Last Drive-in Lyrics - Chris Ledoux

Caravan of yellow wire 

And crawling across the plains 

Rolling along in a single file 

Like a slow moving train 

It rumbled down out of the mist 

Into the early morning light 

Said they stay till the job was 

Finished if it took them till midnight 

There were cats and scrapers 

All caterpillars packed up by mile high crane 

And it looked like monsters from the old 

B movies the drive-ins use to play 

And we'd sang goodbye Saturday 

Under the stars, wake up little Suzy 

In my daddy's car 

So many memories, got lost and found 

When a piece of history hit the ground 

The day they tore the last drive-in down 

Memories thick as the smoke clouds 

They made man and machine became one 

Boards snapped like toothpicks 

On their blades but to us it sounded like guns 

Cowboys soldiers gangsters and thieves 

James Bond and his golden girls 

Well you could sit in your car 

And never turn the key and go 

Half way around the world 

And it stood like a landmark for forty years 

We never thought we'd live to see 

It fall it to the ground and then 

Just disappear like so many childhood dreams 

And we'd sang goodbye 

A lot of the drivers had tears in their eyes 

But I don't think it was just the dust 

See I still believe there's a little piece 

Of that old drive-in left in all of us 

Nobody moved through what seemed like hours 

And slow motion it came tumbling down 

We just stood there with a taste of metal 

In our mouths and a silence all around 

The day they tore the last drive-in down 

And we'd sang goodbye