Adelaide
(Paul Kelly)
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The wisteria on the back verandah is still blooming
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And all the great aunts are either insane or dead
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Kensington Road runs straight for a while before turning
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We lived on the bend it was there I was raised and fed
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Counting and running as I go
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Down past the hedges all in a row
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In Adelaide, Adelaide In Adelaide, Adelaide
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Dad's hands used to shake but I never knew he was dying
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I was thirteen I never dreamed he could fall
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And all the great aunts were red in the eyes from crying
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I rang the bells I never felt nothing at all
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All the king's horses all the king's men
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Cannot bring him back again
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Do do do do Do do do do Do do do do do do do do
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Do do do do Do do do do Do do do do do do do do
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Find me a bar or a girl or guitar
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where do you go on a Saturday night?
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I own this town I spilled my wine at the
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bottom of the statue of Colonel Light
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And the streets are so wide everybody's inside
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Sitting in the same chairs they were sitting in last year
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(This is my town!)
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All the king's horses all the king's men
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Wouldn't drag me back again
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to Adelaide, Adelaide, Adelaide, Adelaide...
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