Town Farm

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Say goodbye to the old Town Farm
Ain't never going back again
Say goodbye to the old Town Farm
Pull the trigger down around the bend

He moved into the poor house when the mill shut down
With his wife, five children on the outskirts of town
She got up and left the table, walked straight out the door
He picked his crying baby boy up off the cold linoleum floor

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The day that he went missing, been a year now come this fall
He wept bitter tears for the year now he doesn't weep at all
It left a white stripe on his finger when he pawned his wedding ring
He wouldn't take a handout for the shame that it would bring

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When the welfare folks came knocking was when the nightmare would begin
This ain't no place for the children, we have to take them in
All alone in the big house, his shotgun on the wall
He heard the angel's voices and he left to heed the call