歌曲名 Town With No Cheer

歌手名 Tom Waits

作词：Tom Waits

作曲：Tom Waits

Well it's hotter blazes

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

Voc 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 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 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 cheer