Drive By Truckers Uncle Frank

Đóng góp: They powered up the city with hydro-electric juiceNow we got more electricity we can ever useThey flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved outBut they got paid so there aint nothin else to think about
Some of them made their living cutting the timber downSnaking it one log at a time up the hill and into townT.V.A. had a way to clear it off real fastLots of men and machinery build a dam and drown the rest
Uncle Frank lived down the park, down on Cedar CreekBought fifteen acres when he got back home from overseasFifteen rocky acres, figured no one else would wantTill all that backed up water had to have some place to go

Uncle Frank couldnt read or writeNever held down a job or needed one in his lifeThey assured him thered be work for him in town building carsIts already going down
The cars never came to town and the roads never got builtAnd the price of all that power kept on going straight uphillAnd banks around the hollow sold for lake-front propertyWhere doctors, lawyers, and musicians teach their kids to water ski
Uncle Frank couldnt read or writeSo there was no note or letter found where he diedJust a rope around his neckAnd the kitchen table turned on its side