life in a northern town (live)
sugarland
a salvation army band played
and the children drank lemonade
and the morning lasted all day
and through an open window came
like sinatra in a younger day
they sat on the stony ground
and he took a cigarette out
and everyone else came down to listen
it felt like the world would freeze
with john f. kennedy and the beatles
they shut the factory down
the evening had turned to rain
watched the water roll down the drain
as we followed him down. to the station
and he would never wave goodbye
you could see it written in his eyes
as the train pulled out of sight