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There is no better way to honor Bill and Don but with rays of hope and grief expressed through song. We believe this is the way they would want it to be.
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Small Town Boy
By Ozark Blues Legends*
When I was a boy
'bout twelve years old
Go to the city
Was my goal
When I got to be twenty-one
I grabbed my bags
And away I run
When I got to the city
I found out times was so hard
I found happiness is back in Springfield
In my own back yard
For some folks live in cities
Others lives in town
I'll stay here
And it won't get me down
I was meant to be
Nothing but a small town boy.
Oh you can have your city
I'll take my town
I'll stick here
And it can't get me down
'cause I was meant to be
Nothing but a small town boy
Well~
You dance all night
Sleep all day
Life to you is just like
A little child at play
You're living life that you think is so sweet
But what ya gonna do
When they bury you six feet deep?
Take your city
I'll take my town
I'll stay here
And it won't get me down
I was meant to be
Nothing but a small town boy.
(musical interlude)
Well you sleep all day
You dance all night
Life to you is just like
A little child at play
Oh, living life that you think is so sweet
But what ya gonna do
When they bury you six feet deep?
Well you take your city
I guess we'll take our town
We'll stay here in Springfield
It won't get us down
I was meant to be
Nothing but a small town boy. * John (Be-Bop) Brown, Florence Adams, Dave Bedell,
D. Clinton Thompson, Don Shipps
Submitted by Stacy Willhoit in Memory of Bill and Don
Note: I have had such a difficult time deciding on a song for this page...I finally just became able to listen to Don and Billy's recordings again and today I stumbled
upon this tape Don gave Mark. We believe it is one of the last recordings Be-Bop made before his passing. This song "Small Town Boy" (written by Dallas Bartley)
really touched me, making me think about how Don and Billy always came home no matter how 'big' they got in the music business. Their talents reached far and wide in the music world, yet they always remained 'Small Town Boys'.
They loved us and we loved them. And I also felt that dedicating a song sung by Be-Bop was particularly fitting as he is certainly yet another Springfield Music Legend, who is, I'm sure, jamming with Don
and Bill again now! |
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Hard Times
by Ray Charles
My mother told me,
'fore she passed away,
Said son, when I'm gone,
Don't forget to pray
'cause there'll be hard times,
There'll be hard times,
Who knows better than I?
I soon found out,
Just what she meant,
When I had to pawn my clothes,
Just to pay the rent,
Talkin' 'bout hard times,
Lord those hard times,
Who knows better than I?
Oh Lord, one of these days,
There'll be no sorrow,
For when I pass away,
There'll be no more hard times,
No more hard, hard times,
Who knows better than I?
Submitted by Marti Kirwin in Memory of Bill and Don |
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