One Church, One Store

Описание: From ‪@HeadwindsAIMusic‬ Remembering back when some small country towns had one church, one bar, one barber, a post office, and one general store the provided groceries, hardware, sodas and ice cream, farm supplies, and gossip.

(Easy-rolling front-porch country groove with acoustic guitar and banjo leading, fiddle and harmonica weaving hooks between vocal lines, washtub bass thumping a lazy two-beat, Male vocals with a lived-in warmth; small gang harmonies on the choruses, Energy starts like a storytelling sway and blooms into a toe-tapping singalong by the last chorus, harp.)

[Verse 1]
Dust on a two-lane
Faded green road sign
Welcome to a place
You can walk end to end by suppertime
One steeple on Sunday
One neon on Friday night
One pole with a payphone
Buzzin’ in the summer light

[Chorus]
One church
One bar
One barber chair
One creaky floor in that store back there
Groceries
Nails
And a cold grape float
All on the same little tab they wrote
If you needed bread
If you needed news
You pushed that bell by the swinging door
We had all we’d ever use
In one church
One bar
One barber
One store

[Verse 2]
Old man Carter with the clippers
White towel and a shaky hand
Knew every boy’s mama
Every secret in the whole damn land
Ice cream dripping off a cone
Kids lined up by the screen door slam
Coffee cups
Card games
Soft talk
Hard plans

[Chorus]
One church
One bar
One barber chair
One creaky floor in that store back there
Groceries
Bolts
And a root beer float
All on the same little tab they wrote
If you lost your job
If you found your joy
You told it there on that worn-out floor
Whole world small as a kid with a toy
In one church
One bar
One barber
One store

[Bridge]
I still smell the dust and cut pine boards
Hear boots on planks
That low-murmured roar
Names on a jar for the folks gone before
All of us packed in a handful of doors

[Chorus]
One church
One bar
One barber chair
One creaky floor in that store back there
Groceries
Hope
And a cherry float
All on the same little tab they wrote
If you needed help
If you needed more
You found a way like we did before
Whole life hanging on a single corner
One church
One bar
One barber
One store