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Long Bomb City Blues

from NOTHING TO DECLARE by Stompin' on Spiders

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about

When you are a country boy, any metropolis is a little daunting. Even more so when circumstances force you to live out the working week in the big city. Imagine the relief, when the first sign of the countryside comes into sight.

This is a song for all the country-boys from Worcester and Malvern, who every Friday night, scramble aboard the 5:15 express at London's Paddington Station and raise a collective cheer with cans of Kestrel lager in hand, as the train thunders through the Sonning cutting and onward to the Shire and their homes and loved ones.

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Long Bomb City Blues

Pass me a whisky,
Wipe the dust from my eye.
Time I was leaving,
Time I said “Good-bye!”
City life has taken all I own,
I’m going to keep moving on,
So take me from these city blues.

Hey, Mr City,
Take your hands off me.
I just want to be lonely,
I just want to stay so free.
Don’t want to stop here any more.
I’m going to keep moving on,
So take me from these city blues.

Onward to the country,
Take me home to my Rosie-lea.
She’s been awaitin’,
Says she’s going to marry me.
City, city people, I ain’t your fool.
My heart is in the country,
So take me from these city blues
Take me from these city blues.

© New Tradition Music.

credits

from NOTHING TO DECLARE, track released February 29, 2012
Gazza Tee: Vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Noor Ali: Vocals, banjo, electric guitars, bass guitar & drums

Written by G Tolley & N Ali
© New Tradition Music.

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Stompin' on Spiders is a musical collective formed at a Blues festival in April 2009. The band's stripped-back acoustic Blues/Rock style is individual as it is unique, blending the traditional ethos of Blues music with a very modern edge. A "new tradition" is how one music journalist described Stompin' on Spiders; "a radical mix of stripped-back blues and roots inspired by international events". ... more

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