F*ck Yeah, Asheville!

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Song of the Week XIII

This little number is called Asheville/Crashville, and is by The Austin Lounge Lizards, my favorite band as a kid.

Asheville is a hippie town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, and it’s also my current residence. College, college… It’s an awesome place, though, it really is. The rumor is that once you go there, you can’t leave.

Buy the Album! • About The Austin Lounge Lizards • (Lyrics somehow not available ANYWHERE)

Okay, since the lyrics are non-existent on any website out there… But goddammit, there WILL be lyrics! ——>

Asheville/Crashville

I was wonderin’ as I was wanderin’, on a dreary mountain day

While I meandered weary on the Blue Ridge Parkway

I said I “Swannanoa” where I’m gonna spend the night

When some angels yelled, “Look homeward!” and I saw this flash of light…

Then they sang

Please come to Asheville, it’s Crashville

Don’t stop in Knoxville or Nashville

We know that your Rambler or Nash will

Appreciate you’re taking a break

Celebrate our salubrious area

We’ve stamped out the plague and malaria

Come rest at our best sanitaria

And appreciate you’re taking a break

Have you seen the Smokies lately?

Demolition has improved them greatly

We’ve got plenty of room to spare

So we’ve been buildin’ everywhere!

Oh, come see the manse where the Gants dwelt

Feel what Thomas Wolfe in short pants felt

And into a mist of romance, melt

Now appreciate this musical break

[epic banjo-and-fiddle bit]

See what the Biltmore was built for

All the spoils any Prince would have killed for

We’ll hose up the greenbacks you’ve spilt for

We appreciate you’re taking a break

Come stay a day or forever

Join our communal endeavor

All your ties to the past you must sever

To appreciate you’re makin’ a break! Shoooooooom…