Drive-By Truckers - Uncle Frank lyrics

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They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice<br />

Now we got more electricity we can ever use<br />

They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved out<br />

But they got paid so there ain?t nothin? else to think about<br />

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Some of them made their living cutting the timber down<br />

Snaking it one log at a time up the hill and into town<br />

T.V.A. had a way to clear it off real fast<br />

Lots of men and machinery build a dam and drown the rest<br />

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Uncle Frank lived down the park, down on Cedar Creek<br />

Bought fifteen acres when he got back home from overseas<br />

Fifteen rocky acres, figured no one else would want<br />

Till all that backed up water had to have some place to go<br />

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Uncle Frank couldn?t read or write<br />

Never held down a job or needed one in his life<br />

They assured him there?d be work for him in town building cars<br />

It?s already going down<br />

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The cars never came to town and the roads never got built<br />

And the price of all that power kept on going straight uphill<br />

And banks around the hollow sold for lake-front property<br />

Where doctors, lawyers, and musicians teach their kids to water ski<br />

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Uncle Frank couldn?t read or write<br />

So there was no note or letter found where he died<br />

Just a rope around his neck<br />

And the kitchen table turned on it?s side<br /><br />