Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

I really have a yen, to go back once again

Back to the place where no-one wears a frown

To see once more those super special just plain folks

In my home town

No fellow could ignore, that little girl next door

She sure looked sweet in her first evening gown

Now there's a charge for what she used to give for free

In my home town

Refrain 1

I remember Dan, the druggist on the corner

He was never mean or ornery, he was swell

He killed his mother-in-law and ground her up real well

And sprinkled just a bit over each banana split

Verse 2

The guy that taught us math, who never took a bath

Acquired a certain measure of renown

And after school he sold the most amazing pictures

In my home town

That fellow was no fool, who taught us Sunday School

And neither was our kindly Parson Brown

[line omitted to avoid prosecution under Communications Decency Act]

In my home town

Refrain 2

I remember Sam, he was the village idiot

Although it seems a pity it was so

He loved to burn down houses just to watch the glow

And nothing could be done, because he was the Mayor's son

The guy that took a knife, and monogrammed his wife

Then dropped her in the pond and watched her drown

Oh, yes, indeed, the people there are just plain folks

In my home town

Ahhhh... memories! Sounds just like my own home-town...