Population 1975

she left her home of 17 years last time she saw her in the checkout line on the back porch in tears it's hard to leave your woman behind in the smallest of the smallest towns this town won't need you when you're gone this town won't love you in Jasper in Margaretsville in Cullman Alabama in Mechanic Falls in Whately Mass in La Mesilla in a town of 1975 in a town of two thousand six sixteen this town will need you when you're gone this town will fall in love with you this home won't know you when you come back your home won't even recognize you