Cheer (213/365)

Mondays are more cheerful with celebrations... three birthdays in my practice groups this week! Also, I am still happy from a weekend full of music and friends. To top it off, I actually solved my tweaked neck. Just a couple more sets of photos to go!!

 

TOM WAITS - "Town With No Cheer"

 

Well it's hotter 'n 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

There's nothing sadder than a town with no cheer

Voc Rail decided the canteen was no longer necessary there

no spirits, no bilgewater and 80 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 boilin' in a miserable March 21 st

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 her Vic Rail decree tooth and nail

now it's boilin' in a miserable March 21 st

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

Done