What’s Left Of A Small Town

By Brantley Gilbert

On A Modern Day Prodigal Son

Released on October 27, 2009

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[Verse 1]

Grand daddy used to take me

Down town to the kinneys

That's where all the old men go to reminisce

Ramble on about history dust off some old stories

Look back at the life they've come to miss

I swear sometimes I can almost see

A picture of this small town back in 1943

Everything's black and white

And there's dirt on the street

It don't look at all what I'm seeing today


[Chorus]

Riding around

What's left of a small town

Making my rounds

Waving "hi" to everyone around

It's in my blood it's where I settle down

Lay me in the ground under what's left of a small town


[Verse 2]

You can still get a hair cut for less than ten bucks

If you go down to buds right off the square

It's been almost 10 years since they closed down that old mill

That's what this whole town was built around

There's a couple old dirt roads

Left down by old potts' farm

We used to throw down hard out there man we never did no harm

Well the counties offered thousands, man that old Potts won't give in

There development stops right at that barbed wire fence


[Chorus]

Riding around

What's left of a small town

Making my rounds

Waving "hi" to everyone around

It's in my blood it's where I settle down

Lay me in the ground under what's left of a small town

Riding around

What's left of a small town

Making my rounds

Waving "hi" to everyone around

It's in my blood it's where I settle down

Lay me in the ground under what's left of a small town