The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104958   Message #2154716
Posted By: Peace
21-Sep-07 - 11:07 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Family Owns This Town (David Olney)
Subject: Lyr Add: MANSION ON THE HILL (A3)
Found a neat one, though:

"Mansion on the hill

Hit the dancefloor 'round about midnight
Gin and Juicin' he's a feeling fine
Come the morning all the signs went up
Policeman said the joint was shut.
All the brothers getting busted outside
Undercover officer reading them tem their rights
One way ticket boy , you're prison bound
The night the lights in Dowlais went down

How long we gotta wait until we get the keys
To the mansion on the hill
How long we gotta waste our time
Boarding a bus that's bound fs that's bound for the welfare line

Shakes the blues off and she tries her luck
Makes a little bet hopes the horse comes up
Picking pockets for some easy money
'Cos she blew the goddamn lot on the national lottery
Steals the paper check check the front page
Headlines read the dancehall can't be saved
How can they open up the opera house
The night the lights in Dowlais went down

How long we gotta wait until we get the keys
To the mansion on the hill
How long we gotta waste our time
Boarding a bus that's bound fs that's bound for the welfare line

Tweak freak Tony on a four to eight
Undercover sting right time wrong place
Columbian connections in the corridors of power
Mean the man on the money ain't ever going down
Lord Lucky takes his lady to the Magic Flute
A little taste o' toot, now he's bullet proof
Tony tunes to underground radio
The night the lights in Dowlais went down

How long we gotta wait until we get the keys
To the mansion on the hill
How long we gotta waste our time
Boarding a bus that's bound fs that's bound for the welfare line"

Done by Alabama, maybe?