Footscray

Billy Miller

Lời bài hát Footscray của Billy Miller

Verse Three Ibis Are Flying Down The Maribyrnong Cars On The Westgate Will Be Home Before Long In My Backyard I'm Writing This Song As The Sun Sets Over Footscray The Scallop Fleet's Rusting Down On The River While At Sunshine Hospital They're About To Deliver A Young Girl's First Child, Her Boyfriend Is With Her As The Sun Sets Over Footscray Chorus Footscray Oh Footscray My Factory Town Your Streets Are All Dead-Ends, All Go Round And Round You're Not A Hard Place To Get To Just Hard To Get Out I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray Verse Sailors Pass Through By Road And By Rail Forges Is Holding This Month's Annual Sale A Housewife Is Out Delivering Junk Mail For Some Extra Cash Here In Footscray Bill Miller Is Out For A Beer With His Mates While At Yarraville Station They've Closed The Gates And For The Next Fifteen Minutes The Traffic Just Waits As The Sun Sets Over Footscray Chorus Footscray Oh Footscray You're The Pearl Of The South It's True Coz I Heard It From Ted Whitten's Mouth You're Not A Hard Place To Get To Just Hard To Get Out I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray Verse The Country's For Cockies, Toorak's For Swells They Don't Know Footscray's Faces Or The Stories They Tell If I Ever Win Tatts, I Might Move Somewhere Else But I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray Chorus Footscray Oh Footscray My Factory Town Your Streets Are All Dead-Ends, All Go Round And Round You're Not A Hard Place To Get To Just Hard To Get Out I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray Footscray Oh Footscray You're The Pearl Of The South It's True Coz I Heard It From Ted Whitten's Mouth You're Not A Hard Place To Get To Just Hard To Get Out I'll Probably Die Here In Footscray We All Manage To Get By Here In Footscray