Lyrics

Look at me now, ain't I an old man
As I walk the streets once more of my old hometown
You can't go back that's what they say
And I can barely recognize this place
Though I lived here all my life so it seems so strange

Butchertown Kentucky, back about 1933
Nobody had nothing but a hand to give
Though the times were hard well we still got by
The river was clean as the clear bluie sky
You took a man at his word that was life on the riverside

Rise up Ohio and let her rage
Bury this town deep and start all over again
You can't swim in this river cna't fish these waters now
And I think it's shame what they've done to my old home town

Something started changing, you know I can't quite pin it down
About the time the first strip mine barge pulled into town
I stood on the place where I stand today
I watched teh river turn color to an ugly gray
As they loaded her twelve ton deep and just pulled away.

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