[Spoken word] Back in Eighteen-Twenty-Nine 'fore the dirty clock tower And the big hotel And the chimneys And the wharves and the smell of the city When it was still a village With green hills Rolling ridges And the river had water The creek had a frog And the woods had a deer And the forest had a log And the houses had people And the people had eyes And the eyes had a sparkle And the sparkle had a reason To be there The street lights There weren't any 'Cause the streets weren't paved And the cobbles There weren't any 'Cause the cobblers all left With their noses turned away At the changes in the skyline And the mayor He got greedy With his crooked accountant And his crooked politician friends from out of town Who came in and convinced him To tear down the village and build a big city With factories and buildings And houses for a million And the million had kids And the kids had kids And the kids' kids had more kids And then we came along And when I look around I wonder How can you live here? [Spoken word] Where's the sand dunes Where's the seagulls? Where's the boardwalk Where's the seashells? Where's the cool breeze blowing Bringing all the beach smells Up the hill Where's the cottage? Where's the cool creek Where's the woods? Where's the woodpecker And the birds In the trees with the squirrels? Where's old John on the porch With his whittling knife and his rocking chair? Where's the 50-cent bottle of soda pop And the little town square With the flag in the middle And the jail and the church and the two-lane road With the covered bridge And the rolling hills and the hills with the frogs And the frogs in the creek And the creek with the kids And the kids with their dads And mom and dad had a clue About what they were doing With their lives And their wives And their husbands And their kids too And I wonder How can you live here? [Chorus] And I don't And I don't And I don't And I don't
