Sweet Birmingham

from The Oaks That Still Stand by Dave Carroll

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Fond recollections of industrial Birmingham in the 1950's: pure nostalgia tinged with bitter-sweet reflection. Echoes of Lynyrd Skynyrd in the sentiment and musical style.

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This is the chorus of my Birmingham song :
Sweet, Sweet Birmingham
It’s very easy, please sing along :
Sweet, Sweet Birmingham, Sweet, Sweet Birmingham

This was the city of a thousand trades
Where bits and pieces of the empire were made
The factory where the metal monster was grown
And the seeds of her own destruction were sown

Out of the ashes of the Second World War
Came reconstruction like never before
: Displaced the people to the outskirts of town
To high up, from where they could all look down on

Sweet Birmingham, four thousand miles from Alabam’
I’m coming home in a Transit van to you,
Sweet, Sweet Birmingham, Sweet, Sweet Birmingham

The silversmiths and the makers of chains
Relentless traffic of barges and trains
The busy bodies on buses and trams
Moms down the Bull Ring pushing their prams

The quiet dignity of labour and toil
The smell of iron, the fragrance of oil
But those who pulled on the levers of power
Capitulated to the motor car

Sweet, Sweet Birmingham…….etc

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from The Oaks That Still Stand, released December 12, 2016

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Dave Carroll England, UK

Dave Carroll is a composer and singer-songwriter with wide experience in Classical, Rock and Folk music. Well known in Birmingham’s vibrant rock scene of the 1970s he was for many years a resident guitarist with The Royal Shakespeare Company, later co-founded the alternative folk trio 'Soundboard' and now composes, collaborates and occasionally performs in a little mountain town in Canada. ... more

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