Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2019 11:53:59 GMT -5
I may have mentioned before that I'm from Casey, a small town in East Central Illinois that has become a tourist stop because a local businessman has been bitten with the desire to build huge things and get them certified as "World's Largest" by Guinness. This weekend, a Guinness representative cane to town and they added six more items to the list: World's Largest key, barber pole, swizzle spoon, teeter-totter, gavel and golf club.
The motto is "Big Things in a Small Town." All these items are in addition to the World's Largest rocking chair, wind chimes, golf tee, mail box, pitchfork and a number of other items. It is a town of 2,700 amidst the corn and soybean fields off I-70, and they actually have traffic jams downtown in the summer. I know. I got caught in one.
Anyway, I wanted to commemorate the event by writing a song. It is the first song I've written in years in which someone doesn't die or go to prison or commit a crime or lose his/her job or fret about the economy etc.
(A good friend of mine in Casey, farmer/songwriter John Crouch, has already written a song called "Big Things in a Small Town," so I just went with "Big Things.")
Big Things
© 2019 by David Hanners
Meet me in the shadow of the Rocking Chair
Down on Main; you’ll see it there
Paul Bunyan needs a place to sit
Well, this is it
There’s a giant pitchfork for the field of hay
Babe the Ox will eat today
Paul and Babe feel welcome, boys
In my hometown, Casey, Illinois
(chorus)
My love for you is bigger still
Just say the word and I will
Bring in Guinness to measure true
The size of my love for you
I have never felt so small
Standing next to wind chimes 40 feet tall
They’re down the street from the mail box
Goliath could use to mail a semi truck
They’ve got a golf club and a tee
Bigger’n any you’ll ever see
Jolly Green Giant swings and yells “Fore!”
They hear it clear in Baltimore
(Chorus)
There’s a huge teeter-totter
Great fun for your sons and daughters
Your grandpas and grandmas, too
There’s a lot of cool things to do
Knitting needles and crochet hooks
So big that they made the book
Of Guinness Records for big things
In the small town of which I sing
(Chorus)
The motto is "Big Things in a Small Town." All these items are in addition to the World's Largest rocking chair, wind chimes, golf tee, mail box, pitchfork and a number of other items. It is a town of 2,700 amidst the corn and soybean fields off I-70, and they actually have traffic jams downtown in the summer. I know. I got caught in one.
Anyway, I wanted to commemorate the event by writing a song. It is the first song I've written in years in which someone doesn't die or go to prison or commit a crime or lose his/her job or fret about the economy etc.
(A good friend of mine in Casey, farmer/songwriter John Crouch, has already written a song called "Big Things in a Small Town," so I just went with "Big Things.")
Big Things
© 2019 by David Hanners
Meet me in the shadow of the Rocking Chair
Down on Main; you’ll see it there
Paul Bunyan needs a place to sit
Well, this is it
There’s a giant pitchfork for the field of hay
Babe the Ox will eat today
Paul and Babe feel welcome, boys
In my hometown, Casey, Illinois
(chorus)
My love for you is bigger still
Just say the word and I will
Bring in Guinness to measure true
The size of my love for you
I have never felt so small
Standing next to wind chimes 40 feet tall
They’re down the street from the mail box
Goliath could use to mail a semi truck
They’ve got a golf club and a tee
Bigger’n any you’ll ever see
Jolly Green Giant swings and yells “Fore!”
They hear it clear in Baltimore
(Chorus)
There’s a huge teeter-totter
Great fun for your sons and daughters
Your grandpas and grandmas, too
There’s a lot of cool things to do
Knitting needles and crochet hooks
So big that they made the book
Of Guinness Records for big things
In the small town of which I sing
(Chorus)