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Drown This Town Lyrics by Claybank

No Escape

2018

[Verse 1]
I can still see the dust fly behind that Cadillac
The pathway walk for many years to get to our old shack
Out stepped a sharp dressed man with his face as cold as stone
The tall dark man said 'Excuse me Son, is your daddy home?
[Pre-Chorus]
Sorrow filled my Daddy's face when he opened up that door
Almost like that day we lost my brother in the war
The tall dark man stood firmly there with a cheque book in his hand
And sat and said as much 'Mister, we're going to close the dam'
[Chorus]
You can take the wasted years, all the blood, the sweat, the tears
And the heartaches that it took to build this home
All the days of work enslaved and put it all in a water grave
And leave the valley and everything I've known
Well they might flood this place a half mile deep
But they'll never drown this town
[Verse 2]
We worked our fingers to the bone from sun-up to sundown
The days were long, the work was hard in that Johnstone County town
With next to nothing on the cheque that took away our land
We watched it all just slip away right from our [?]
[Interlude]
[Pre-Chorus]
Desperately we grabbed up everything that we could find
Trying to save the memories of the life we'd leave behind
Well in 48 they closed those gates as the evening sky turned red
We watched the valley disappear as my daddy turned and said-
[Chorus]
You can take the wasted years, all the blood, the sweat, the tears
And the heartaches that it took to build this home
All the days of work enslaved and put it all in a water grave
And leave the valley and everything I've known
Well they might flood this place a half mile deep
But they'll never drown this town
Well they might flood this place a half mile deep
But they'll never drown this town
Credits
Claybank

Claybank

About “Drown This Town” by Claybank

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"Drown This Town" appears on "No Escape" in 2018.

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