I have seen this issue first hand all over the country. The unintended consequence of progress

and the changing landscape of the American small town. Thank you all in advance for the

listens and comments.



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Beginning Of The End


Walmart came and they boarded up the windows and the doors

The main street of my childhood is not there anymore

Now we can’t afford the groceries and we can’t afford the gas

No one seems to smile much No one ever laughs


I Used to walk a mile to church cause breakfast there was good

past billboards full of lawyers and piles of firewood

I grew up here then went away had to see around the bend

Now I pray that what I see is not the beginning of the end



People round here don’t like to change it’s not what they’re about

Every time they put a stoplight in the next day they’d shoot it out

The clerk down at the Citgo said it’s really kind of sad

If I moved the beef jerky around the whole town would get mad


I Used to walk a mile to church cause breakfast there was good

past billboards full of lawyers and piles of firewood

I grew up here then went away had to see around the bend

Now I pray that what I see is not the beginning of the end


There’s an IGA on one end of town VFW on the other

The graveyard next to the Pizza Hut’s where they buried my dear Mother

Old men in caps and overalls no longer sit and talk

the hands don’t move like they once did on the courthouse clock


I Used to walk a mile to church cause breakfast there was good

past billboards full of lawyers and piles of firewood

I grew up here then went away had to see around the bend

Now I pray that what I see is not the beginning of the end