Okay, I'll play...with the standard disclaimer about not having a favorite one of my "children" and today's opinion being subject to change.

Not In My Backyard
(Kurt Fortmeyer/Neal Guinane)
Dad Zone Music ASCAP

I hear tell they think they're doing well
Up on Wall Street in New York
But that's so not the view I've got
Out here on my porch
Dog's running rabbits through the weeds
Growing up around a truck that hasn't cranked in days
And I ain't sweating at no factory job
Just settin' up here in the shade

I got no reason for leaving here for anyway
It don't matter if that truck won't start
Somebody somewhere is making hay
Just not in my backyard

They closed the textile mills in Caroline
And the steel mills in PA
You'll only get connected to some Indian guy
If you pick up the phone to complain
Big boxes killed off the Mom & Pops
China owns the American Dream
The King of Beers belongs to Belgium now
There ain't no local economy

I got no reason for leaving here for anyway
It don't matter if that truck won't start
Somebody somewhere is making hay
Just not in my backyard

How they sleep at night the devil knows
And he shipped my job off to Mexico
I hear the money's good if you're a CEO
But a working man's got nowhere to go

I got no reason for leaving here for anyway
It don't matter if that truck won't start
Somebody somewhere is making hay
Just not in my backyard
Yeah somebody somewhere is making hay
Just not in my backyard