old time country halls

as i pick up my guitar to sing another song

i hear the walls of this old hall - you've done this thing too long

you know you've been around for years

i guess you've shown us all

i talk like this when i reminisce with an old time country hall

i joined a tent show as a kid with a dream and an old guitar

the silvers all-star cavalcade and dandy was the star

he taught me lots about the game

today i understand

he was a great magician

dandy was a fine old man

i'm a howlin' cattle-hand crooner

i'm an old time dinosaur

hey

let me sing where the rafters ring

in an old time country hall

that's right

i've been on the road for thirty years but dandy could double that

and you'll find his faded poster still in some hall way out back

i like to go back stage and dream sometimes and just recall

the shows i've had

the good and bad

shared with these country halls

take the old town hall kalgoorlie with it's old time charm and grace

and your mounting million complexes never will replace

all glass and steal and concrete

some large and some too small

so let me sing where the rafters ring in an old time country hall

hey

we showed last night in the school of arts and the town was real run-down

you'll find so many towns like that today as you move around

yeah

the wind of change is blowin' up such an economic low

the old time shows we used to know will soon be off the road

i'm a howlin' cattle-hand crooner

i'm an old time dinosaur

hey

let me sing where the rafters ring

in an old time country hall

in an old time country hall

in an old time country hall