ringlin ringlin 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 to muscle shell ringlin ringlin 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 though we left behind a fat barmaid a cowboy and a dog bracin for a ringlin friday night ringlin ringlin 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 yeah it s a dyin little town