Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Big Black Smoke , by - The Kinks. Release date: 27.10.1966
Song language: English
Big Black Smoke |
| She was sick and tired of country life |
| A little country home |
| A little country folk |
| Made her blood run cold |
| Now her mother pines her heart away |
| Looking for her child in the big black smoke |
| In the big black smoke |
| Frailest, purest girl the world has seen |
| According to her Ma, according to her Pa |
| And everybody said |
| That she knew no sin and did no wrong |
| Till she walked the streets of the big black smoke |
| Of the big black smoke |
| Well, she slept in caffs and coffee bars and bowling alleys |
| And every penny she had |
| Was spent on purple hearts and cigarettes |
| She took all her pretty colored clothes |
| And ran away from home |
| And the boy next door |
| For a boy named Joe |
| And he took her money for the rent |
| And tried to drag her down in the big black smoke |
| In the big black smoke |
| In the big black smoke |
| In the big black smoke |