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Big City Blue

from Sittin' On Your Fence EP by Gary O'Dea

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A song written about a night in London town after my first visit to The 12 Bar Club in 1998 where I had a gig coming up and was down in London with fellow Gentlemen Bandit (and now Cosmic Soul member) Stuart Downes (check him out - one of the finest authentic country blues pickers this country has ever produced www.sjdownes.com). The song's about the journey home and standing on the corner of Oxford St and the Tottenham Court Rd about 2 am in the morning and the London night life and characters being all that you could imagine lol...I wrote the words to the first two verses on a bus ticket from the night bus back to Turnpike Lane, North London (where Stu was living at the time). When we got back there we turned his 4 track recorder on and started jamming the song out...I was struggling for a third verse when inspiration from a John Lee Hooker poster that Stu had on his wall gave me the lead in line...check the lyrics out. A song that still remains a favourite to this day...hope you enjoy it...sit back and relax and happy listening :-)

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Big City Blue.

Louie been travellin' alone at night,
He said ''it's the best way to see the city so clear'',
He knows so much for one so young,
He's gonna' make his move, gonna get out of town this year,
Yeah cos' he's seen the push and the shove,
He's seen em' grab at it all,
He knows that sooner or later he'll feel the fear.

We got Marcel and Dixie you know they want it all,
Well they're gonna have their freedom gonna make their cake then eat it,
Well their good at giving you what you need,
What ever your hunger well they know how to feed it,
Cos' they got the grain and the seed,
They got the pill that cures,
And they know that sooner or later you'll be at their door.

Well ain't it hard on the scene,
You play the cards that you’re dealt, find a way of tapping right into the seam.

HARMONICA

GUITAR

To live were the streets are paved with gold,
''It's no disgrace to be poor it's just a little unhandy for me'',
We got the fast lane teeming, they were dropping like fly’s,
Well if you dance while you hustle,
You'll make yourself a killing tonight,
Get in on the push and the shove,
Get in on the dollar and yen,
Cos' when tomorrow comes calling it'll all start over again,
Yeah tomorrow comes calling and it all starts over again.

J-A-Z-Z. J-A-Z-Z.
Oh don't push us when we're HOT.
Al Capone's guns don't argue with me,
Al Capone's guns don't argue with me.


WORDS and MUSIC. Gary O'Dea. 1998.

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from Sittin' On Your Fence EP, track released January 1, 2000

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