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Small Town

from The Waitress by Jonathan Byrd

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This here used to be a small town, you could walk from east to west
there were dirt roads and woods in my teens
but they paved the roads for people and laid the woods to rest
with big orange barrels and earth-movin machines

this highway used to be a hay field and woods beyond the hill
and we’d go fishin in the creek below
folks came to the south land to hear the whooper will,
but how it really was, they’ll never know

somebody sold the meadow; somebody sold the woods
now I can’t afford to live in my old neighborhood
it used to be you could not keep a secret in this town,
but in a city full of strangers, your secrets are safe and sound

Go ask the governer; I tell you what he’ll say
“we did it for the people of this great state”
not many of those people are still livin here today
except for the ones who owned the real estate

they all sold the meadows; they all sold the woods
now I can’t afford to live in my old neighborhood
it used to be you could not keep a secret in this town,
but in a city full of strangers, your secrets are safe and sound

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from The Waitress, released January 1, 2003

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Jonathan Byrd Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Preacher's kid, Gulf War veteran, award-winning songwriter, Youtuber, teacher, and creativity coach from North Carolina.

“One of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years. ” — Chicago Tribune

“...a folk singer with the heart of a rock 'n' roll band.” — K. Oliver, Free Times. ... more

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