{"id":857,"date":"2017-01-05T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/?p=857"},"modified":"2017-01-08T15:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T15:57:52","slug":"my-little-town-the-story-behind-the-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/2017\/01\/05\/my-little-town-the-story-behind-the-song\/","title":{"rendered":"My Little Town &#8211; the story behind the song"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F301078615&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;color=false&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">MY LITTLE TOWN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">There&#8217;s a road runs straight through my little town<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Half way down it there&#8217;s a picture house<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Now they&#8217;ve turned it into a bingo hall<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> They don&#8217;t show films any more<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And the road runs straight through my little town<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> The road runs straight through my little town<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">There&#8217;s a railway line in my little town<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> All the kids do is talk of getting out<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Stand on the platforms on a Saturday<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">With the lights of the city shining far away<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The pubs are empty until the Saturday night<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Half past eleven you&#8217;re guaranteed a fight<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> What else can those poor boys do<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> But get blind drunk and act the fool<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And the road runs straight through my little town<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Through my little town<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Far away<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To build up to the release of the <strong>Black Tin Barns and River Ghosts<\/strong> cassette I writing a daily blog of each song and what I trying to do and influences etc.<\/p>\n<p>Also where appropriate embedding tracks where other artists have covered the song.<\/p>\n<p>The first track above is &#8216;My Little Town&#8217; from 1995.<\/p>\n<p>This was re-recorded with different tune by James McSweeney who now trading under the name Cole Cullen out of Oregon USA.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of his versions of the song as recorded for the<a href=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/tstar\/?page_id=26\"> Moon Over The Downs <\/a>compilation of 2003.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=1363681018\/album=1052185348\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>For latest James McSweeney \/ Cole Cullen music visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colecullen.com\">http:\/\/www.colecullen.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was listening to a lot of James McMurtry ( Larry McMurtry&#8217;s son and playing at The Maze in Nottingham in February!) and John Prine as well as usual suspects like John Hiatt and Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, I like the song because it an affectionate portrait of my &#8216;one-horse&#8217; home town which actually did have a picture-house ( or movie-theater depending which version you listen to) called the New Coronet which still stands but now a Bingo Hall as the song states.<\/p>\n<p>Here old and new pictures of cinemas in Didcot. Plus lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/moon\/coronet.JPG?resize=410%2C300\" width=\"410\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000066; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;\"><b>My Little Town (James McSweeney rewrite version)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000066; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;\">There&#8217;s a road that runs straight through my little town<br \/>\nA movie theatre about half way down in my little town<br \/>\nBut now they&#8217;ve turned it into a bingo palace<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t show films there no more, no more<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000066; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;\">There&#8217;s a railway line runs through my little town<br \/>\nAnd all the kids can think about is getting out of this little town<br \/>\nSee them on the platform on a Saturday night<br \/>\nAbout half past eleven there&#8217;ll always be a fight<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000066; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;\">What can a poor boy do<br \/>\nBut get drunk and play the fool<br \/>\nIn my little town, in my little town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This my earliest version of song from a reel to reel tape in early 1990s I expect.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=3715433066\/album=2550450576\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-857 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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