Curt Deatherage
Ringling, Mt
Ringling, Ringling, slippin' away
Only forty people livin' there today
Streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
Church windows broken, that place ain't been used in years
Jail don't have a sheriff or a cell
And electric trains they run by maybe once or twice a month
Easin' it on down the Musselshell
Ringling, Ringling, slippin' away
Only forty people livin' there today
'Cause the streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
And across from the bar there's a pile of beer cans, been there twenty-seven years
Imagine all the heartaches and tears in twenty-seven years of beer
So we hopped back in the rent-a-car and we hit the cruise control
Pretty soon the town was out of sight
But we left behind a fat barmaid, a cowboy and a dog
Bracing for a Ringling Friday night
Ringling, Ringling you're just slippin' away
I wonder how many people will be there a year from today
'Cause the streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
It's a dyin' little town
A great song by Jimmy Buffett - 'Ringling, Ringling' - from his 1974 album 'Living and Dying in 3/4 Time'
Since it's one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums - I just HAD to visit here on my Memorial Day trip to Montana.
Torrential rains accompanied me on this leg of my trip - so the dusty streets described in the song had turned to mud. The church has been rebuilt, but the sheriff and jail are long gone. Sorry, I didn't check to see if the pile of beer cans was still there. Also, since I was there on Saturday, I figured the "Ringling Friday night" might have been too much, so I didn't bother the barmaid, cowboy or dog either.
Ringling was once the southern terminus for the Yellowstone Park and White Sulphur Springs Railroad and was a station stop on the transcontinental main line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (The Milwaukee Road) - the tracks have long since been removed, but this abandoned depot remains ...
John Ringling, namesake of the town and member of the Ringling Brothers circus family, was the builder and president of the Yellowstone Park and White Sulphur Springs Railroad and a considerable land owner in the area.
I'm quite certain that a few "heartaches and tears" can still be found here.
The day was kinda dark in this "dyin' little town"
Ringling, Mt
Ringling, Ringling, slippin' away
Only forty people livin' there today
Streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
Church windows broken, that place ain't been used in years
Jail don't have a sheriff or a cell
And electric trains they run by maybe once or twice a month
Easin' it on down the Musselshell
Ringling, Ringling, slippin' away
Only forty people livin' there today
'Cause the streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
And across from the bar there's a pile of beer cans, been there twenty-seven years
Imagine all the heartaches and tears in twenty-seven years of beer
So we hopped back in the rent-a-car and we hit the cruise control
Pretty soon the town was out of sight
But we left behind a fat barmaid, a cowboy and a dog
Bracing for a Ringling Friday night
Ringling, Ringling you're just slippin' away
I wonder how many people will be there a year from today
'Cause the streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down
It's a dyin' little town
It's a dyin' little town
A great song by Jimmy Buffett - 'Ringling, Ringling' - from his 1974 album 'Living and Dying in 3/4 Time'
Since it's one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums - I just HAD to visit here on my Memorial Day trip to Montana.
Torrential rains accompanied me on this leg of my trip - so the dusty streets described in the song had turned to mud. The church has been rebuilt, but the sheriff and jail are long gone. Sorry, I didn't check to see if the pile of beer cans was still there. Also, since I was there on Saturday, I figured the "Ringling Friday night" might have been too much, so I didn't bother the barmaid, cowboy or dog either.
Ringling was once the southern terminus for the Yellowstone Park and White Sulphur Springs Railroad and was a station stop on the transcontinental main line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (The Milwaukee Road) - the tracks have long since been removed, but this abandoned depot remains ...
John Ringling, namesake of the town and member of the Ringling Brothers circus family, was the builder and president of the Yellowstone Park and White Sulphur Springs Railroad and a considerable land owner in the area.
I'm quite certain that a few "heartaches and tears" can still be found here.
The day was kinda dark in this "dyin' little town"