Ain't No Such Thing As A New Barn
Verse 1:
On a Sunday drive to clear my mind
But the ride was getting long
All the roads I rambled blind
So many sights from yesterday gone
An ol barn on the county road
Sunken in and falling down
The weather’d done it all bowed
And there wasn’t a farmer around
I pulled over to the stall doors
To take a look inside
At what used to be so much more
Now had lost most of it’s pride
A fellow came wandering over to me
He thought he knew what I was thinking
He said we ordered us a new building
This one is rotten and sinking
Chorus:
There ain’t no such thing as a new barn
No one wants to repair the past
Sweat running from your face, down your arm
As you nail one board to the last
Ain’t no such thing as a new barn
The wood came from some of those old trees
You can spin up any kind of old yarn
Buy any new building you please
There ain’t no such thing as a new barn
Verse 2:
Now he thought about this and he looked down
Said you’re onto something there
I remember when the neighbors came around
And we built this barn on a prayer
You don’t see new barns, or neighbors
Everybody’s got some place to be
Nobody no more knows about the labor
And how running a farm ought to be
We stood there in quiet reflection
Of all the times that come and gone
And agreed the barn’s best attraction
Was representing how it was hanging on
I guess I saw a little of me in that barn
I saw a little of you, too
Though the years may have done their harm
We still have made it on through
©Beth Sutton