Name: I was a country boy
Duration: P00H04M36S
Description: “I was a country boy” has music written by Stuart Perera and is a very autobiographical song where Dave Graney sings very directly about the direction he travelled from . A direction which has informed his character and demeanour. The music is kind of latin and it swings. Perera lets loose with a blazing solo.

I was a country boy

from we wuz curious (2008 mistLY masterpiece) by dave graney

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“I was a country boy” has music written by Stuart Perera and is a very autobiographical song where Dave Graney sings very directly about the direction he travelled from . A direction which has informed his character and demeanour. The music is kind of latin and it swings. Perera lets loose with a blazing solo.

lyrics

I was a country boy ...... boy was I country
I was outside lookin on
everything was happening somewhere else
I could see the whole thing..............everybody
I believed everything
I believed everybody else first
I couldn’t believe myself
I thought they must know what they are doin’
who was I to enter the scene
I was a country boy ...................boy was I country
I was open to the world
I was flat
I believed everybody
I couldn’t believe myself
I was last in line
I smiled and let people into my house
I was polite
I had a background in backgrounds
all the players came out to play
I took people as they came
I let them walk all over me
then i had enough
I shrugged and threw them off
I moved and they had nothin to stand on
I let em all talk
then i smiled and walked I waited till they forgot then I made my move
I was a country boy ...................boy was I country
I hear what youre sayin ..its so compressed... you know the room
I heard my voice disappear into the air
I had to listen for so long
I was a country boy .................I liked to make it look easy
whatever i was doin
I slouched around it and looked away as I made my pass

credits

from we wuz curious (2008 mistLY masterpiece), released October 9, 2013
Dave Graney, electric and acoustic guitar,vocals
Clare Moore, drums, percussion,vocals
Stu D aka Stuart Thomas, bass, vocals.
Stu Perera, electric guitar.
Mark Fitzgibbon, piano.

mastered by Greg Wadley
Cover illustration by Tony Mahony.

Recorded September 2007 at Sing Sing South.
Engineer Adam Rhodes.
Mixed at the Ponderosa October-November 2007 by Dave graney and Clare Moore
Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.

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dave graney Melbourne, Australia

From Melbourne, Australia.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore were once in the Moodists, singer and drummer respectively.Then there was the Coral Snakes and and now Dave Graney and the mistLY.
Stu Thomas on bass since 2004 and Stuart Perera on guitar since 1998 ... more

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Pomona, QLD
Jun 8

Kindred Studios Creative Spaces

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Jun 28

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