A Million Miles To The City Lyrics

Yeah, I remember it now, we were kids back then
Livin' down on the farm
We were told that the city
Could only bring us harm

"How far is the city?", somebody said
And, "Oh, that's a great big town"
And Barbara said, "Why, it's a million miles"
And the story got around

It's a million miles to the city
From the hills and valleys we know
It's a million miles to the city
And someday we all wanna go

There was a town nearby but a town is a town
And the city well, that's something else
Our daddy had been to a city
But he never was much help

Why the buildings are taller than Oak trees
Ah, but we knew better than that
Ain't nobody could climb that high
The cities were wide and flat

It's a million miles to the city
From the hills and valleys we know
It's a million miles to the city
And someday we all wanna go

Well, now time has pa*sed and we have grown
And traveled far and wide
The cities have changed the kids we were
We see it in each others eyes

But I'd love to go back to those hills again
To the boy I used to be
Where the leaves and the wind and the whippoorwills
Were part of the land like me

It's a million miles to the city
From the hills and valleys we know
It's a million miles to the city
And someday we all wanna go

It's a million miles to the city
From the hills and valleys we know
It's a million miles to the city
And someday we all wanna go

Tom T. Hall - Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher

Nov 1995

1. Magnificent Music Machine
2. A Million Miles To The City
3. I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew
4. The Hitch-Hiker
5. Ballad Of Forty Dollars
6. I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
7. Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On
8. Strawberry Farms
9. Watergate Blues
10. I Want To See The Parade
11. 100 Children
12. The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
13. The Son Of Clayton Delaney
14. The Old Side Of Town
15. I Can't Dance
16. Last Of The Drifters
17. Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)
18. A Week In A Country Jail
19. Spokane Motel Blues
20. Homecoming
21. Hello, We're Lonely
22. Down At The Mall
23. Fox On The Run
24. Shoeshine Man
25. Flat-Footin' It
26. Old Five And Dimers Like Me
27. Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me
28. More About John Henry
29. Give Her My Best
30. Pamela Brown
31. I Flew Over Our House Last Night
32. Molly And Tenbrooks
33. The Monkey That Became President
34. That's How I Got To Memphis
35. Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
36. Day Drinkin'
37. Salute To A Switchblade
38. Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
39. Subdivision Blues
40. America The Ugly
41. Hang Them All (Get The Guilty)
42. Levi Jones
43. Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)
44. I'm Forty Now
45. Me And Jesus