Million Miles To The City Lyrics - Bobby Bare

I remember it now we were kids back then living down on the farm 

We were told that the city could only bring us harm 

Well how far away is the city you know that's a great big town 

And Barbara said why it's a million miles and then the story got around 

It's a million miles to the city from the hills and valleys we know 

It's a million miles to the city and some day we all wanna go 

There was a town nearby but a town is a town and a city that's somethin' else 

Our daddy had been to a city but he never was much help 

The buildings're taller than oak trees ah but we knew better than that 

Cause ain't nobody could climb that high the city was wide and flat 

It's a million miles 

The years have passed and we have grown and traveled far and wide 

The cities have changed the kids we were we see it in each other's eyes 

Lord I'd love to go back to those hills again to the boy I used to be 

Where the leaves in the wind and the whippoorwills 

Were all just a part of the land like me 

It's a million miles