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BlackTop Road
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Angela Easterling
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They’ve got telephone poles where our trees had been
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They ripped up our pasture, put a sidewalk in
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Yeah, the big voice of Progress said, “You’ve gotta go!”
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“We’re gonna lay us a black-top road, We’re gonna lay us a black-top road”
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Well they tore down the house my great granddaddy built
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Where my grandpa was born and my Mama took her first steps
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But nobody cared about the stories it told
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The spot was just right for a black-top road
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Was the perfect spot for a black-top road
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Black-top road, black top road, they’re gonna lay them a black-top road
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Don’t you try to complain, you just do as you’re told
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Get out the way of that black-top road
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Grandma planted these flowers back when she was my age
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And they still bloom here every year, ‘though she’s gone to her grave
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But they won’t be here tomorrow and that I know
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They’re gonna pave ‘em right over with a Black-top Road
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Cover ‘em over with a black-top road. We cried, “This can’t happen in the U.S.A”
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They said, “You’d better shut up or we’ll take your farm away”
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But then they’d thought they’d be friendly
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Maybe throw us a bone: They slapped our family name on that Black-Top Road
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Now our family name’s on that Black-Top Road
Angela Easterling "Black Top Road"
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