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.
