Story Behind The Song
Watching Vermont change and loosing it's character to mini marts and shopping malls
Song Description
Song about progress and development taking away some of the good life. Lamenting the breakdown of small town America
| Song Length |
2:56 |
Genre |
Country - General |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Relaxed, Poignant |
Subject |
Meat, Energy |
| Similar Artists |
Arlo Guthrie, Hank Williams |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
I like country stores with crooked floors and old men on the front porch
and one lane bridges on a rural route
I like to drive for miles and miles and never see no balck top
To me that's what this country life's about
I like the old ways, but they're changing every day
I like to walk down a street filled with people that I know
and get my coffee from a waitress down at the local cafe
I like the old ways, I don't want to see then go
Seeing is believing but the new ways are decieving
Newer isn't better to me
The life I love is leaving me like an old time picture show
I like the old ways I don't want to see them go
I like the old ways, watch the children as they play
I hope they can know the good life that I know
loke swiming in cool water and lying in the sunshine
I like the old ways I don't want to see them go