Lost Town feat. James Kee

Sure am glad to meet you, Doubleday's my name
First time I been back here since 1938
When they flooded this here valley, covered up my childhood home

Great granddaddy settled here in 1863
Plowed these fields and raised the crop that fed his family
The stonewall that you're looking at is all that still remains
.....of life way back then

Lost town, lost town
They went & tore it down, Lost town

I was only 9 years old when we got the news
Government had sealed our fate, there was nothin' we could do
On the very ground we're standing on, they'd build (dam) that reservoir

Sittin' in the barber shop I heard an old man say
Every building on these streets must be hauled away
....Our little church house, the school, and the general store
Now they will be no more

Lost town, lost town
Now its nowhere to be found, Lost town

We watched as the wrecking ball took down the old home place
Each and every one of us tears streaming down our face
Til there was nothing left but a big hole in the ground

Funny how your mind works the older that you get
Things you remember, things you forget
You know the worst of it all is to be taken from your kin
Well knowin' .... you can't go home again

Lost town, lost town
They went & tore it down
Now it's nowhere to be found, Lost town