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An American Boyfriend
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AN AMERICAN BOYFRIEND
Su Ling is in this country
Looking for a new way of life
She's looking hard at looking for work
It's starting to get her down
But in her letters to her mother and father
She tells them not to believe
Everything they might read in the papers
Cause America is beautiful
When America is free
And things will be getting better
As soon as I get me
An American Boyfriend
Everybody's talking foreign
I don't understand the language
She thinks she might be picking up phrases
But nothing she can use in conversation
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Su Ling is so confused
In the land of opportunity
She sees the natives out of work
She wonder if she'll ever fit in.
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Nervous Individual
02:51
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NERVOUS INDIVIDUAL
An emotional reaction
By a nervous individual
Stopped the clocks of reason
And left me standing here
They said it was freezing
When you're by yourself
No one's pumping the heart
And there's no one left to tell
That you're a nervous individual ticking away
That you're a nervous individual and a crowd all by yourself
Self concerned with preservation
You scare them off
With ease like
You are playing for keeps
Never in their dreams
have they seen a human being
With such intensity
You oughtta see 'em run
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And the earth keeps moving under your feet
You're a nervous individual and a crowd all by yourself
You take a slap in the face too personally
I would never had said a word had I known
Too scared to talk much you hold things in
Till it get unbearable then you explode unexpectedly
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Jeff Smith Virginia
Inspired and influenced by early country, blues, rock and pop
Jeff Smith writes songs and tells elongated and elliptical
stories about them. Jeff's Appalachian drawl slides in and around his guitar playing and Smith says “on a good night the stories and songs swing on top of a funky kind of country blues pop stomp”. Now residing in the swamps of Virginia, Smith performs club gigs and
concerts.
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