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English Dreamer, American Dream

from Me & Billy The Kid by Joe Solo

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This is either about a Country & Western duo from Batley who I once saw in a pub in Hull- all sequins and 10 Gallon hats- or a little man dreaming big....who knows, it may even be about both ;o)

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The Mississippi flows
Just not down the Humber or the Ouse tha knows
Suppose that's just the way it goes
There’s no good place to start

Nothing in this world shines
Like old New York in the movie minds
Of men like me who learned our lines
But never got the part

But give me a 57 Chevy or a Cadillac
And I could hit those dirt roads just like Kerouac
And old Dean Moriarty
As sad as it seems
I'm an English dreamer
With American dreams

I still bring Broadway down
But it’s in backrooms of pubs in cold, grey northern towns
When I shut my eyes sad as it sounds
I can almost hear the screaming

I've had to accept it's true
That I'll never be Gram nor you Emmylou
Oh I had wings I just never flew
But it never stopped me dreaming

Give me a 57 Chevy or a Cadillac
And I could hit that dirt road just like Kerouac
And old Dean Moriarty
As dumb as it seems
I'm an English dreamer
With American dreams

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BY JOE SOLO
5/1/08

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from Me & Billy The Kid, released January 3, 2008
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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK

Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

He is not an artist you forget in a hurry.
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