Subdivision Blues Lyrics

The song Subdivision Blues is performed by Tom T. Hall in the album named Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher in the year 1995 .



Out on the edge of town I bought a two room brick
Moved in as soon as I got the plumbin' all fixed
Making them payments worked my fingers to the bone
Anything I had to do to get myself a home

There was water in the basement, it looked like a swimming pool
The man said, "Son that water'll help to keep your cottage cool"
The Welcome Wagon brought me out some sleepin' pills and booze
I got the mean old subdivision blues

Somebody came and knocked my fence down just the other day
Tore up my yard and hauled my lawnmower away
Shot out my windows with the BB gun
A boxer down the street came by and beat up my son

So I went out and bought myself a big old German dog
The man behind me saw me and he started raisin' hogs
A nineteen year old girl next door is sunnin' in the nude
I got those mean old subdivision blues

But I bought my house because it was located near a school
Now a bus comes by and takes my kids to Istanbul
The guy next door just bought his son a brand new saxophone
The man behind me sued him 'cause his hogs were leavin' home

My buddy left his wife and now he's livin' in a tent
A hippie sued me 'cause I did not have a room to rent
They built a trailer park before I had a chance to move
I got them mean old subdivision blues

Well I moved out in the country just as far as I could go
I couldn't even get the Grand Ole Opry on the radio
I guess you know what happened just as soon as I moved in
The man across the valley started clearin' off this land

The law came out and said that I would have to move my barn
They said the man next door was gonna subdivide his farm
They auctioned off my farm to build the state another school
I got the mean old subdivision blues

Well other night I dreamed I died and I went right straight to Hell
I don't know what I did but you know you can never tell
They handed me a key and handed me a little map
They said, "You got a place to live and we'll show you where it's at"

They took me to a two room brick just on the edge of town
With thirty thousand other little houses falling down
A million years to pay it off with payments overdue
Yeah, it's hell to have the subdivision blues
Got those mean old subdivision blues



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

Subdivision Blues