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[ar:Dave Alvin]
[ti:Gary, Indiana 1959]
[00:00.00]Gary, Indiana 1959 - Dave Alvin
[00:10.06]I'm old weak and grey and i'm running out of time
[00:17.46]Yeah but you should have seen me brother
[00:20.78]When i was young and in my prime
[00:25.58]Back in gary indiana in 1959
[00:33.54]I was a steel working man with 2 kids and loving wife
[00:41.56]And the union was strong smokestacks burning day and night
[00:49.33]Back in gary indiana in 1959
[00:57.23]But then the accountants and lawyers and bosses at u s steel
[01:01.66]Sent down the word we had to take their rotten deal
[01:05.22]But from birmingham to pueblo oakland to allentown
[01:09.47]The workers got together and we shut the big boys down
[01:13.88]The president and supreme court tried to force us off the line
[01:20.75]Back in gary indiana in 1959
[01:52.08]The 59 years disappeared in the blink of an eye
[01:56.42]And i feel like a stranger in world that isn't mine
[02:00.42]My dear wife died my kids all moved away
[02:04.22]Cause there's nothing round here to make them want to stay
[02:08.13]Cause the factories are in ruins decent jobs are hard to find
[02:12.18]And you can't get ahead no matter how hard you try
[02:15.94]Cause the big boys make the rules tough luck for everyone else
[02:19.94]And out on the streets brother it's every man for himself
[02:24.49]I still remember when we marched side by side
[02:31.55]Back in gary indiana in 1959
[03:26.30]Don't bury my body brother when it's my time to die
[03:34.19]Just throw me in that smelter let my ashes fly
[03:41.95]Back home to gary indiana in 1959
[03:49.83]Back to gary indiana in 1959