This is a song about a bar in Baltimore, MD. Cheryl's sister took her there one evening when Cheryl was back home visiting. They were just going to stop in briefly so that Cheryl could see the place, but they ended up staying the whole night.
- Shanty Town
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- My sister took me 'round for an evenin' on the town
- Where all the locals sang the songs our parents knew
- Just an organ and a drummer were the band
- And there was hardly even any room to stand
- They sang like Elvis Presley and Al Jolson too
- All the ladies had platinum bouffants on their heads
- Polyester outfits greens and reds
- Standin where the crowd sits singin' a song or three
- They say "You don't have to sing when you're all alone,
- Come and have a drink and a microphone"
- Funny when I think how it felt like home to me
- (Chorus)
- They sang Bye Bye Blackbird, Tootsie Haven't You Heard, That Old Gang Of Mine
- It's all down in Shanty Town, My Funny Valentine
- So if you're missin' all the old songs
- Come and to the cure
- In a little bar down in east baltimore
- Now what a time they had
- Some were so good, some were so bad
- And they never stopped ‘til closin' came around
- And the picture stays with me
- Of that Baltimore jamboree
- And I will go back there the next time I'm in town.
- (Chorus)
- 7/26/81
- (P) January 8, 1997
- Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
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