9.

Million Miles To The City

Tom T. Hall

© Newkeys Music, BMI

Yeah I remember it now we were kids back then living down on the farm
We were told that the city could only bring us harm
How far is the city somebody said you know that's a great big town
And Barbara said why it's a million miles and the story got around

It's a million miles to the city from the hills and the valleys we know
It's a million miles to the city and some day we all wanna go

There was a town near by but a town is a town and A city well that's somethin' else
Our daddy had been to a city but he never was much help
Why the buildings're taller than oak trees ah but we knew better than that
Ain't nobody could climb that high the cities were wide and flat

It's a million miles to the city...

Well now time has passed and we have grown and traveled far and wide
The cities have changed the kids we were we see it in each other's eyes
Lord I'd love to go back to those hills again to the boy I used to be
Where the leaves in the wind and the whippoorwills were part of the land like me

It's a million miles to the city...
It's a million miles to the city...

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