Tom T. Hall - Looking Forward To Seeing You Again lyrics

Looking forward to seeing you again
I'm looking forward to seeing you again

Well it seems like only yesterday
That I was living here
And I'm surprised that hasn't change
Thru'out these many years
That old tree ain't grown much more
Than six or seven feet
Lord, I sometimes wish that I
Lived on this street

It's silly but in all my
Little hometown kinda dreams
I thought of you and sunny
Skies and ice banana cream
I think of coffee conversation
About the local folks
And how things were when I was just a joke

I know I'm foolish when I think
That life here never ends
The never changing smile of all
My old familiar friends
But I suppose that death is just
As real in Olive Hill
As it is in some big city by a mill


Remember all the times I've had
To borrow fifteen bucks
How could I be so optimistic
So down on my luck
You never mentioned that I had
So many things to learn
And you never said it when my back was turned

And I'm looking forward to seeing
You again my friend
I'm looking forward to seeing you again

Well here I am a few miles
From your friendly coffee pot
I meant to call and tell you
I was here but I forgot
I guess we never changed much from
The things that we have been
But I'm looking forward to seeing you again

There ain't too many cities like
This pretty town today and I can hear an old
Dog barkin' somewhere far away
Perhaps the great great grandson of a
Dog that I once knew
Barking at somewhere with whom
I went to school