Dancin' Moon Songcast Ep. 58 Hampton Town | NEW 2020 Album Episode!

Lyrics, poems & episode notes

Written content from the original Podbean episode; not a recording transcript.

Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP &
from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP

Hampton Town

If you're a traveling man then listen here
A stranger alone has cause for fear
If you go down to Hampton, watch your back
Or it's tar and a-feather and don't come back
Or you're wearing a rope without no slack
You'll be swinging like taters in a gunny sack...
If you go down to Hampton, watch your back Well, the Sheriff, they just call him Jed
Grease his palm, he'll turn his head
'Less a man like you is toting cash,
Best make your visit, make it fast
Your luck's gonna run out in a flash
Them Hampton folk don't take to "trash"
'Less a man like you is toting cash Sometimes I want to kiss the ground
For the good folk God done spread around
But I'd burn my boots and settle down
'Fore I'd step a foot in Hampton town Sometimes I want to kiss the ground
For the good folk God done spread around
But I'd burn my boots and settle down
'Fore I'd step a foot in Hampton town You see, I had a girl sometime ago
Was the sweetest thing you'd ever know
But she went down to Hampton and never came out
Yeah, they twisted her nearly inside-out
She forgot what love is all about
Now she's a Hampton girl, ain't no doubt
Yeah, she went down to Hampton and never came out Sometimes I want to kiss the ground
For the good folk God done spread around
But I'd burn my boots and settle down
'Fore I'd step a foot in Hampton town
Sometimes I want to kiss the ground
For the good folk God done spread around
But I'd burn my boots and settle down
'Fore I'd step a foot in Hampton town Also appears on... Check out the original Cast and Production notes here!!