Charley Pride - Hickory Hollow Times & County News lyrics

I was sitting on the sofa in my music row apartment Opening up a letter from my best friend, Silus Blue He included last week's issue of our tiny hometown paper With a note that said he finally got his picture in the news So I started on the front page with the mayor and the bar chief Driving big old tractors in the founder's day parade And a story about the JC's annual bake sale at the bar home Raising money for the orphans, selling cookie and [Incomprehensible] Got the farming boat, the high school sports Fishing news and bowling scores The weather and the ladies' gossip too Who's left town and who's come home Who's been born and who's pa**ed on Who's divorced and who's married who In the Hickory Hollow Times & County News It's reported Henry Johnson was seen courting the widow Jackson Outside in the moonlight on the Moose Lodge patio Sue Walker said she saw him holding hands in church on Sunday Holding hands in church reminds me of my old sweetheart, Betty Joan And right there on the next page grinning like a parson My old buddy, Silus, in his tux and cowboy boots And standing close beside him in her bridal gown and diamonds Betty Joan, my high school sweetheart, the new Mrs. Blue Got the farming boat, the high school sports Fishing news and bowling scores The weather and the ladies' gossip too Who left town and who's come home Who's been born and who's pa**ed on Who's divorced and who's married who In the Hickory Hollow Times & County News And you know it makes me happy to see 'em happy too In the Hickory Hollow Times & County News In the Hickory Hollow Times & County News