The idiot - Stan Rogers descargar videos gratis


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Subido: 2011/12/07

I often take these night shift walks when the foreman's not around

I turn my back on the cooling stacks and make for open ground

Far out beyond the tank farm fence where the gas flare makes no sound

I forget the stink and I always think back to that eastern town

I remember back six years ago, this western life I chose

And every day, the news would say some factory's going to close

Well, I could have stayed to take the dole, but I'm not one of those

I take nothing free, and that makes me an idiot, I suppose

So I bid farewell to the eastern town I never more will see

But work I must so I eat this dust and breathe refinery

Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams and I don't like cowboy clothes

But I like being free and that makes me an idiot I suppose

So come all you fine young fellows who've been beaten to the ground

This western life's no paradise, but it's better than lying down

Oh, the streets aren't clean, and there's nothing green, and the hills are dirty brown

But the government dole will rot your soul back there in your hometown

So bid farewell to the eastern town you never more will see

There's self-respect and a steady check in this refinery

You will miss the green and the woods and streams and the dust will fill your nose

But you'll be free, and just like me, an idiot, I suppose.

Comentarios

9 years ago

Brian Collinson

Weirdly, I went east about the same time Stan was singing about men going west. But it's amazing how well I relate to the lines about a town "I never more will see." I guess I'm a slightly different flavour, but somehow I'm some kind of "idiot I suppose."

10 years ago

jay werk

ALBERTA SUCKS

10 years ago

MrCurtisass

im working in the Conoco/Phillips refinery south of new Orleans rite now. I guess im the idiot

10 years ago

Al Veldjesgraaf

HERO!!!

10 years ago

Jeffrey Romine

By far my favorite Stan Rogers song, though its a hard call considering that there are so many great songs. Makes me proud to be from the American Midwest. Im 23 and discovered Stan Rogers on accident via Pandora. I have loved his music since. There are a few of us young-uns out there who know what truly good music is.

11 years ago

JMDinOKC

Met Stan in Philly in '82, a year before he was killed. Damn, I miss him. Leave it to Stan to set these lyrics to a sea chantey. Brilliant, he was.

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