Boomtown

Boomtown, boomtown

Better be careful

Hard times in this boomtown

Skyscrapers rising from the desert floor

Eighteen people living in a shack next door

It ain’t so easy living in this boomtown

They said the highways here were paved with gold

But the concrete’s hot and the bright light’s cold

It ain’t so easy living in this boomtown

Boomtown, boomtown

Better be careful

Hard times in this boomtown

Everyday it’s the same old thing

Strangers come to see what luck will bring to

Boomtown, boomtown

Better be careful

Hard times in this boomtown

They built new houses out on the outskirts

But there’s men in town who can’t get work

It ain’t so easy living in this boomtown

Everyday it’s the same old thing

Strangers come to see what luck will bring to

Boomtown, boomtown

Better be careful

Hard times in this boomtown

Skyscrapers rising from the desert floor

Eighteen people ‘round a liquor store

Someone says they heard about a new boomtown

Boomtown, boomtown

Better be careful

Hard times in this boomtown