Down In My Hometown Lyrics - Odessa Tapes - Flatlanders

(Jimmie Dale Gilmore) 

Down in my hometown there is a fortune 

They used call it gold but now it's love I'm told 

With a worried mind I put my time in 

But hunger comes and goes even while the wild wind blows 

Now I could sing you a song of inspiration 

Or of new world where everyone is free 

But know you there ain't no new way to salvation 

The time is gettin' short my friends for you and me 

Down in my hometown there is a fortune 

They used call it gold but now it's love I'm told 

(Instrumental) 

Now when I left there, my eyes cast down in sorrow 

So very soon I found the darkness on the ground 

And now I see the clouds gatherin' for tomorrow 

But I must journey on the one road I have found 

Down in my hometown there is a fortune 

They used call it gold but now it's love I'm told 

With a worried mind I put my time in 

But hunger comes and goes even while the wild wind blows