C. Daniel Boling - This Town Has No Café (featuring Tom Paxton)

©2023 Tom Paxton – Bristow Songs / SESAC & Daniel Boling – Perfectly Stable Music / ASCAP

This town has no café
They closed her down and moved away
No place now to have a cup
And ask your neighbors what’s been up
To hear it all and have your say
This town has no café
Blueberry pancakes passed the test
Maybe the coffee was not the best
But we all went there anyway
That’s how we’d start most every day
Something precious slipped away
This town has no café
Now where will the politicians go
To kiss the babies and run their show
The very finest women and men
If they win, we’ll never see ‘em again
Till next campaign when they pass this way
But this town has no café
Now what’s a town with no café
How’s it even here today
You’d think it would have blown away
And I expect it will
We’d sit and chat for hours and hours
In the shadow of the water tower
It wasn’t much but it was ours
Then it went over the hill
This town has no café
They closed her down and moved away
There’s not a lot left here today
This town has no café