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When you go down into the Old Carbon Town, wear the rabbit foot taught around your neck
When you hear the sound from the Old Carbon Town, pack tight your ears with the blocks of wax
Wax to muffle all the rabble taggle sounds, hollow as a tooth eaten inside out,
Many who go into the Old Carbon Town, never come back leaving healthy tracks…

(Chorus x4) Do da do, do da do da do – do da do, do da do, da do...

Never look down in the Old Carbon Town, only look up into the grey chalk clouds; those who look down while in the Old Carbon Town are often sucked down and drown, drown, drown, drown
All the Tarmac tracks in the Old Carbon Town lead to various doors and various wells,
Many they have followed in the Old Carbon Town, but all the doors and the wells are friends of hell!

(Chorus x4) Do da do, do da do da do – do da do, do da do, da do...

Frown, frown, frown, in the Old Carbon Town
Every face covered by a bad day scowl
March like ants to the pyramid towers, when the day is done buy your sweetheart flowers
Let them all droop and dry, dry, dry, dry – next day comes and it’s a brand new pie
Bake, bake, bake until the day you die – never did matter cause yer soul long flied!

(Chorus x4) Do da do, do da do da do – do da do, do da do, da do...

Well, ya know yer friend Bud went to the Old Carbon Town, ‘n your friend bud went the wrong way round
Now he looks twenty years older than you, and all of his words are like an unfilled shoe
A shoe which he never checked to see if it fit – a shoe he only keeps cause he likes the look of it!

(Chorus x4) Do da do, do da do da do – do da do, do da do, da do...

And my friend Jim Payne went to the Old Carbon Town,
My friend Jim Payne wandered round, round, round
Up he was swooped by a black suit gang, and now he pushes pencils in a devils tower

(Fade out) when you go down into the Old Carbon Town, wear the rabbit foot taught around your neck
When you hear the sound from the Old Carbon Town, pack tight your ears with the blocks of wax
Wax to muffle all the rabble taggle sounds, hollow as a tooth eaten inside out….. (Etc)

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from Songs Of The Hollow Bone Moon (songs only), released August 20, 2014

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Pete and the Tar Gang Melbourne, Australia

Pete and the Tar Gang (2006 to 2011) made songs about the sea, obsession, the wild man, ghosts, love gone wrong, post apocalyptic scenarios, the sublimely self deluded and characters pushed to various extremes.
The musical styles are as diverse as blues, folk, rock and operatic cabaret.
The Tar Gang was a posse taking various shapes, according to the material mined by Pete. ... more

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