Name: Mad City
Duration: 3 min 24 s
Channel: Ervin Allen Carpenter
Description: "Mad City" is a song by Ervin Allen. Rock

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Ervin Allen

Ervin Allen is a singer-songwriter currently based in Linden, Wisconsin. Erv is a baby boomer born in 1949 and has lived the evolution of American music.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Country-Pop

Charts

Peak #193

Peak in subgenre #40

Author

Ervin Allen Carpenter

Rights

Uploaded

September 21, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 3:24

Story behind the song

This is a song about my hometown, Madison, Wisconsin.  I have done a historical walk through of my life in Mad City with the focus being on Viet Nam an unpopular war that encompassed most of my life while growing up in Madison.

I sang this for the first time on 6/29/06 at the University of Madison Terrace open mic.  This song went over very well.

Lyrics

Well I grew up in a great place to get down.
Right here in Mad City.
Where you could drink your beer.
Do it all right here, feeling safe in Mad City.

The best year of all, 1967
I turned eighteen in Mad City.
I rang the Three Bells.
Raised a little hell in the streets of Mad City.

And through it all I had one hell of a ball, growing up in Mad City.
Wanting to be older but still too young Viet Nam it was a pity.

I use to wake up to 106
Clyde be rocking Mad City.
Hang out on State Street looking at all the chicks 
And get drunk down at the Nitty Gritty.

Johnny Logan’s use to rock all night long
To say the least it was gritty.
Paul stood tall he told them all
And protested here in Mad City.
 
And through it all I had one hell of a ball, fell in love in Mad City.
Wanting to be older but still too young Viet Nam it was a pity.

In 1968 I picked up the gun.
To defend my Mad City.
When I retuned I was all messed up.
I tried to get it right in Mad City.

Now that I’m older I want to be young.
Trying to deal with fifty.
Young people I see are just like me 
They’ll be in my place when I’m sixty.

And through it all I had one hell of a ball, growing up in Mad City.
Wanting to be older but still too young Viet Nam it was a pity.

I met the girl I love she was sent from above.
She walked into my life when I was twenty.
Throughout the years we been right here
Making love in Mad City.

Well I grew up in a great place to get down
Right here in Mad City.
Where you can drink your beer.
Do it all right here, feeling safe in Mad City.

And through it all I had one hell of a ball, fell in love in Mad City.
Wanting to be older but still too young and Iraq is now the pity

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