WOW!
I always loved Chrissy Hynde and The Pretenders.
Probably my favorite is:
My City Was Gone
I went back to Ohio but my city was gone.
There was no train station, there was no downtown.
South Howard had disappeared,
all my favorite places.
My city had been pulled down,
reduced to parking spaces.
Hey, ho, where’d you go, Ohio?
Well, I went back to Ohio but my family was gone.
I stood on the back porch, there was nobody home.
I was stunned and amazed, my childhood memories
slowly swirled past like the wind through the trees.
Hey, ho, where’d you go, Ohio?
I went back to Ohio but my pretty countryside
had been paved down the middle
by a government that had no pride.
The farms of Ohio had been replaced by shopping malls
and Muzak filled the air from Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls.
Hey, ho, where’d you go, Ohio?
Namaste!
Jim |
