Country Dreams
Words and Music by Harry Chapin

This phone's growin' in to my ear
I made three hundred calls today
Though yours is the only voice that I want to hear
I gotta make me a living some way

I know you hate me doing this
You say I'm selling out
But how in the hell is a man supposed to live
Selling what it's all about

Hello sir. I'm the Pocono Land Development Company
And I'm calling you with an offer of some land that you'll just have to see
A quarter acre plot, that's what I've got for you
Nineteen ninety five, four hundred dollars down and just ten bucks a week

It's two short hours from New York City
A Pocono land site green and pretty
There's lakes there and trout streams
Mountain views, country dreams, country dreams

We dreamed our dreams in college girl
Back then we thought we should
And we promised that we would save the world
Way back then we thought we could

I know you love your teaching now
But I wish you'd understand
There aren't that many jobs around
I'm doing the best I can

Hello sir. I'm the Pocono Land Development Company
And I'm calling you with an offer of some land that you'll just have to see
A quarter acre plot, that's what I've got for you
Nineteen ninety five, four hundred dollars down and just ten bucks a week

It's two short hours from New York City
A Pocono land site green and pretty
There's lakes there and trout streams
Mountain views, country dreams, country dreams

I'm here with forty other guys crowded in a room
Makin' a living selling the moon, and rustic dreams in June
I used to hate the city now I'm dwelling in it
I used to love the country now I'm selling it
I'm doing well at it, that's the hell of it

I said that we would find a farm 
And live out on the land
It strange how dreams come back at us
In ways that we had never planned

Here I'm selling real estate
And laughin' at myself
If I can't have my country dream
I'm gonna sell it out to somebody else

Hello sir. I'm the Pocono Land Development Company
And I'm calling you with an offer of some land that you'll just have to see
A quarter acre plot, that's what I've got for you
Nineteen ninety five, four hundred dollars down and just ten bucks a week

It's two short hours from New York City
A Pocono land site green and pretty
There's lakes there and trout streams
Mountain views, country dreams, country dreams

Darlin' don't get mad at me
I'm doing this for you
It's really not so sad to see
We had growin' up to do, country dreams

Aw please don't push me any more
It's gonna work out fine
I know I said I'd quit before
But just give me a little more time, country dreams
Country Dreams.