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Thread #118229   Message #2556632
Posted By: Charley Noble
03-Feb-09 - 07:59 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs About Moving North
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs About Moving North
Q-

I guess I always assumed that "You Gave Me a Song" had to do with moving north to Detroit although there is no mention of that in the verses:

I got a job in a factory
On that old assembly line
Thought I'd climb on up the hill
And leave my past behind
But the only climbing that I did
Was five flights up the stairs
And the past I thought I'd left behind
Went with me everywhere.

But when I hear "assembly line" I think automobile factories, and when I imagine a 5-flight walk-up I think major Northern city.

The other song's title I believe is "The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble