A Million Miles To The City - Tom T. Hall

I remember it now we were kids back then living down on the farm

We were told that the city could only bring us harm

Well how far away is the city you know that’s a great big town

And Barbara said why it’s a million miles and then the story got around

It’s a million miles to the city from the hills and valleys we know

It’s a million miles to the city and some day we all wanna go

There was a town nearby but a town is a town and a city that’s somethin' else

Our daddy had been to a city but he never was much help

The buildings’re taller than oak trees ah but we knew better than that

Cause ain’t nobody could climb that high the city was wide and flat

It’s a million miles…

The years have passed and we have grown and traveled far and wide

The cities have changed the kids we were we see it in each other’s eyes

Lord I’d love to go back to those hills again to the boy I used to be

Where the leaves in the wind and the whippoorwills

Were all just a part of the land like me

It’s a million miles…