Got a wife
Got a family
Earn my living with my hand
I'm a roller in a steel mill
In downtown Birmingham
Daddy was a barber
A most unsightly man
He was born in Tuscaloosa
But he died right here in Birmingham
Birmingham, Birmingham
The greatest city in Alabam'
You can travel 'cross this entire land
There ain't no place like Birmingham
My wife's named Mary but she's called Marie
We live in a three room house with a pepper tree
I work all day in the factory
That's alright with me
Got a big black dog and his name is Dan
He lives in my backyard in Birmingham
He's the meanest dog in Alabam'
Get 'em, Dan!
Birmingham, Birmingham
The greatest city in Alabam'
You can travel 'cross this entire land
There ain't no place like Birmingham
Got a family
Earn my living with my hand
I'm a roller in a steel mill
In downtown Birmingham
Daddy was a barber
A most unsightly man
He was born in Tuscaloosa
But he died right here in Birmingham
Birmingham, Birmingham
The greatest city in Alabam'
You can travel 'cross this entire land
There ain't no place like Birmingham
My wife's named Mary but she's called Marie
We live in a three room house with a pepper tree
I work all day in the factory
That's alright with me
Got a big black dog and his name is Dan
He lives in my backyard in Birmingham
He's the meanest dog in Alabam'
Get 'em, Dan!
Birmingham, Birmingham
The greatest city in Alabam'
You can travel 'cross this entire land
There ain't no place like Birmingham
inviata da Bernart Bartleby - 11/4/2020 - 14:25
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Nell'album "Good Old Boys"
"Good Old Boys" è una sorta di concept album in cui Randy Newman utilizza un prototipo di lavoratore bianco "redneck" del profondo sud degli USA per raccontare la cultura e il sentimento che si vivevano da quelle parti negli anni 60 e 70 (così come in gran parte anche oggi)... Il testo è apparentemente innocente, la descrizione di una tipica famigliola bianca di Birmingham, Alabama, lui, operaio in acciaieria, lei, che cura una casetta di tre stanze, con un giardino che è il regno del loro grosso cane nero chiamato Dan... ed ecco, proprio alla fine, irrompere la violenza: "Dan è il più cattivo cane dell'Alabama... Prendili, Dan!"