What’s So Good About Buena?

I’ve rambled round this great big land

And I’ve stayed in many a town

But I’m digging eastern Washington

Got me thinking about settling down

Right down the road from Yakima

Near Zilla and Sunnyside

Maybe raise a crop

Of hay and hops

In Buena I’ll reside

 

What’s so good about Buena?

Why don’t you stop on by and see?

You can’t call Buena no one horse town

Cause they’re half the citizenry

There was lots of room for First Street

It’s just Second wouldn’t fit

Buena’s good and small

So come on y’all

Pull up a spot and sit

 

A spell and watch the tumbleweed

A’tumbling in the breeze

I hope you brung your own shade along

You won’t find that many trees

‘Cept some old cottonwoods and willows

Along the arroyo

Still, Buena’s got a lot

Even if it’s not

Near big as Teapot Dome

 

No, and it’s not so grand as Grandview

Nor as gold as Goldendale

And it may not be no Prosser

But it’s still good, what the Hell?

You can’t catch a first run movie

But the stars shine every night

You’ll want to stay and play

No matter what they say

Good old Buena’s quite a sight

 

Thomas Hubbard  (10/9/2009)

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