Boomtown - Greg Brown

Here come the artists with their intense faces

With their need for money and quiet spaces

They leave New York, they leave L.A.

Here they are — who knows how long they’ll stay —

It’s a Boomtown

Got another Boomtown

And it’ll boom

Just as long as boom has room

Here come the tourists with their blank stares

With their fanny packs — they are penny millionaires

Something interesting happened here long time ago

Now where people used to live their lives the restless

Come and go

Nice to meet you, nice to see you

In a sheepskin coat made in Korea

Welcome to the new age, the new century

Welcome to a town with no real reason to be

The rich build sensitive houses and pass their staff around

For the rest of us, it’s trailers on the outskirts of town

We carry them their coffee, wash their shiny cars

Hear all about how lucky we are

To be living in a …

The guy from California moves in and relaxes

The natives have to move — they cannot pay the taxes

Santa Fe has had it.

Sedona has, too

Maybe you’ll be lucky — maybe your town will be the new…