They Covered Up the Old Swimming Hole Lyrics

Boring through the mountains by-pa*sing the towns
Interstate 90 is a sight to behold
But that monument to progress and engineering skill
Has covered up the old swimmin' hole
Thirty feet straight up from where the old hole stood
They sell twenty kinds of icecream and the food is good
But it never can compare with the food for the soul
You could get for a dip in the old swimmin' hole
Oh the old swimmin' hole her cool waters ran deep
Felt good to a boy with mud on his feet
And I'm wishing these days I could strip to my soul
And go for a dip in the old swimmin' hole
[ harmonica ]
A symbol of our great and affluent society Interstate 90 fulfillment of our goals
But that masterpiece of human ingenuity has covered up the old swimmin' hole
Gone the wooden schoolhouse the old country store
The winding dirt road that's winding no more
And the old swimmin' hole hears the sound of speeding wheels
Entombed beneath a blanket of concrete and steel
Oh the old swimmin' hole...

Bobby Bare - Bird Named Yesterday/Talk Me Some Sense

Oct 2006

1. Bird Named Yesterday
2. Recitation
3. Somebody Bought My Old Home Town
4. Ode to the Little Brown Shack out Back
5. Day the Saw Mill Closed Down
6. Air Conditioner Song
7. I've Got a Thing About Trains
8. Old Gang's Gone
9. They Covered Up the Old Swimming Hole
10. Church in the Wildwood
11. Passin' Through
12. You Can't Stop the Wild Wind from Blowing
13. Got Leavin' on Her Mind
14. Long Black Veil
15. Heaven Help My Soul
16. Talk Me Some Sense
17. It Ain't Me Babe
18. All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
19. What Color (Is a Man)
20. Little Bit Later on Down the Line [Single Version]
21. Salt Lake City
22. (For a While) We Helped Each Other Out
23. When I've Learned
24. Sandy's Crying Again
25. When Am I Ever Gonna Settle Down
26. Don't Do Like I Done Son
27. Law Is for the Protection of the People
28. If There's Not a Hell (There Ought to Be)
29. Town That Broke My Heart