Down on Main Street after sundown
Goodtime Charlie and Wanderin' Bill
Thought they might hold up Happy's Drive-in
One got away and one never will

Chorus:
That's the way it goes around here
I think everybody knows
That's the song they've been singin' for years
That's the way wild wind blows

Too tall Annie kept her money
In a Bible she never read
They found Lefty, her first ex-husband,
In his new pickup truck at the bottom of the riverbed

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Luther Martin, he ain't got nobody
But he sells papers and buys his wine
His granddaddy owned half of Main Street
Luther's daddy didn't have a dime

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Ain't no secret old Doc Skinner
Wrote prescriptions and made lots of friends
He could dance like nobody's business
Folks around here are sure missing him

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