Name: Jeffersonville
Duration: P00H02M48S
Description: Jeffersonville is a small-ish city right on the Ohio River, across from Louisville, Kentucky. It's kind of awful there. It seems to be nothing but rundown, partially-abandoned strip malls, fast food restaurants and gas stations. It feels like there's not a tree in the whole town. Just one vast parking lot.

Jeffersonville

from Kentuckiana Demos by Constant Reader

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Jeffersonville is a small-ish city right on the Ohio River, across from Louisville, Kentucky. It's kind of awful there. It seems to be nothing but rundown, partially-abandoned strip malls, fast food restaurants and gas stations. It feels like there's not a tree in the whole town. Just one vast parking lot.

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Just north of the beautiful Ohio River
In Southern Indiana where I was a boy
There's a little old town I'd like not to remember
And when I pass through I make sure to avoid

And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again

It's a shame that it's named for a great president
When it's nothing but fast food and trashed parking lots
It's the kind of place that don't have no residents
Just folks who passed through, meant to leave and forgot

And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again

I once knew a girl with the bad luck to live there
In a rundown motel room, all yellow and grey
And she spent all her time looking out at the river
And wishing that it would carry her away

And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again
And I hope that I never see Jeffersonville ever again, ever again

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from Kentuckiana Demos, released May 9, 2013
Words and music by Anthony Bowman

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