The Price Of Progress
๐ต 777 characters
โฑ๏ธ 3:39 duration
๐ ID: 28513196
๐ Lyrics
Some people have the nerve
To say you get what you deserve
I'm the fourth generation now
To put my back to this mule and plow
We have always found a way
To stand tall or kneel and pray
In the spring of '38
A man came from the TVA
He said, "You'll have to leave from here
We're gonna build a dam next year
Your old farm and valley too
Will be a lake so deep and blue"
The dam was finished up last week
The water makes its silent creep
Yesterday my granddad's grave
Was covered up like Pharaoh's slave
The porch steps by evening's end
Forever will be flooded in
They think that I'm a crazy fool
To sit and wait so calm and cool
And watch the water slowly rise
Through these tired and world-worn eyes
But they don't know that late tonight
I'm gonna plug that dam with dynamite!
To say you get what you deserve
I'm the fourth generation now
To put my back to this mule and plow
We have always found a way
To stand tall or kneel and pray
In the spring of '38
A man came from the TVA
He said, "You'll have to leave from here
We're gonna build a dam next year
Your old farm and valley too
Will be a lake so deep and blue"
The dam was finished up last week
The water makes its silent creep
Yesterday my granddad's grave
Was covered up like Pharaoh's slave
The porch steps by evening's end
Forever will be flooded in
They think that I'm a crazy fool
To sit and wait so calm and cool
And watch the water slowly rise
Through these tired and world-worn eyes
But they don't know that late tonight
I'm gonna plug that dam with dynamite!
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:19.35] Some people have the nerve
[00:22.94] To say you get what you deserve
[00:26.90] I'm the fourth generation now
[00:30.46] To put my back to this mule and plow
[00:34.41] We have always found a way
[00:37.87] To stand tall or kneel and pray
[00:43.83]
[00:49.33] In the spring of '38
[00:52.98] A man came from the TVA
[00:56.61] He said, "You'll have to leave from here
[01:00.34] We're gonna build a dam next year
[01:04.23] Your old farm and valley too
[01:07.82] Will be a lake so deep and blue"
[01:14.66]
[01:26.46] The dam was finished up last week
[01:30.26] The water makes its silent creep
[01:34.25] Yesterday my granddad's grave
[01:37.61] Was covered up like Pharaoh's slave
[01:41.47] The porch steps by evening's end
[01:45.22] Forever will be flooded in
[01:52.52]
[02:30.09] They think that I'm a crazy fool
[02:33.73] To sit and wait so calm and cool
[02:37.52] And watch the water slowly rise
[02:41.47] Through these tired and world-worn eyes
[02:45.09] But they don't know that late tonight
[02:50.10] I'm gonna plug that dam with dynamite!
[03:39.70]
[00:22.94] To say you get what you deserve
[00:26.90] I'm the fourth generation now
[00:30.46] To put my back to this mule and plow
[00:34.41] We have always found a way
[00:37.87] To stand tall or kneel and pray
[00:43.83]
[00:49.33] In the spring of '38
[00:52.98] A man came from the TVA
[00:56.61] He said, "You'll have to leave from here
[01:00.34] We're gonna build a dam next year
[01:04.23] Your old farm and valley too
[01:07.82] Will be a lake so deep and blue"
[01:14.66]
[01:26.46] The dam was finished up last week
[01:30.26] The water makes its silent creep
[01:34.25] Yesterday my granddad's grave
[01:37.61] Was covered up like Pharaoh's slave
[01:41.47] The porch steps by evening's end
[01:45.22] Forever will be flooded in
[01:52.52]
[02:30.09] They think that I'm a crazy fool
[02:33.73] To sit and wait so calm and cool
[02:37.52] And watch the water slowly rise
[02:41.47] Through these tired and world-worn eyes
[02:45.09] But they don't know that late tonight
[02:50.10] I'm gonna plug that dam with dynamite!
[03:39.70]