Lyr Req: I Wouldn't Live in New York City (B Owens

Subject: Lyr Req: I Wouldn't Live in New York City...
From: BBJ
Date: 18 Sep 98 - 12:02 PM

I heard this song one time about 20 years ago at a campfire. The refrain went "I wouldn't live in New York City if you give me the whole dang town." It was sort of a cowboy blues thing as I recall it. Anybody recognize it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Wouldn't Live in New York City...
From: Gene
Date: 18 Sep 98 - 05:49 PM


I WOULDN'T LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY
(If they gave me the whole dang town)
As recorded by: Buck Owens and his buckaroos
Writer: Buck Owens

It ain't nothin' but a concrete jungle
With people packed like sardines
Where ev'rbody's tryin'
To live beyond their means
Where all the natives hurry
And scurry to and fro
But like fleas on a puppy dog
They got no place to go.

CHORUS
I Wouldn't Live In New York City
If they gave me the whole dang town
Talk about a bummer, it's the biggest one around
Sodom and Gomorrah was tame to what I found
I Wouldn't Live In New York City
If they gave me the whole dang town.

Well, I aint seen the sunshine
Since they day that I arrived
'Cause brother I've been busy
A-tryin' to survive
Nobody's knows you been here
Til you're six feet underground
And you become a statistic
If they remember to write you down.

CHORUS

SOURCE:
I WOULDN'T LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY
(If they gave me the whole dang town)
Buck Owens and his buckaroos/Capitol ST 628

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Wouldn't Live in New York City...
From: BBJ
Date: 21 Sep 98 - 03:23 PM

Thanks, Gene.