FAWM: "A Mile Around"

A Mile Around

1 week ago by @hmstreetteam

Skirmish: In your neighborhood (@longbat)

A Mile Around

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Liner Notes

#country #skirmish A tour of the neighborhood.

Lyrics

By the time that I was three I knew the meaning of a mile. If you had to walk it, it would take a while. And though I was a skinny boy, I always made it home. A mile was just the closest I could roam.

In 1880 this was on the edge of town. That’s why the block is a mile around.

Now, one side of the block looks like a factory town, Boxes put up in a day, but you could never knock them down. On the other side the mansions in Victorian style. You can see them for yourself but you will have to walk a mile.

In 1880 this was on the edge of town. That’s why the block is a mile around.

Comments

@mjv 1w

The steady pacing of the lines helps to reinforce the idea of walking, good stuff

@metalfoot 1w

Here in the Prairies the land was surveyed in 1 mile x 1 mile blocks so I can relate! Nice lyric and the tune works fine!

@raspberry33 1w

Nice take on the skirmish! I live on the edge of my town (though it's practically merging with the next town over, now) and it's exactly one mile around the block, which I know was farmland gone to scrub forest 35-40 years ago. The line about "mansions in Victorian style" creates the perfect picture.