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Thread #154127   Message #4023251
Posted By: Joe Offer
12-Dec-19 - 12:59 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: New Christy Minstrels-various
Subject: ADD: Town and Country (Rod McKuen)
Somebody emailed me a request for "Town and Country," by the New Christy Minstrels. I found them here: http://www.mitomori.co.jp/song/lyrics_Town%20and%20country.html
I haven't verified them.

TOWN AND COUNTRY
(words & music by Rod McKuen, 1963)

CHORUS
I'll climb your mountains
I'll plow your fields.
I'll pick the apple
That your orchard yields.
I'll work your factories
wherever they may be.
In any town or country
where a man walks free.

When lonesome gets me hogtied
And worry bogs me down.
Then I hit the roads again
And find another town.
The moonlight is my mama
Yeah, the sun is my old man.
My brother and my sister
Are the wind and shiftin' sand.
Ah now........CHORUS

My heart is like a big bear
It's hungry all the time.
It's got to fill itself up
in spring or summertime.
But when the winter rolls around
I find myself alone.
It's time to hit the hills again
Just like a rolling stone.
Yeah........

Well, so much for my story
I guess I've had my say.
It's time this weary travelin' man
Went traveling on his way.
Just smile and tip your hat
If you see me coming 'round
In any town or country......
Country or town........
Ah now.......


Rod McKuen

From an album titled Folk '66, by Barry McGuire and the New Christy Minstrels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsZZlnc4gUU

Instrumental Recording by the Folkniks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrV7a0wsduA

Cherry Hill Singers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iClzSoBEzWQ