So Long, Lindytown

So Long LIndytown

Intro (Fiddle-first half of Verse), (mandolin-2nd half of Chorus)

Verse 1
Boone County West Virginia, near the valley;s crown
I proudly mad my home there in a place called Lindytown
My daddy was a miner, working; deep under the ground
’til rich men found another way, to take the coal from Lindytown

Chorus
Gone is the school, gone are the church and the steeple
Gone are the houses and the store, gone are all the people
with dozers and shovels they knocked the whole thing down
This place had a name, only memories remain, so long Lindytown.

Break (Mando verse-first half) (Banjo chorus-second half)

Verse 2
The stories stick in my head, I remember of sound
There’s silence now, not much to see what’s left of Lindytown
I sometimes visit daddy, resting six feet under the ground
The old graveyard is the only sign there was life in Lindytown.

Chorus
Gone is the school, gone are the church and the steeple
Gone are the houses and the store, gone are all the people
with dozers and shovels they knocked the whole thing down
This place had a name, only memories remain, so long Lindytown.

Break (Mando and dobro), 1 measure extra, bringing in band (it may be Fiddle)

Chorus
Gone is the school, gone are the church and the steeple
Gone are the houses and the store, gone are all the people
with dozers and shovels they knocked the whole thing down
This place had a name, only memories remain, so long Lindytown.