The Music Thread

[IceWizard]

Don't Let Them Tear Little Brown Building Down
(not sure who originaly recorded it, but I heard this in the 60's...)


They passed an ordinance in the town
They said we'd have to tear it down
That little old shack out back so dear to me
Though the health department said
its day was over and dead
It will stand forever in my memory.

Don't let them tear that little brown building down
Don't let them tear that precious building down
Don't let them tear that dear old building down There's not another like it in the country or the town.
It was not so long ago
that I went tripping through the snow
Out to that house behind my old hound dog Where I would sit me down to rest
like a snowbird on his nest
And I'd read that Sears and Roebuck catalog.

Oh, I would hum a happy tune
peeping through the quarter moon
As my daddy's kin had done so much before
It was in that quiet spot
daily cares could be forgot
And it gave the same relief to rich and poor.

Don't let them tear that little brown building down
Don't let them tear that precious building down
Don't let them tear that dear old building down There's not another like it in the country or the town.

Now it was not a castle fair
but I could dream of future there
Build my castle to the yellow jackets drone
I could orbit round the sun
fight with General Washington
Or be a king upon a golden throne.

It wasn't fancy built at all
we had newspapers on the wall
It was air-conditioned in the wintertime
Oh it was just an humble hut
but its door was never shut
And a man could get inside without a dime.

Don't let them tear that little brown building down
Don't let them tear that precious building down
Don't let them tear that dear old building down There's not another like it in the country or the town...



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7MBDq6jrk