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Broadway Street

from Looking for a Perfect Trip by Rod Johnson

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I went down to Broadway Street just looking for a meal
But it was coffee shops and brewpubs serving basil-crusted veal
This used to be a cowboy town, honky tonks and flops and rodeos
But now that town has vanished and where it’s gone, nobody knows

Wandering down Broadway in the unforgiving sun
Singing songs that no one wants to hear
There was a time this felt like home but now that time is done
And there’s a lot of homeless cowboys around here

I used to make a living singing in the Broadway bars
Songs of love and loneliness beneath the desert stars
But now they’re full of college kids, and all they want to do is dance
And if that ain’t your style, you haven’t got a chance

Wandering down Broadway in the unforgiving sun
Singing songs that no one wants to hear
There was a time this felt like home but now that time is done
And there’s a lot of homeless cowboys around here

Hey, friend, can I play you a song
It won’t take very long
Time was you could hear it on the radio
It was not so very long ago

Headed up toward Front Street to Billy’s Liquor Store
But all I found was condos, there’s no Billy’s anymore
Thought I might just drown myself but the riverbed was dry
Now I walk down Broadway Street and no one looks me in the eye

Wandering down Broadway in the unforgiving sun
Singing songs that no one wants to hear
There was a time this felt like home but now that time is done
And there’s a lot of homeless cowboys around here

There was a time this felt like home but now that time is done
And there’s a lot of homeless cowboys around here

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from Looking for a Perfect Trip, released September 1, 2021

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Singer, songwriter, not really a singer-songwriter though. Just trying to make something good.

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