Lyrics:

This here used to be a small town, you could walk from east to west
There were dirt roads and woods in my teens
But they paved the roads for people and laid the woods to rest
With big orange barrels and earth-movin' machines

This highway used to be a hay field and woods beyond the hill
And we'd go fishin' in the creek below
Folks came to the south land to hear the whooper will
But how it really was, they'll never know

Somebody sold the meadow; somebody sold the woods
Now I can't afford to live in my old neighborhood
It used to be you could not keep a secret in this town
But in a city full of strangers, your secrets are safe and sound

Go ask the governor; I tell you what he'll say
'We did it for the people of this great state'
Not many of those people are still livin' here today
Except for the ones who owned the real estate

They all sold the meadows; they all sold the woods
Now I can't afford to live in my old neighborhood
It used to be you could not keep a secret in this town
But in a city full of strangers, your secrets are safe and sound