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Big Car - No Shoes

from Life On The Trapeze by Neil Porter

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"Big Car - No Shoes" is an oblquely political song, aimed at the paucity of informed comment in the Australian press and parliament these days.

Boy Wonder Jem Savage lifted the whole thing well beyond what we had envisaged with his soprano sax and Rhodes piano.

Recorded at The Shed and mixed/mastered at Jiguma Studio in Pambula Beach, NSW Australia.

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Big Car – No Shoes
©2012 Neil Porter

Big hat – no cattle
Big sky – but no rain
Nice horse – no saddle
Got a ticket – no plane
Nice wedding – wrong person
Cool Gibson – no blues
Best schools – no learning
Big car – no shoes

Bad war – losing battle
Big smile – you’re in pain
Big bucks – big hassle
Nice tune – but no fame
Nice wedding – wrong person
Cool Gibson – no blues
Best schools – no learning
Big car – no shoes

Big car – no shoes
Big car – no shoes

Good minders – bad manners
Fast rail – slow train
Low bar – flame fanners
Big head – no brain
Nice wedding – wrong person
Cool Gibson – no blues
Best schools – no learning
Big car – no shoes

Big car – no shoes
Big car – no shoes

credits

from Life On The Trapeze, released December 12, 2012
Jem Savage - 1971 Fender Rhodes Piano and Soprano Saxophone.
Peter Reid – Drums
Ken Vatcher - Percussion
Neil Porter - Vocals, Guitar, "Hammond B3", Bass

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Singer songwriter from Pambula Beach in Australia.

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