They Covered Up The Old Swimmin Hole

They Covered Up The Old Swimmin Hole - Country Express

Boring through the mountains by passing the towns

Interstate ninety is a sight to behold

But that monument to progress and engineering skill

Has covered up the old swimming hole

Thirty feet straight up from where the old hole stood

They sell twenty kinds of icecream and the food is good

But it never can compare with the food for the soul

You could get for a dip in the old swimming hole

Oh the old swimming hole her cool waters ran deep

Felt good to a boy with mud on his feet

And I'm wishing these days I could strip to my soul

And go for a dip in the old swimming hole

A symbol of our great and affluent society

Interstate ninety fulfillment of our goals

But that masterpiece of human ingenuity

Has covered up the old swimming hole

Gone the wooden schoolhouse the old country store

The winding dirt road that's winding no more

And the old swimming hole hears

The sound of speeding wheels

Entombed beneath a blanket of concrete and steel

Oh the old swimming hole her cool waters ran deep

Felt good to a boy with mud on his feet

And I'm wishing these days I could strip to my soul

And go for a dip in the old swimming hole

And go for a dip in the old swimming hole