Oh, Susquehanna!
Defiance, Ohio
The Great Depression

   C (x32010@1)                                                AmWe (x02210@1)walk at the paths at the banks of the mighty Susquehanna
         C (x32010@1)                                        Amwith (x02210@1)our feet made muddy by your tributaries that trickle their way to the Chesapeake. 
             Am (x02210@1)	    CIt's (x32010@1)like we follow I-83 down to harbor cities with strip malls and tar-mac
Am (x02210@1)                            Cpeople (x32010@1)swirling and teeming. It seemed so exciting, but now it seems like such a blight.

C (x32010@1)   Am (x02210@1)C (x32010@1)                           AmI (x02210@1)grew up near Kentucky's Mt. Zion
         C (x32010@1)                                 AmRoad (x02210@1)and all that was there was some old cemetery.
Am (x02210@1)                                         CAll (x32010@1)I wanted [was] to be able to walk to the store.
    Am (x02210@1)                                                 CNow (x32010@1)I don't live there but there's too many stores, some apartments, and a Sunoco.
 
      C (x32010@1)                               AmAnd (x02210@1)I wonder, what did they do with the bodies?
C (x32010@1)       AmOh, (x02210@1)Susquehanna!

C (x32010@1)   Am (x02210@1)      C (x32010@1)                                     AmAnd (x02210@1)I miss that place behind my house where I hiked and climbed and played
      C (x32010@1)                                  Amwhere (x02210@1)I ditched this noisy century or just hid out from the decade.
    Am (x02210@1)                                 CM-I (x32010@1)homes thought it could stand to be updated
               Am (x02210@1)                                      Cforced (x32010@1)it all into a grid until it looked like the funny pages.

     C (x32010@1)                               AmWith (x02210@1)every trace of life, it seems, confined within a frame
    C (x32010@1)                                Amthe (x02210@1)faces move from day to day but the strips all look the same.
        Am (x02210@1)                          CAnd (x32010@1)the punchlines are resoundingly unfunny
         Am (x02210@1)                                  Cfor (x32010@1)those trapped in this architecture of easy money.

       C (x32010@1)                                  AmAnd (x02210@1)it feels like this could all come to no good.
             C (x32010@1)                                           AmThe (x02210@1)kids who populate these culdesacs will never know what stood beneath those
Am (x02210@1)                  C (x32010@1)cookie cutter houses: fields and streams and woods.
               Am (x02210@1)                                CThey'll (x32010@1)sit in cars and wait for mom to drive them out of this boring neighborhood.