Two Dollar Novels-Darden Smith

[ti:Two Dollar Novels] [ar:Darden Smith] [al:Darden Smith] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.39]Two Dollar Novels - Darden Smith [00:02.98] [00:11.24]I turned right on first [00:14.18] [00:15.66]Left on white oak [00:17.13] [00:18.64]Back to my old neighborhood [00:22.06] [00:23.15]I saw old doc Randolph [00:26.16] [00:27.43]Morning shore [00:28.61] [00:30.25]He's kept it up 'bout the best he could [00:33.28] [00:35.30]And Evelyn his wife of thirtytwo years [00:38.39]She smiled as I drove by [00:41.02]And she waved from her front porch screen [00:45.71] [00:46.84]She went back to reading her two dollar novel [00:52.68] [00:53.81]Playing with her wedding ring [00:57.30] [00:59.11]A few houses needed paint [01:01.48] [01:02.28]A few gates were unhinged [01:04.67] [01:05.45]But generally [01:07.38]The place looked the same [01:09.27] [01:11.24]The driveways were full of bikes and buick sedans [01:16.91] [01:17.44]Things any good American would claim [01:21.23] [01:23.81]All them other lovers [01:26.02]That married for cover [01:29.08]They were out for the sacred nightly stroll [01:34.07] [01:35.19]They were wishing they were characters in two dollar novels [01:41.60]Wishing for their weight in gold [01:45.56] [01:49.13]Oooooh [01:52.56] [01:54.22]Oooooh [01:58.54] [02:01.09]Oooooh [02:03.24] [02:23.15]Now Mary Elizabeth [02:25.45] [02:26.13]She's my high school sweetheart [02:28.65] [02:29.88]She married my best high school friend [02:33.41] [02:34.99]He manages the hardware store [02:37.93] [02:38.71]She became a nurse [02:40.34] [02:41.20]And I became a memory to them [02:45.07] [02:46.91]And all my other buddies [02:49.51]And just got lost in outer space [02:53.12]And they ran off [02:54.71]And served their country well [02:57.33] [02:58.94]They're all fighting in a war of [03:03.10]Two dollar novels [03:04.82] [03:05.57]Where only [03:06.49] [03:07.03]The toughest live to tell [03:09.26] [03:10.70]So I turned right on white oak [03:14.33] [03:15.09]Left on first [03:17.17] [03:18.29]Out of that old neighborhood [03:21.76] [03:23.33]I left doctor and Mrs Randolph [03:25.86] [03:26.48]Sipping ice tea on their sun porch [03:28.96] [03:29.48]Wondering if I'd ever come to any good [03:33.86] [03:35.25]And on a thousand shady streets [03:38.41]A thousand other towns [03:41.36]Now people lord they're doing just the same [03:45.49] [03:47.12]They're all living their lives like two dollar novels [03:53.97]And wondering if I'd the world is so insane [03:57.50] [03:59.26]They're all living their lives like two dollar novels [04:05.67]And wondering why there's nothing left to gain