7 Foot Fence by John Dale
Channel: Spearfish City Limits
Date: 12/02/2020

The Summertime is gone and the ground's turnin' cold
as our town goes head first to stormy weather
Every day we must strive to keep ourselves alive
or another family will splinter

When the minin' company came with their contracts in hand
they said they're gonna change our town for the better
So let's do this thing together come hell or stormy weather
"You can trust us everything will get better."

When their men came to town they looked at my sweet wife
they said hey boys now there's some ore that's worth diggin
they said do you want to be on the side of the economy
or in a grave of your own diggin'

But my cousins and me we run four generations deep
We shoot straight and we know the lay of this land
so put your designs on her to sleep or another secret I'm gonna have to keep
about that shallow grave to where you're buried in

Jimmy Jack Johnson was alone in his dissent
he said he knew their numbers and what they added to 
But when that start date drew near Jimmy disappeared
and ain't nobody ever found out what the numbers added to

Now my baby's ten months old and her hair's a turnin' blonde
I wonder what her little life bring to her
and the night before last she cried so hard and fast
she was woke by a minin' blast while we sing'd to her

Now the trucks one by one they hauled the mountain away
They took so many millions from the ground there
Where a mountain once stood they say this hole is just as good
with a seven foot fence all around there

Now their minin' gates have locked and their men have all gone home
Our towns streets and houses overlook yonder
To the only thing new that made rich so very few
it's another open cut for us to ponder

Now Jimmy Jack Johnson was alone in his dissent
He said he knew their numbers and what they added to
But as my curiosity grew, I knew not what to do
because Jimmy Jack Johnson's math was way beyond two plus two