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 U (HANK PLAY INSTRUMENTAL) 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 U (HANK PLAY INSTRUMENTAL) Borrowing books from the public library Teaching myself about the world outside Pictures of sunny places in fife Be goodbye town Goodbye taken 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