Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Tangletown, artist - Ian Moss.
Date of issue: 31.08.1989
Song language: English
Tangletown |
Tangletown |
Tangletown |
Tangletown, yeah yeah |
Tangletown |
Hey sister when you see |
The city life on the colour TV |
The temptation is known to us all |
Hey little sister, don’t you fall |
For Tangletown |
Hey brother, stay on the farm |
Our daddy needs your strong right arm |
There’s no land of milk and honey |
There ain’t no jobs and there ain’t no money |
In Tangletown |
Ain’t no money in Tangletown |
Lebanese food, Lagos soul |
Black American rock and roll |
Swimmin' in the sun, the papaya, the lies |
The money, the guns, the fish and the flies |
In the petrol fumes the little girls ripe |
And bleed for a priest or a white man |
You know a cane knife is the sweetest blade |
In a cane-cutters hand, that got ever made |
And out in the fields of Negros-occidental |
A young man howls at the cane and the jungle |
Oh yeah |
Oh my lover, stay with me |
I am poor and I’ll never be free (never be free) |
And I’m afraid the Americans’ll buy your |
Beautiful body with the almighty dollar |
If you leave me for Tangletown |
(In the petrol fumes the little girls ripe) Yeah, Yeah |
(And bleed for a priest or a white man) |
Tangletown |
Ooh don’t you leave me for Tangletown |
No, Tangletown, don’t you leave me baby |
No money in Tangletown, yeah |
Don’t you leave me for Tangletown, whoa no |
Tangletown |
Don’t you leave me for Tangletown, whoa |
Tangletown |