Lyrics




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
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 this 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 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 and 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
Yeah, it's hell to have the subdivision blues
Got those mean old subdivision blues



Writer(s): Tom T. Hall


Tom T. Hall - Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher
Album Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher
date of release
14-11-1995

1   Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine
2   Magnificent Music Machine
3   The Million Miles to the City
4   I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew
5   The Hitchhiker
6   Ballad Of Forty Dollars
7   I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
8   Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On
9   Strawberry Farms
10   Watergate Blues
11   I Want To See The Parade
12   100 Children
13   The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
14   The Son Of Clayton Delaney
15   The Old Side Of Town
16   I Can't Dance
17   Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)
18   A Week In A Country Jail
19   Spokane Motel Blues
20   Homecoming
21   Ravishing Ruby
22   Down At the Mall
23   Fox On the Run
24   Shoeshine Man
25   Flat - Footin' It
26   Old Five And Dimers Like Me
27   Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me
28   More About John Henry
29   Give Her My Best - 1995 Box Set Version
30   Pamela Brown
31   I Flew Over Our House Last Night
32   Molly And Tenbrooks
33   The Monkey That Became President
34   That's How I Got To Memphis
35   Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
36   I Like Beer
37   That Song Is Driving Me Crazy
38   Salute To A Switchblade
39   Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
40   Subdivision Blues
41   America The Ugly
42   Hang Them All (Get The Guilty)
43   Levi Jones - 1995 Box Set Version
44   Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)
45   I'm Forty Now
46   Deal
47   Me And Jesus




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