Somebody Bought My Old Home Town

Somebody Bought My Old Home Town - David Ferguson/Jack Clement/Vince Matthews

I used to like to listen to the tales of the old men

Who sat around the old park square

But the piddlers and the whittlers and the checker boards're gone

There's a brand new office building there

And the street known as maple is much wider now

And there are no maples to be found

Since consolidated whozit subdivision of universal what you call it bought my old hometown

There used to be good fishing down along the shady mill stream

You'd see em as they jumped and played

But the blue gill and the croppie and the old mill made way

For chemical division section a

And They pulled down the flowers planted by the ladies club

And took the city founder statue down

Since consolidated whozit subdivision of universal what you call it bought my old hometown

And the picture show has had it where i used to spend my saturdays

With jean and roy and reson and pop along

Now the brotherhood of gismo fixers local 102 is making it their temporary home

They cut down the maples along maple street

And of course the pool hall came down

Since consolidated whozit subdivision of universal what you call it bought my old hometown