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Uncle Frank
Drive By Truckers

They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice.

Now we got more electricity than we can ever use.

They flooded out the hollow

And all the folks down there moved out, but they

Got paid so there ain't nothin' else to think about.

Some of them made their living cutting the timber down,

Snaking it one log at

A time up the hill and into town.

T.V.A. had a way to clear it off real fast.

Lots of men and machinary,

Build a dam and drown the rest.

Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek,

Bought fifteen acres when he

Got back home from overseas.

Fifteen rocky acres, figured noone else would

Want, till all that backed up water had to have some place to go.

Uncle Frank couldn't read or write.

Never held down a job, or needed one inhis life.

They assured him there'd be work for him in town building cars.

It's already going down.

The cars never came to town

And the roads never got built and the price of all

That power kept on going straight uphill.

The banks around the hollow sold for

Lake-front property where Doctors,

Lawyers, and

Musicians teach their kids to waterski.

Uncle Frank couldn't read or write

So there was no note or letter found where

He died. Just a rope around his neck

And the kitchen table turned on it's side


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