Town With No Cheer Lyrics - Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces 

there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier 

there'll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo 

from melbourne to adelaide on the overlander 

with newfangled buffet cars and faster locomotives 

the train stopped in serviceton 

less and less often 

There's nothing sadder than a town with no cheer 

vic rail decided the canteen was no longer necessary there 

no spirits, no bilgewater and 80 dry locals 

and the high noon sun beats a hundred and four 

there's a hummingbird 

trapped in a closed down shoe store 

This tiny victorian rhubarb 

kept the watering hole open for sixty five years 

now it's boilin' in a miserable march 21st 

wrapped the hills in a blanket 

of patterson's curse 

the train smokes down the xylophone 

there'll be no stopping here 

all ya can be is thirsty in a town with no cheer 

No bourbon, no branchwater 

though the townspeople here 

fought her vic rail decree tooth and nail 

now it's boilin' in a miserable march 21 st 

wrapped the hills in a blanket 

of patterson's curse 

the train smokes down the xylophone 

there'll be no stopping here 

all ya can be is thirsty in a town with no cheer 

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tom waits: vocal harmonium, synthesizer, freedom bell 

anthony clark stewart: bag pipes 

clark spangler: synthesizer program 

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