The Oldest House in Town

from Super Hits: Demos (2016-2019) by Matéo Champlain

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Well when I was a young man
there was an old old house
where my friend and his daddy used to live

Well it may not have been their land
But it felt like home no doubt
we’d all meetup there when we were kids

They say its the oldest house in town
And now they’re gonna tear it down
To build a new subdivision
Someone oughta go to prison

Its the oldest house around
Where we used to stomp the ground
But I guess what good is history after all?

Behind the house was a river
Where we would all raise hell
Howlin at the moon, swinging from the vines

Might have been bad our livers
But we lived through it to tell
Bout All those hazy afternoons, drinking sweet berry wine

Many have said there lives some ghosts
Among the houses’ walls
Even I felt spirits pass me by

But now I hopet those same dead folks
Who haunt them old old halls

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from Super Hits: Demos (2016-2019), released July 10, 2020

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