Nancy Rost: Music

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This version features Andy Nath on backing vocals and acoustic guitar.

In the bluffs, beside the river
Lies a town with cows and tractors
Visited by railway buffs
And Civil War re-enactors
But history's passe
Small-town doesn't sell
The tourists from Chicago
All go to the Dells

The sign on the highway looks lonesome
Won't you stay for a spell?
The sign on the highway says, Welcome
Welcome to Boscobel

In the field behind the pine trees
Workers lay a new foundation
Ground is broken, ribbon's cut
There are cries of jubilation
The state installs new sewers
Super 8 builds a motel
Highway 61's repaved
And Main Street's doing well

The sign on the highway looks hopeful
Won't you stay for a spell?
The sign on the highway says Welcome
Welcome to Boscobel

In the shadow of the pine trees
Nouveau-country architecture
Hides the city folk who enter there
From the free-world-dwelling sector
All are residents of Boscobel
According to the census
But no-one in town has seen a face
Behind the lethal fences

And this palace of concrete is quiet as a grave
Save for the possible rattle of chains
And the rumble of hundreds of hearts that pound
You can hear if you keep your ear to the ground

In the bluffs beside the river
Lies a town with cows and tractors
Visited by railway buffs
And Civil War re-enactors
But history's passe
Small-town doesn't sell
The tourists from Chicago
Go to Wisconsin Dells