Up on Main St
they built a highway
Changed its name to
Johnson Boulevard
Up on Thursday down on Friday
People ask me
why are things so hard
Times been hard though
From Laredo to San Jacinto
And it?s a long way back home
There?s an old train
in a stock yard
It?s like a graveyard of things
come and gone
And the wind
moves on a gravestone
Where the leaves gone
And everybody knows
Times been hard though
From Laredo to San Jacinto
And it?s a long way back home
Sometimes you?re standing still
And the wind just beats you down
Oh and sometimes
it?s just so hard
to keep your two feet
right there on the ground
Mother?s faithful
She goes to church still
She prays on Sunday
And Mondays too
Fathers somewhere
On the back field
Thinking out loud
That this ain'?t nothing new
Times been hard though
From Laredo to San Jacinto
So why don?t
we just go back home
Why don?t
we just go back home