Angela Easterling BlackTop Road lyrics

TheyÂ’ve got telephone poles where our trees had been
They ripped up our pasture, put a sidewalk in
Yeah, the big voice of Progress said, “You’ve gotta go!”
“We’re gonna lay us a black-top road, We’re gonna lay us a black-top road”
Well they tore down the house my great granddaddy built
Where my grandpa was born and my Mama took her first steps
But nobody cared about the stories it told
The spot was just right for a black-top road
Was the perfect spot for a black-top road
Black-top road, black top road, theyÂ’re gonna lay them a black-top road
DonÂ’t you try to complain, you just do as youÂ’re told
Get out the way of that black-top road

Grandma planted these flowers back when she was my age
And they still bloom here every year, ‘though she’s gone to her grave
But they wonÂ’t be here tomorrow and that I know
They’re gonna pave ‘em right over with a Black-top Road
Cover ‘em over with a black-top road. We cried, “This can’t happen in the U.S.A”
They said, “You’d better shut up or we’ll take your farm away”
But then theyÂ’d thought theyÂ’d be friendly
Maybe throw us a bone: They slapped our family name on that Black-Top Road
Now our family nameÂ’s on that Black-Top Road