'The Lights of My Home Town' - Greeny Original

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July 19, 2011, 05:53:25 AM Last Edit: July 19, 2011, 09:43:22 AM by 64Guitars
01_TIM GREEN_The Lights of my Hometown
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My inner puppy made me post this  :D

Another folky thing - this time composed entirely on mandolin, with a bit of added acoustic guitar and a dash of shaker. All on the MBR.

Inspired by Rory Gallagher's 'Going to my Hometown', with the lyrical twist of Tom Jones' 'The green green grass of home' - i.e. only getting to go home in a coffin. I guess it's a bit dark  ???

The Lights of my Home Town

I never should have used that crowbar on the factory door
Or got involved in what was going down
The law men lay in wait for us, so I had to flee the scene
I left behind the lights of my home town

I travelled far across the land, working where I could
And the girls I met could never pin me down
But sometimes I'd get drunk and mournful for familiar roads
And the comfort of the lights of my home town

But I never thought I'd end up going back inside this box
My nostrils full of loneliness and pine
Up that chimney I will go, like snowflakes on the breeze
High above the lights of my home town

I circumvented lady luck when I took to counting cards
I broke the house with every ace laid down
But every fast buck that I made couldn't get me any nearer
To the distant lights of my home town

I'm not proud of all the things I've done along the way
If I had a God it's hell where I'd be bound
But dwelling on regrets won't get me where I want to be
Safe beneath the lights of my home town

But I never thought I'd end up going back there in a box
My nostrils full of loneliness and pine
Up that chimney I will go, like snowflakes on the breeze
High above the lights of my home town

Flash Harry

#1
July 19, 2011, 06:36:12 AM
Tuesday?

Incredible - it's a great story and lyrically it's brilliant.

Played and recorded and sung wonderfully. It's fab Tim!

Maraccas?
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Greeny

#2
July 19, 2011, 07:03:17 AM
Quote from: Flash Harry on July 19, 2011, 06:36:12 AMMaraccas?

Nah - just a tiny egg-shaped shaker my son gave me. Does the job though!

Groundy

#3
July 19, 2011, 07:08:16 AM
Brilliant Tim, love yer Shaker lol.....well done........Alex

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Geir

#4
July 19, 2011, 07:14:24 AM
WOW ... a Green Tuesday as well !!

Love it Tim !! Glad you're on the folky train right now, this is brilliant !

Fab mando-playing ... (oh here comes that GAS again) .... great lyrics as well (as usual)

QuoteMy nostrils full of loneliness and pine
just brilliant !!

01_ ... ? ... another album in the making?
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Oh well ........

Greeny

#5
July 19, 2011, 07:21:44 AM
Quote from: Geir on July 19, 2011, 07:14:24 AM01_ ... ? ... another album in the making?

Yes - another one, lol. This is track one of 11 on this one. I've been making an album's worth every 1-2 months. Need to take a break!

Oldrottenhead

#6
July 19, 2011, 07:29:21 AM
bloody brilliant got to love that mandolin, you are oft compared to crowded house tim, but here with the mandolin it is reminiscent of early split enz, but far better.

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a green tuesday indeed.
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trev

#7
July 19, 2011, 10:37:33 AM
This is great Tim - lyrics are excellent and you always come up with really good melody lines. Excellent stuff keep it up mate.

Trev
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