one-horse town

She was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in the rural Tennessee community of Nutbush, which she described in her 1973 song "Nutbush City Limits" as a "quiet little old community, a one-horse town."

Undeterred, they swiftly wrote a new opening, even swapping Austin for Boston to represent her home state: “Baby, what do you say we just get lost? Leave this one-horse town like two rebels without a cause / I’ve got people in Boston, ain’t your daddy still in De Moines?”

The problem with living in a one-horse town like Chokecherry is you can’t get away with anything.

She left her one-horse town in Ireland and moved to New York City.

I could cite it for you if I hadn’t felt so alienated by that culture: maybe something about a ramblin’ man and a one-way ticket on a westbound plane with a one-horse town in my rearview mirror.