Hickory

(album: Inside You - 1975)

Someday baby, we'll leave this town
For a little house and country scene
But right now my love
It's gonna take some time
Saving our nickels
Counting all our dimes
Then hickory glows, 'cause hickory knows
With each song she sings him
A new day she brings him
He says hickory when your singing the blues
This downtown guy feels like uptown new
Something in your voice sounded soothing and clear
Like magic, this old ghetto seems to disappear
There across town, in a brown stone cellar
There's a bit of heaven singing
Every night a song keeps bringing
Crowds of people by the score
Hickory's heart must be made of sunshine
Singing songs of sweet salvation
Brings back inspiration
Keeps them coming back for more
They sing hickory, when you're singing the blues
This downtown street feels like uptown new
Something in your voice sounded soothing and clear
Like magic this old ghetto seems to disappear
Hickory got a guy she lives for
He drives taxi downtown city
That job of his is dirt and gritty
'Nough to make a big man cry
Counting his coin till makes a dollar
To pay the rent for where they're sleeping
She's always at the door to greet him
Saying they'll make it by and by
Hickory when your singing the blues
This downtown guy feels like uptown new
Something in your voice sounded soothing and clear
Like magic this old ghetto seems to disappear
Hickory, hickory, hickory
Hickory, hickory...