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Lonesome County

You got your dead train tracks,
This used to be a railroad town.
You got your river runnin’ muddy,
It eats away at solid ground.
You got your funeral procession
Every Tuesday, man, they never let you down.

Chorus:
Where’s my baby? Hey, where’s my baby?
I wake up swimmin’ in a pool of cold sweat,
Screamin’ “Where is my baby?”
I’m in a Motel 6 out in the middle of the sticks
In Lonesome County.

They tell me Truman came through,
It was in nineteen hundred forty-eight.
One time Geraldo Rivera asked directions
Gettin’ to the Interstate.
And me, my car broke down,
They can’t get the part and so I gotta wait.

repeat chorus

I guess the Klan moved in
About the time that all the jobs moved out.
Yeah them men in uniform
Just make the townies all twist and shout.
I aint’ whistlin’ Dixie,
It’s the heartland, there ain’t no doubt.

repeat chorus

I don’t mind the dead animal heads
Down at the local cafe.
I don’t mind the velvet Elvises
Or humor from the local DJ.
But all these pictures of McCarthy
Got me thinkin’ that I better get away.

repeat chorus

Appears On:
Ghost Stories from Lonesome County – 1994
Ghost Stories from Lonesome County – 1994
Live at the Pumphouse – 1999
Live at the Pumphouse – 1999
The Medicine Tribute – 2012
The Medicine Tribute – 2012

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“Lonesome County” on Ghost Stories from Lonesome County

© and ℗ 1994, 1999, 2012 Marques Bovre


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Live from Lonesome County

A Special Archival CD/DVD Collection

Live from the Crystal Corner Bar
March 5, 1994

The complete Ghost Stories from Lonesome County CD release party (on two CDs)

Live on John and Gordy’s Media World
March 1, 1994

A seven-song set from cable access TV (on DVD)

Plus: The Lonesome County music video

All profits from the sale of this set go to Haiti Allies.

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