My home town by the shadows
chorded by ross
My home town
She big and she’s brown
She reaches to the sky above
An every where you look she’s all around you
My back yard
Is dirty an hard
It never seen a flower grown
Since I can testify its no garden
one of these days
Am gona pack my bags an take a train to some big city
Where the lights are bright an I now all the girls a pretty
My home folk
Were raised in the smoke
Of firy factory chimney stacks that gave you work
But in return they choked you,
choked youuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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When a wakeup
A wake up in the morning
Work all the day till the sun goes down
Gota save up all the money am earning
Gota have enough to kiss this town
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Borrowing books from the public library
Teaching myself about the world outside
Pictures of sunny places in fife
Be goodbye town
Goodbye
Am taken A riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide
My mother started crying at the station
Asked me if I wouldn’t change my mind
Am afraid the city light were going blind
The whistle blows and terminates my journey
Go reality is right on time
The factory gate closed behind meeeeee
One of theses days
Am gona pack my bags an take a train to some big city
Where the lights are bright an I now all the girls a pretty
One of these days