Broke Down Town Songtext
von Jack Cade

Sitting with the sunrise
Up on Jackson′s field
Watching all the street lights bling
Slowly fade until

That first truck of the morning
Rumbles down the road
Something in this old town
It just broke
It's the bitter, the sweet
It′s the bitter, the sweet

Been five and twenty years
Since I sat up on that field
Now there's painted glassed shops
And nothing there to sell


No last voice of the day
Making their way home
Something in this old town
Well it just broke
It's the bitter, the sweet
It′s the bitter, the sweet
It′s the bitter, the sweet
Of this old broke down town

Standing under Troytown lights
Watching papers drift into the night
And listening to them dragging feet
It sure ain't pretty
It sure ain′t, it sure ain't, it sure ain′t, it sure ain't sweet

Sitting with the sundown
Up on Church Fields
Watching all the sunlight dance on the river
Slowly fade until

That last car of the evening
Rolls on down the road
Something in this old town
Well it just broke