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Small Town Ways

by Paul Fogarty

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I wrote this song in September 1998. It was the first of a bunch of songs I wrote after quitting my job in Brisbane and moving up to live with my mate Steve at his place in Deception Bay. I would write songs on the front steps or at the kitchen table and day dream about being a touring singer-songwriter

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I live in a small town, I lived here all of my days
I live in a small town, I can’t seem to change my small town ways
Old folks don’t seem to get out much
Say the big wide world is just some kind of crazy maze

I live in a small town, I lived here all of my life
But I got to get myself up and out and on the road
To some place else tonight
I say I have got to get myself up and out and on the road
To some place else tonight
Ain’t nothing here movin.... damn thing

Chorus
Well the sun comes up, and oh the sun goes down
And the moon she drags her fingertips all along the ground
All along the ground…

I live in a small town and the breeze blowing the trees
It always blows the same damn thing
I live in a small town walking dead end feet on streets
Itching to claim my name
Just like my daddy before me sinking those bottles of booze
Just to ease his pain
Momma sink in depression down so deep
She can hardly keep her mind from going insane
Insane
Ain’t nothing here moving… damn thing

I live in a small town and that small town alive inside of me
I live in a small town oh why can’t that small town just a let me be
I got to kill that small small town or else that small town gonna kill me
Every city made up of small small towns
Every one got its own brand of shit going down…

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released November 4, 2020
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Paul Fogarty Tewantin, Australia

Born and raised in the Australian bush Paul Fogarty had plenty of time to kick his creative engines into overdrive.
"You could go weeks without anything happening at all," he says.
Fogarty made up for the emptiness with a creative drive that has produced more than 2000 songs. He plays lap slide, acoustic guitar, piano, harmonica and plays live concerts in Australia/ Europe. www.paulfogarty.one ... more

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