Somebody Bought My Old Home Town-David Ferguson

[ti:Somebody Bought My Old Home Town] [ar:David Ferguson] [al:David Ferguson] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Somebody Bought My Old Home Town - David Ferguson [00:06.38]I used to like to listen to the tales of the old men [00:11.13] [00:11.67]Who sat around the old park square [00:14.80] [00:16.63]But the piddlers and the whittlers and the checker boards're gone [00:21.09] [00:22.17]There's a brand new office building there [00:25.08] [00:26.97]And the street known as maple is much wider now [00:31.39] [00:32.21]And there are no maples to be found [00:35.75] [00:37.00]Since consolidated whozit subdivision of universal what you call it bought my old hometown [00:46.51] [00:53.16]There used to be good fishing down along the shady mill stream [00:58.01]You'd see em as they jumped and played [01:01.68] [01:03.24]But the blue gill and the croppie and the old mill made way [01:08.06]For chemical division section a [01:12.24] [01:13.50]And They pulled down the flowers planted by the ladies club [01:18.03] [01:18.56]And took the city founder statue down [01:22.86] [01:23.44]Since consolidated whozit subdivision of universal what you call it bought my old hometown [01:32.40] [01:39.33]And the picture show has had it where i used to spend my saturdays [01:43.66] [01:44.60]With jean and roy and reson and pop along [01:48.01] [01:49.68]Now the brotherhood of gismo fixers local 102 is making it their temporary home [01:58.35] [02:00.04]They cut down the maples along maple street [02:04.53] [02:05.24]And of course the pool hall came down [02:09.31] [02:10.19]Since consolidated whozit subdivision of universal what you call it bought my old hometown