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King Of This Country

from Rusty Fords and Weatherboards by Copperline

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lyrics

He works down at the dog track
Where they give him bed and board
Ten minutes from the Waratah Hotel
In a broken, borrowed Ford
He’s backs a couple of winners
But he’s seen more come in fourth
Now the credit lines have all dried up
And he can’t travel North

His family sang a country song
that made the radio
He travelled up to Tamworth
and he played his first show
How the guitars sang and jangled,
how the lights they shined and glowed
He gave his heart to Hank and Cash,
quit school and hit the road

He’s the king of this country
And it’s a one night only deal
Putting it on the line for
Free drinks and a counter meal
King of this country
He’s got to make it pay
Before tomorrow takes it all away

He still puts pen to paper
But the gold is hard to find
And fashion has a funny old way
Of leaving folks behind

Friday afternoon at five, the bars begin to fill
They drown themselves in happy hours,
get swept up in the swill
He sets up in the corner
of this slowly dying town
A Friday night moonlighter
in a black suede leather crown

He’s the king of this country
And it’s a one night only deal
Putting it on the line for
Free drinks and a counter meal
King of this country
He’s got to make it pay
Before tomorrow takes it all away

With a roll up Jolly Roger and
a cold black glass of old
He’ll be here all night while
there’s still stories to be told
He’ll strum this bruised guitar
until the strings are all stained red
For the ghosts that walk these empty streets,
the living and the dead

He’s the king of this country
And it’s a one night only deal
Putting it on the line for
Free drinks and a counter meal
King of this country
He’s got to make it pay
Before tomorrow takes it all away

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from Rusty Fords and Weatherboards, released November 1, 2018

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Copperline Sydney, Australia

Take some disarmingly honest and heartworn storytelling, flavour it with generous lashings of twang and gritty rock and you get Copperline. The Sydney/Blue Mountains alt-country four-piece have lived and breathed the highs and lows of the rock and low life – and that experience can’t help but find its way into their music. ... more

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