歌词
Next we have the dear-hearts-and-gentle-people's school of songwriting, in which the singer tells you that, no matter how much sin and vice and crime go on where he comes from, it's still the be
Ace in the world because it's home, you know. sort of gets you. this example is called my home town.
I really have a yen
To go back once again,
Back to the place where no one wears a frown,
To see once more those super-special just plain folks
In my home town.
No fellow could ignore
The little girl next door,
She sure looked sweet in her first evening gown.
Now there's a charge for what she used to give for free
In my home town.
I remember dan, the druggist on the corner, 'e
Was never mean or ornery,
He was swell.
He killed his mother-in-law and ground her up real well,
And sprinkled just a bit
Over each banana split.
The guy that taught us math,
Who never took a bath,
Acquired a certain measure of renown,
And after school he sold the most amazing pictures
In my home town.
That fellow was no fool
Who taught our sunday school,
And neither was our kindly parson brown.
We're recording tonight so i have to leave this line out.
In my home town.
I remember sam, he was the village idiot.
And though it seems a pity, it
Was so.
He loved to burn down houses just to watch the glow,
And nothing could be done,
Because he was the mayor's son.
The guy that took a knife
And monogrammed his wife,
Then dropped her in the pond and watched her drown.
Oh, yes indeed, the people there are just plain folks
In my home town.
专辑信息
1.The Elements
2.We Will All Go Together When We Go
3.We Will All Go Together When We Go (orchestrated version; previously unreleased)
4.The Masochism Tango
5.When You Are Old and Gray
6.Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
7.Lobachevsky
8.The Hunting Song
9.Fight Fiercely, Harvard
10.The Old **** Peddler
11.Be Prepared
12.The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
13.I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
14.The Irish Ballad
15.My Home Town
16.I Hold Your Hand in Mine
17.The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
18.Bright College Days
19.A Christmas Carol
20.Oedipus Rex
21.In Old Mexico
22.Clementine
23.It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
24.She's My Girl
25.Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (orchestrated version)
26.The Masochism Tango (orchestrated version)
27.The Hunting Song (orchestrated version)
28.I Got It from Agnes (previously unreleased)