Lost Song Of The Day 9/10

[jpkansas]

"My City Was Gone" - The Pretenders (1983)

went back to ohio
But my city was gone
There was no train station
There was no downtown
South howard had disappeared
All my favorite places
My city had been pulled down
Reduced to parking spaces
A, o, way to go ohio

Well I went back to ohio
But my family was gone
I stood on the back porch
There was nobody home
I was stunned and amazed
My childhood memories
Slowly swirled past
Like the wind through the trees
A, o, oh way to go ohio

I went back to ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And muzak filled the air
From seneca to cuyahoga falls
Said, a, o, oh way to go ohio

[m c dornan]

The song Chrissie Hynde didn't want Rush Limbaugh to use as a theme song for his show. (quite rightly so)

[jpkansas]

mcdornan1 said:

The song Chrissie Hynde didn't want Rush Limbaugh to use as a theme song for his show. (quite rightly so)

From Wikipedia:

"The powerful riff from this song would become the introductory music to Rush Limbaugh's popular American talk radio program. The message of the song, interpreted by conservative listeners as a stab at the problems associated with changing American values, was used without permission for many years. After some negotiating Hynde decided to let Limbaugh continue to use it, with Limbaugh donating royalties from it to the animal rights organisation PETA."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_City_Was_Gone

[KittyKat - RIP Luciano]

A Pretenders classic! I hadn't heard the outcome of the whole Rush thing but I think it's a good solution.

[Dawn]

Quite a few good tracks from the Learning to Crawl album, including this one. The lyrics paint a very vivid picture.

[Ken]

Among The Pretenders best!

[SAT-I need more room!!]

Not a bad tune, but not among my top faves from them.