Old Time Country Halls

[00:09.77] As I pick up my guitar to sing another song
[00:16.46] I hear the walls of this old hall - you've done this thing too long
[00:21.11] You know you've been around for years, I guess you've shown us all
[00:26.99] I talk like this when I reminisce with an old time country hall
[00:31.83] I joined a tent show as a kid with a dream and an old guitar
[00:37.52] The Silvers All-Star Cavalcade and Dandy was the star
[00:43.37] He taught me lots about the game, today I understand
[00:49.02] He was a great magician, Dandy was a fine old man
[00:53.73] I'm a howlin' cattle-hand crooner
[00:57.64] I'm an old time dinosaur
[01:00.43] Hey, let me sing where the rafters ring
[01:03.39] In an old time country hall, that's right
[01:05.29] I've been on the road for thirty years but Dandy could double that
[01:22.49] And you'll find his faded poster still in some hall way out back
[01:27.26] I like to go back stage and dream sometimes and just recall
[01:32.96] The shows I've had, the good and bad, shared with these country halls
[01:38.73] Take the old Town Hall Kalgoorlie with it's old time charm and grace
[01:44.34] And your mounting million complexes never will replace
[01:49.14] All glass and steal and concrete, some large and some too small
[01:55.72] So let me sing where the rafters ring in an old time country hall, hey
[02:00.57] We showed last night in the school of arts and the town was real run-down
[02:16.88] You'll find so many towns like that today as you move around
[02:22.50] Yeah, the wind of change is blowin' up such an economic low
[02:28.45] The old time shows we used to know will soon be off the road
[02:33.21] I'm a howlin' cattle-hand crooner
[02:37.07] I'm an old time dinosaur
[02:38.96] Hey, let me sing where the rafters ring
[02:41.87] In an old time country hall
[02:44.67] In an old time country hall
[02:46.53] In an old time country hall
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