Hall Tom T: Subdivision blues

Out on the edge of town I bought a two room brickMoved in as soon as I got the plumbin' all fixedMaking them payments worked my fingers to the boneAnything I had to do to get myself a homeThere was water in the basement it looked like a swimming poolThe man said son that water'll help to keep your cottage coolThe Welcome Wagon brought me out some sleepin' pills and boozeI got the mean old subdivision bluesSomebody came and knocked my fence down just the other dayTore up my yard and hauled my lawnmower awayShot out my windows with the BB gunA buggsy down the street came by and beat up my sonSo I went out and bought myself a big old German dogThe man behind me saw me and he started raisin' hogsA nineteen year old girl next door is sunnin' in the nudeI got those mean old subdivision bluesBut I bought my house because it was located near a schoolNow a bus comes by and takes my kids to IstambulThe guy next door just bought his son a brand new saxophoneThe man behind me sued him cause his hogs were leavin' homeMy buddy left his wife now he's livin' in a tentA hippie sued me cause I did not have a room to rentThey built a trailer park before I had a chance to moveI got them mean old subdivision blues[ harmonica ]Well I moved out in the country just as far as I could goI couldn't even get the Grand Ole Opry on the radioI guess you know what happened just as soon as I moved inThe man across the valley started clearin' off this landThe law came out and said that I would have to move my barnThey said the man next door was gonna subdivide his farmThey auctioned off my farm to build the state another schoolI got the mean old subdivision bluesWell other night I dreamed I died and I went right straight to hellI don't know what I did but you know you can never tellThey handed me a key and handed me a little mapThey said you got a place to live we'll show you where it's atThey took me to a two room brick just on the edge of townWith thirty thousand other little houses falling downA million years to pay it off with payments overdueIt's hell to have the subdivision blues got those mean old subdivision blues