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Spoken Word Intro:
What we're talking about here is kind of a...it's a...Heartland Feeling.
Mellencamp, you know, kind of a Mellen-feeling.
Ok. What you gotta get together is a Heartland folk singer:
John Couger Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seeger;
That type of feeling: a Mellen-feeling.
You know, a real powerful, approving music
Of a Heartland quality, just powerful straight-forward music.
And if you can't get just the right type of feeling
Find someone who will pass and change them.
COld Man Johnson got his head in his hand
CMakin' his way across state in a fiddlin' band
With his hair aAmll down in his eyes
And the microphoneC all covered with flies.
CWhen he gets done playin' goes back to his room
CClimbs into bed in his cowboy boots
And he picks up Ama magazine turns on the TV
CLights a cigar as he's fallin' asleep.
Well he's only a pFerson...wCho doesn'Amt know shit.
Yeah nothing hFappenin'...thatC's abouAmt it.
CYeah......
CWell, little Rosanna came from Texarkana
CHad fourteen dollars wrapped in a bandana.
AmCame into town not lookin' for much
Well she found a hCound dog and she named him "Dutch."
CShe got a job at the arcade takin' quarters
CBut she was never too good at takin' orders
So one nighAmt she stopped givin' out change
She kickCed the boss in the chin and unplugged the games.
She's onlFy a person...whCo doesn'Amt know shit.
FNothin' happCenin'...That'sAm about it.
COoh, ooh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
CSam got canned at the cannery
CHe punched out the clock that night.
His Amknuckle was bleeding as he walked home,
He was cold Cand he had a headache.
CWell his wife was cookin' canned beans,
CHe took out all the money out of his jeans
And he set it Amon fire in the kitchen sink
As his wifeC handed him a drink.
He was oFnly a person...whoC didn't Amknow shit.
NoFthin' happeCnin'...that'Ams about it.
Uh, yeahC, oh. Wooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...
CSmiley was lookin' for handouts
Sleepin' in a abandoned lighthouse.
AmDown at the mini-mall shakin' his hat
CWashin' windows with his bare hand.
CHe found a sports car with the keys
CIn the ignition it just seemed so easy.
HeAm took a joyride drove into a hedge
CCame out with the steering wheel wrapped around his head.
Well he's Fonly a person...Cwho doesn't Amknow shit.
FNothin' happeninC'...that'Ams about it.
COoh, ooh, yeah, yeah.
CWell Jane was born in a small town
CEverybody just standing around.
They had bingo gaAmmes and a raffle,
CEverybody chewin' tobacco.
CWell she grew up kinda restless
CAll her boyfriends wanted to be dentists(dead-ass?).
And sAmhe got a job at the truck stop
And she got all fasCt and never did what she wanted
And she's only Fa person...whoC doesn't kAmnow shit.
NothFing happenin'..C.that's aAmbout it.
CYeah, yeah, yo...
COh yeah...oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh.
CWoo, ooh, ooh....
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