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03 Oct 04 - 11:55 PM (#1287952) Subject: Lyr Add: THE MOTHER ROAD (Kevin Welch/Alan Rhody) From: Stewie This was brought to mind by the Route 66 thread that is currently on foot - a beaut song that doesn't appear to be in the forum nor available on the Net: THE MOTHER ROAD (Kevin Welch/Alan Rhody) There used to be a main street 'cross the country And that good ol' road would take you all the way From Clark and Ogden Street up in Chicago To Lincoln and Olympic in LA Now I was raised up somewhere in the middle Me and daddy'd watch 'em all roll through town I saw licence plates from states I'd only dreamed of They'd just wave goodbye and put that hammer down Chorus: Well, the restless and the desperate The young ones and the old All together like a river flowed Lord, I hope they got where they were goin' All the children of the mother road The dust bowl Okies stopped in Arizona To trade their family things for gasoline Just to find themselves outnumbered by the thousands Who'd already travelled down that road of dreams When the war was over all the baby boomers Loaded up their cars and they grabbed their kids Just to count the miles and cuss those big freight liners Across twenty-two hundred miles of Route 66 Chorus Now the hot top is just ranch roads and runways And a way of life for some folks is all but gone You can almost see the ghost towns from the fast lane Of this super highway we're all a-ridin' on Chorus Copyright 1985 Welch/Rhody Cross Keys Pub. Co. Inc. (CBS Music Group) ASCAP. Source: from the lyrics booklet accompanying Kevin Welch 'Same' Reprise CD 26171-2. A recording by co-author, Alan Rhody, may be found on Various Artists 'The Songs of Route 66: Music from the all-American Highway' Lazy SOB Recordings SOB66. --Stewie. |
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04 Oct 04 - 12:05 AM (#1287956) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Mother Road From: Stewie An MP3 of Rhody's recording may been found on this page: CLICK. --Stewie. |