Muswell Hillbilly

Written by: Ray Davies

Published by: Davray Music Ltd.

Chord file

Lyrics:

Well I said goodbye to Rosie Rooke this morning,
I'm gonna miss her bloodshot alcoholic eyes,
She wore her Sunday hat so she'd impress me,
I'm gonna carry her memory 'til the day I die.

They'll move me up to Muswell Hill tomorrow,
Photographs and souvenirs are all I've got,
They're gonna try and make me change my way of living,
But they'll never make me something that I'm not.

Cos I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy,
But my heart lies in old West Virginia,
Never seen New Orleans, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
Still I dream of the Black Hills that I ain't never seen.

They're putting us in identical little boxes,
No character just uniformity,
They're trying to build a computerised community,
But they'll never make a zombie out of me.

They'll try and make me study elocution,
Because they say my accent isn't right,
They can clear the slums as part of their solution,
But they're never gonna kill my cockney pride.

Cos I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy,
But my heart lies in Old West Virginia,
Though my hills, they're not green,
I've seen them in my dreams,
Take me back to those Black Hills,
That I ain't never seen.

Well I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy,
But my heart lies in Old West Virginia,
Though my hills, they're not green,
I've seen them in my dreams,
Take me back to those Black Hills,
That I ain't never seen.

This song can be found on the following releases:

stereo mix (4:55), recorded Aug-Sep 1971 at Morgan Studios, Willesden, London

stereo mix, shortened edit (3:48), recorded Aug-Sep 1971 at Morgan Studios, Willesden, London

live, stereo mix (3:21), recorded 2 Mar, 1972 at Carnegie Hall, New York

live, stereo mix (3:49), recorded 3 Mar, 1972 at Carnegie Hall, New York

live, stereo mix, LP plug edited out of intro (3:04), recorded 3 Mar, 1972 at Carnegie Hall, New York

live, stereo mix, recorded 11 Apr, 1994 at Konk Studios, Hornsey, London

stereo mix, by The Kast Off Kinks, recorded Sep 2001 at GCMP Studios, Hoddesdon, England

stereo mix, by Tim O'Brien, recorded 2002

stereo mix, by The Kast Off Kinks (3:05), recorded 18-19 Feb 2013 at Roundel Studios, Horton Kirby, Kent

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