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Town With No Cheer
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Tom Waits
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Well it's hotter ' blazes and all the long faces
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there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
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there'll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo
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from Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander
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with newfangled buffet cars and faster locomotives
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the train stopped in Serviceton less and less often
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There's nothing sadder than a town with no cheer
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VicRail decided the canteen was no longer necessary
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there no spirits, no bilgewater and 80 dry locals
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and the high noon sun beats a hundred and four
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there's a hummingbird trapped in a closed down shoe store
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This tiny Victorian rhubarb
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kept the watering hole open for sixty five years
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now it's boilin' in a miserable March 21 st
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wrapped the hills in a blanket of Patterson's curse
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the train smokes down the xylophone
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there'll be no stopping here
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all ya can be is thirsty in a town with no cheer
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no Bourbon, no Branchwater
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though the townspeople here
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fought the Vic Rail decree tooth and nail
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now it's boilin' in a miserable March 21 st
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wrapped the hills in a blanket of Patterson's curse
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the train smokes down the xylophone
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there'll be no stopping here
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all ya can be is thirsty in a town with no cheer
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