Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Big Black Smoke, artist - The Kinks.
Date of issue: 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 |