Tom Waits "Town with No Cheer" |
Well, it's hotter and blazes and all the long faces There'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier There'll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo From Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander With newfangled buffet cars and faster locomotives The train stopped in Serviceton less and less often No, there's nothing sadder than a town with no cheer VicRail decided the canteen was no longer necessary No spirits, no bilgewater and eighty dry locals And the high noon sun beats a hundred and four There's a hummingbird trapped in a closed down shoe store This tiny victorian rhubarb kept the watering hole open for sixty five years Now it's boiling in a miserable March twenty first Wrapped the hills in a blanket of Patterson's curse The train smokes down the xylophone, there'll be no stopping here All ya can be is thirsty in a town with no cheer No bourbon, no branchwater Though the townspeople here fought the VicRail decree tooth and nail Now it's boiling in a miserable March twenty first Wrapped the hills in a blanket of Patterson's curse The train smokes down the xylophone, there'll be no stopping here All ya can be is thirsty in a town with no cheer Lyric from www.lyricmania.com |