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The Chopper Bike Song
03:00
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I was 9 years old and so in love
With a fine young girl from the street above
With her long brown hair and fire in her eyes
She left me dazed and stupefied
How could I impress a girl like that?
Take her for a spin at the bicycle track
There was just one thing that I would need
The coolest ride on two wheels
Wind in her hair
Sun in her eyes
Didn’t have a care
Wheels in the sky on my chopper bike
What young girl wouldn’t want to be
A pillion rider with me
I want that girl oh yes it’s true
And a red Rayleigh chopper too
I was 9 years old and so in love
With a fine young girl from the street above
With her long brown hair and fire in her eyes
She left me dazed and stupefied
Wind in her hair
Sun in her eyes
Didn’t have a care
Wheels in the sky on my chopper bike
The moon only shines when kissed by sun
She kissed my cheek and off she run
If I had to choose the best I like
I’m sure I’d go with my chopper bike
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Hank Williams Hat
03:14
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Born beneath a silver crescent moon
With the valleys green
Cattle sleeping
He grew up too soon
He was no more cowboy than alley cat
Gun in his vest
Heart on his chest
And a John B Stetson hat
With a wink and a smile
And no word of a lie
He said ‘Son can you keep a secret?’
‘I stole this hat from ol’ Hank Williams’
He told the tale way back in '52
He took that hat
From a cadillac
Drunk on the moon
With a wink and a smile
And no word of a lie
He said ‘Son can you keep a secret?’
‘I stole this hat from ol’ Hank Williams’
He said ‘Son can you keep a secret?’
‘I stole this hat off ol’ Hank Williams’
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Seventeen
02:47
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Age corrupts you
The more you see you hate
Time makes you jaded
While years seal your fate
Oh daylight
What have you done to me now
The sun falls upon us
Like ash from the sky
Days never slow down
And time slips on by
Oh sweet world
Why won’t you stop going round
Seventeen
I wish I was seventeen
I feel the same, do you feel the way
When you were seventeen
Risks are for taking
Before it’s too late
There’s no other world for to
Make your escape
Is time really
The healer it’s made out to be
Seventeen
I wish I was seventeen
I feel the same, do you feel the way
When you were seventeen
Ah cursing the days & the
Nights are wasted on me tell me
Why did it take me so long to
Feel that I have so much to give
To believe in the life that I live
Seventeen
I wish I was seventeen
I feel the same, do you feel the way
When you were seventeen
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Who Will Raise The Dead
03:02
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I feel the sun has gone out of this life
I feel the winter’s come to last forever
I feel the corner’s turned, we’re on the home run
Who will raise the dead?
Raise a smile, raise your hell
Sink like a stone
Without a trace, without a soul
Come see the broken heart of mother nature
Come see us drift apart, a world divided
Come see us suffocate under a world of red tape
Who will raise the dead?
Raise a smile, raise your hell
Sink like a stone
Without a trace, without a soul
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Mack lived at the edge of town
Such a complicated man
Only ever see him when
The sun goes down
He said the voices in his head
Tellin’ him go do some bad
So he shot Eliza dead
And put her in the playground
On the carousel
Where he laid her head
Her peaceful eyes
Staring to the skies
Mack he was a lawman’s son
Confessing of the crime he’d done
Upon the ground he threw his gun
Cryin’ mercy
Now the voices in his head
As silent as the grave is dead
A bullet hole that never bled
Cryin’ an cursin’
And the swings did blow
By a wind so cold
And her mother’s eyes
Brown from dust, red from cryin’
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Nick Ward Porthcawl, UK
Nick Ward is a singer-songwriter. He lives by the sea in South Wales, UK.
He has been
signed to London based independent label Audiofile Records since 2009 and has many releases to his name.
Nick isn't afraid to delve into different genres, from pop to rock, folk to country, whatever the genre Nick's sound is unmistakable.
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