"Just another town"

 

Just Another Town

Johnny Dunhan

The old spinster is going insane
Her next door neighbour is in church again
Two drunks are fighting down in the lane
While little children are playing a game

Dogs are barking, little girl sing,
And the chapel bell begins to ring
Someone deals Bobby a King;
On the pavement many starts to run

Chorus:
And the street is drifting into evening
While the sun is going down.
I'm just back there capturing the feeling
Though it's just another town,
Just another town.

The cripple crawls up the avenue
Someone else says, "How do you do?"
Someone kicks a ball over to you
While the sky begins to lose its hue

A group of old stevedores from the ships
Come up the street bent from the hips;
One takes a cigarette from his lips
Someone else drops the coin he flips.

And the street is drifting into evening….

And in the band-room up on the hill
A brass band's playing, I can hear it still –
The slide trombone is softly blown.

The old nurse is on her way to the shops.
The epileptic suddenly drops.
Down the hill my father's in the docks.
In the bar the drinking never stops.

Bobby throws down a pair of queens.
The church bell interrupts someone's dreams.
Someone's talking of football teams.
Some girl is straightening her nylon seams.

And the street is drifting into evening……

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