Boomtown Lyrics

Boomtown lyrics

(Toby Keith)

    

 The people came here from parts unknown 

 Sleepin' in their cars 'cause they didn't have homes 

 Thought this place was the promised land 

 If you could roughneck, we could use a good man 

 Come on boy let me show you around 

 You could make a lot of money here 

 Livin' in a boomtown 

 

 Well some build bars and big hotels 

 Downshift drive and the people live well 

 High on the hog and wild on the range 

 Pocket full of cash instead of chump change 

 This place kicks when the sun goes down 

 Ain't life great when you're livin' in a boomtown 

 

 See oil was the blood that flowed through the soul 

 To keep a man workin' when it's forty below 

 Relent to the devil in the cold cold ground 

 Trying to make a dollar here livin' in a boomtown 

 

 Six short years the oil fields went 

 Rigs came down and the money got spent 

 And the wisemen saved for a rainy day 

 The fools packed up and moved away 

 The hotels closed and the bars shut down 

 And it got real quite livin' in a boomtown 

 

 See oil was the blood that flowed through the soul 

 To keep a man workin' when it's forty below 

 Relent to the devil in the cold cold ground 

 Trying to make a dollar here livin' in a boomtown 

 

 Now the cafe's filled with people tellin' lies 

 Trying to figure out how the town went dry 

 You can buy a house a dime on the dollar 

 Need a good home just give me a holler 

 I can move you in with no money down 

 Still tryin' to make a dollar here livin' in a boomtown 

 

 Livin' in a boomtown 

 Livin' in a boomtown