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D It’s like her second home and she don’t eat caviar,
There’s a woman who sits at the end of the bar,

E Thinking bout her son who’d have just turned 23,
But he couldn’t take a life of mediocrity

Picks upon a sweater that has long seen better days,
S Another sip of courage try to focus through the haze,
She used to be a stunner at the age of 21
P One look in the mirror tells her that those days are gone

And the sun goes down,
E Just someone that you’ll meet
On the other side of town

On Desperation Street
R Repeat above chorus

A There’s a guy plays a tune on a battered old guitar,
Used to dream of fame but he never got that far,
Just another never was among the never been’s
T Trying to survive on drugs and nicotine

And his pain it sings,
I Just someone that you’ll meet
Like a thousand violins

On Desperation Street
O Repeat above chorus Hi everyone, i am lyricist and vocalist for British country band ‘4 Owld Codgers’

N And the singer sings the song and we had a write up about one of our songs ‘Southern Born Romeo’ in the last
And the days are long
issue of this magazine (pages 74/75). I decided to write about a couple of other
And the world don’t care
country songs. The first song came to me as i thought about what it would be like
But who says life is fair songs i have composed the lyrics to which veer away from my normal writing of
And there seems no end if people who had not had it easy in life lived in the same community and hence
And your neighbour ain’t your friend came up with the lyrics for ‘Desperation Street’ (shown below, the link to the
S And it’s bitter never sweet completed song is there also).

On Desperation Street

T Only half way through the week and money’s all been spent The second song is a ballad about lost love called ‘Dance With Her Once More’. I
A couple try to think of ways to help to pay the rent,
wrote the lyrics in a way so that with a few word changes it could relate to a

R Used to both be working now they cannot contemplate, woman who has sadly lost her husband as opposed to a man who has lost his
Why they’re staring at the TV for near 14 hours straight
wife. The lyrics have not been turned in to a song yet but a fellow singer/song-
writer called Mike Terry from over in America has taken the lyrics on to see what
And there seems no hope,
E And they find it hard to cope he can come up with musically. Mike has done some work with the writer of this
magazine Jane Shields (give ‘Sunny Side Up’ a listen on YouTube it’s a good song).
Just a couple that you’ll meet
E And there seems no end Please feel free to leave comment on my Facebook page under ‘4 Owld Codgers’.
On Desperation Street
Stay safe everyone.

T And your neighbour ain’t your friend Ron Todd
And it’s bitter never sweet
On Desperation Street
Yeah they’re the people that you’ll meet on Desperation Street TO LISTEN PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK....

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