A Million Miles To The City-Tom T. Hall

[ti:A Million Miles To The City] [ar:Tom T. Hall] [al:In Search Of A Song] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Million Miles To The City - Tom T. Hall [00:11.38]Yeah, I remember it now, [00:12.57] [00:13.50]We were kids back then [00:14.69] [00:15.82]Livin' down on the farm [00:18.57] [00:19.82]We were told that the city [00:22.19] [00:23.25]Could only bring us harm [00:26.07] [00:27.69]"How far is the city?", somebody said [00:30.13] [00:31.57]And, "Oh, that's a great big town" [00:33.69] [00:35.75]And Barbara said, [00:37.07]"Why, it's a million miles" [00:39.38]And the story got around [00:41.47] [00:42.97]It's a million miles to the city [00:45.66] [00:46.85]From the hills and valleys we know [00:49.29] [00:50.79]It's a million miles to the city [00:53.41] [00:54.48]And someday we all wanna go [00:57.35] [01:00.41]There was a town nearby [01:02.04] [01:03.10]But a town is a town [01:04.91]And the city well, that's something else [01:07.91] [01:09.16]Our daddy had been to a city [01:11.22] [01:12.60]But he never was much help [01:15.10] [01:17.16]Why the buildings are taller than Oak trees [01:19.89] [01:21.02]Ah, but we knew better than that [01:22.77] [01:24.96]Ain't nobody could climb that high [01:27.65] [01:28.71]The cities were wide and flat [01:31.33] [01:32.40]It's a million miles to the city [01:35.02] [01:36.21]From the hills and valleys we know [01:38.71] [01:40.27]It's a million miles to the city [01:42.90] [01:43.77]And someday we all wanna go [01:46.71] [01:50.40]Well, now time has passed and we have grown [01:54.33]And traveled far and wide [01:56.96] [01:58.52]The cities have changed the kids we were [02:01.46] [02:02.34]We see it in each others eyes [02:04.77] [02:06.15]But I'd love to go back to those hills again [02:09.71] [02:10.21]To the boy I used to be [02:12.84] [02:14.28]Where the leaves and the wind [02:16.77]And the whippoorwills [02:18.78]Were part of the land like me [02:21.09] [02:22.21]It's a million miles to the city [02:24.96] [02:26.03]From the hills and valleys we know [02:28.90] [02:29.46]It's a million miles to the city [02:32.84] [02:34.03]And someday we all wanna go [02:36.59] [02:37.90]It's a million miles to the city [02:40.59] [02:42.03]From the hills and valleys we know [02:44.84] [02:45.84]It's a million miles to the city