Eddie Rabbitt

Songwriter: Reed Nielsen

Producer: Richard Landis

There used to be a place where I would run
Down by the little stream
Where I could dream of things to come
It doesn't seem like twenty years ago
But there's eight lanes of concrete
Running over my old back road

They're tearing my little town down
Stone by stone, ground by ground
Men used to work in that old factory
Now they just stand around
Don't tear it down

I guess I shouldn't really be surprised
It's all in the name of progress
But it seems like suicide
They say you can never go back again
And I feel like I'm saying goodbye
Oh, to my only friend

They're tearing my little town down
Stone by stone, ground by ground
We turn away so we don't have to see
But we can't shut out that sound
Don't tear it down

There used to be a place where I would go
And except for some old photographs
It's a place my kids never will know
A cold wind blows across the setting sun
And I worry about the future
When the past is under the gun

They're tearing my little town down
Stone by stone, ground by ground
And it was here before my father was
He's buried in this ground
Don't tear it down

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was born November 27, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York to Irish immigrant parents. He was raised in East Orange, New Jersey. On his 35th birthday, he married Janine Girardi. They had three children. One daughter, Demelza, and two sons, Timmy & Tommy. Timmy was born with biliary atresia and died in childhood after a failed liver transplant intended to save his life. In March 1997, Eddie learned that he had lung cancer. He passed away on May 7, 1998. Rabbitt received several awards over the years. The Academy of Country Music Awards Top New Male Vocalist in 1977. Music City News Country Songwriter of the Year and BMI’s Robert J. Burton Award for “Suspicions” in 1979. 1980 brought BMI’s Song of the Year for “Suspicions.” In 1996 he pulled in BMI’s Three Million-Air Award and Two Million-Air Awards for “I Love a Rainy Night” and “Kentucky Rain”, respectively. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame the year of his death, 1998. Eddie’s final #1 hit came in 1989 with “On Second Thought”.

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