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Artist/Band: Tom T. Hall
Lyrics for Song: Subdivision Blues
Lyrics for Album: Storyteller - Poet - Philosopher [Mercury] [1995]



(Tom T. Hall)



Out on the edge of town I bought a two room brick

Moved in as soon as I got the plumbin' all fixed

Making them payments worked my fingers to the bone

Anything I had to do to get myself a home.



There was water in the basement it looked like a swimming pool

The man said son that water'll help to keep your cottage cool

The Welcome Wagon brought me out some sleepin' pills and booze

I got the mean old subdivision blues.



Somebody came and knocked my fence down just the other day

Tore up my yard and hauled my lawnmower away

Shot out my windows with the BB gun

A boxer down the street came by and beat up my son.



So I went out and bought myself a big old German dog

The man behind me saw me and he started raisin' hogs

A nineteen year old girl next door is sunnin' in the nude

I got those mean old subdivision blues.



But I bought my house because it was located near a school

Now a bus comes by and takes my kids to Istanbul

The guy next door just bought his son a brand new saxophone

The man behind me sued him cause his hogs were leavin' home.



My buddy left his wife and now he's livin' in a tent

A hippie sued me cause I did not have a room to rent

They built a trailer park before I had a chance to move

I got them mean old subdivision blues.



--- Instrumental ---



Well, I moved out in the country just as far as I could go

I couldn't even get the Grand Ole Opry on the radio

I guess you know what happened just as soon as I moved in

The man across the valley started clearin' off his land.



The law came out and said that I would have to move my barn

They said the man next door was gonna subdivide his farm

They auctioned off my farm to build the state another school

I got the mean old subdivision blues.



Well, the other night I dreamed I died and I went right straight to hell

I don't know what I did but you know you can never tell

They handed me a key and handed me a little map

They said you got a place to live we'll show you where it's at.



They took me to a two room brick just on the edge of town

With thirty thousand other little houses falling down

A million years to pay it off with payments overdue

It's hell to have the subdivision blues.



Got those mean old subdivision blues...


Album Lyrics: Storyteller - Poet - Philosopher [Mercury] [1995]


Tom T. Hall
"Storyteller - Poet - Philosopher [Mercury] [1995]"


1. That's How I Got to Memphis
2. I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew
3. The Son of Clayton Delaney
4. I'm Forty Now
5. Subdivision Blues
6. One Hundred Children
7. I Can't Dance
8. Hang Them All
9. Turn It on Turn It on Turn It On
10. Strawberry Farms
11. (Margie's At The) Lincoln Park Inn
12. Flat-Footin' It
13. America the Ugly
14. A Million Miles to the City
15. Mama's Got the Catfish Blues
16. Molly and Tenbrooks
17. Magnificent Music Machine
18. I Want to See the Parade
19. Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)
20. I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
21. Hitchhiker
22. I Flew Over Our House Last Night
23. Old Five and Dimers Like Me
24. Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me
25. Pamela Brown