Lyrics Uncle Frank - Drive-By Truckers

Uncle Frank - Drive-By Truckers
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Date of issue: 29.10.2015
Record label: ATO
Song language: English

Uncle Frank

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 machinery 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 no one else would want
'Til 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 in his 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
Water-ski
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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Artist lyrics: Drive-By Truckers