Hey there folks, this is Bob T. Guevara, making old and new music for all of you. Political, poetical, sensitive, funny, and whatever else you like.
Story behind the song
I wrote this when I was over in Canada and I saw many hitchhikers there. And many great people.
Lyrics
RAMBLIN' GIRL by Bob T. Guevara
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I left Vancouver this morning headin' for the east.
C G /c G
This time I got outta there by my own will at least.
C D
It was right outside of Hope, the last buildings just passed by
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When a little figure held her thumb towards the sky.
She looked like a mixture of a hippie and a punk.
Anyways she wasn't covered with all that mainstream junk.
So I picked her up and asked:"where are yu headin' for, my dear?"
"Wherever, I don't care", she said, "just outta here."
So we started going north, heading for the skys
But she just stared outta the window with the sun burnin' in her eyes.
When I asked her what her place was, in this ragged world,
She said with a brave look:"I'm just a ramblin' girl."
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That ramblin' girl is so free
C G
She's just how I'd like to be
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But I'm a slave of this world
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The only one free is that ramblin' girl.
I felt like beeing carried back to the good old days
When people just kept rambling 'round from place to place.
But in this cruel world, I could find me no home
No free place no matter, how far I did roam.
And suddenly she looked at me and said, as if reading my mind:
"Don't ya also dream sometimes of a world of some other kind?
Ya know, one where all the people could live free
No matter whether they look different or alike you and me.
A world without guns and without fear,
Yes, a peaceful world without oceans of tears.
A world without money, with everybody as mighty and rich,
As the poor weak hobo, laiing in his ditch."
"Yes, indeed", I said,"I have this dream too,
But I always wake up and just don't know what to do."
"Oh, it's easy", she said,"just be yourself,
Don't suck up to their so-called wealth."
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So let us all become so free,
Let's open our eyes and see,
That we can change this dirty world
And live as free as the ramblin' girl.
