Key: D
Introduction:
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Velvet pants and a big top hat
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It's a little hot to be dressed like that
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Down near the war memorial he's propped
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In a big balck cape and twelve hole docs
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Now he almost made his auntie faint
When he stopped at the chemist for some black nail paint
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I heard his mother and his father say
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"What possessed the boy to dress that way?"
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But don't you try and bring him down
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He's a lonely goth in a country town
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Now his father's family settled here
In another time, it was a long gone year
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I heard his mother and his father say
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"What possessed the boy to dress that way?"
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And what will the blokes at the bottom pub say
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And the women down at her CWA?
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But don't you try and bring him down
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He's a lonely goth in a country town
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To dress like that around here you guess
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That he likes being close to death
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He doesn't like footy, he doesn't like cars
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He didn't mind Coppolla's Dracula
One day he'll be rid of this place
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I heard his mother and his father say
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"What possessed the boy to dress that way?"
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And what will the blokes at the top pub say
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And the women down at her CWA?
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But it's eye of newt and it's tounge of bat
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As he walks around town with his mum's black cat
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And if you'd been through all he's been through
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Then you'd turn white and you'd frown too
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He's the bravest boy behind the frown
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Of a lonely goth in a country town
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He's evoked the wrath of a country town
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He's the only one for miles around
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It's a shearing town
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Or a mining town
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A quite little country town
Tabbed: Damien Murtagh