Name: Oil City Blues
Duration: 4 min 27 s
Channel: Scott A. Brady

Oil City Blues

Scott A Brady

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Scott A Brady

Hi I'm , A.K.A. . You can listen to a mix of songs listed under both bands by I've been playing guitar and writing songs for a few years now. I don't have a band yet, and most of the songs I've written I've recorded solo with one of my acoustic guitars. As far as effects, I mostly use just a little compression and noise reduction...so these recordings sound pretty much as it would if I were playing live in the room with you.

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Genre

Blues • Blues General

Charts

#5,276 today Peak #94

#2,264 in subgenre Peak #39

Author

Scott A. Brady

Rights

2005

Uploaded

October 25, 2006

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MP3 4.1 MB • 128 kbps • 4:27

Lyrics

I say can you build me something of oil
that will not just fall to the ground?
up in the montains of Pennsylvannia
they built a whole damn town
Many men died and a few got rich
then the oil, it went away
where did it go? nobody knows,
but the town is still there today

it's Oil City.....
I've got the Oil City blues

If you hunt or you fish 
or a place to raise kids
Oil City's a wonderfull town
It's got streets with red bricks
and trees that drop sticks
but good jobs are sure hard to be found
On the north side, and south side,
and east end and west end
and all of the parts of town
There are churches and bars and police cars
all of them filled with clowns

it's Oil City.....
I've got the Oil City blues

There used to be jobs for any poor slob
and everything was so fine
I'm not sure what happened 
but things took a crap and
before I knew I had lost mine
when you ain't got no money
shit ain't so funny
and paying the bills is a pain
I was in need so I took to the streets
and I sold me some mary jane

In Oil City.....
I've got the Oil City blues

First the judge was on coke
then the cops took my smoke
and I was trying to walk the line
I fell on my face and I felt a disgrace
and I swear it's the last damned time
and the preacher man say
son don't loose your faith
everything will be fine
but I can't hardly think
so I have one more drink
and I swear i'm loosing my mind

in Oil City
I've got the Oil City blues

now I'm headed on down the road
don't have no place to go
but I know where I come from
That town is still in my heart
and always will be part
of everything that I have done.
The tax man he say 
re-appraise property
so he can raise the mill
no choice for me
I got to leave
I can't pay my bills

in Oil City
I've got the Oil City blues

Ain't got no choice when it's leave or loose.

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