Tennessee Paroles

She said you can see they way this town's gone
By the boards on every door

'Cause the company came and it went
And I guess they reached their goal
Used to be a beautiful mountain here
Now there's just a pile of coal
And everywhere you look you can see
The countryside they stole
The biggest tree in this old forest
Is a telephone pole

She said this used to be a company town
Not so very long ago
Now the most common car that you see
Has a U-Haul trailer in tow
It's so sad to watch a town
Grow up just for it to fall apart
To think of all the good and the hard times we had
It's enough to break my heart Now there's just a pile of coal
And everywhere you look you can see
The countryside they stole
The biggest tree in this old forest
Is a telephone pole

The only thing worse than the company being here
Was watching it say goodbye
You know we had to fight do damn hard
Just to get a little piece of the pie
But there's nothing left here for me now
But memories and things gone wrong
Don't know where I'll go
All I know is I'm gone

'Cause the company came and it went
And I guess they reached their goal
Used to be a beautiful mountain here
Now there's just a pile of coal
And everywhere you look you can see
The countryside they stole
The biggest tree in this old forest
Is a telephone pole