Gas City, Indiana - That's My Hometown

Описание: [Intro – Piano Boogie / Handclaps]

Well come on everybody clap your hands tonight!
Take a little trip to Indiana under neon lights!
Where the river keeps on rollin’ and the jukebox plays around…
Gas City, Indiana…
Yeah that’s my hometown!

[Verse 1]

On the east side of the Mississinewa flow
Native folks called it Falling Water long ago
Before the streets and the café signs
Just forest trails and simpler times
Back when Harrisburg was the town’s old name
Three hundred folks and a simple game
Noah Harris trading furs and dreams
Running his store by the river stream

[Chorus – Big Sock-Hop Harmony]

Gas City, Indiana, my hometown
Hear the swing band jumping when the sun goes down
From timber trails to a railroad line
Got that Hoosier rhythm running through these roots of mine
Gas City, Indiana, shout it proud
Little town dancing in a jukebox crowd
From falling water to the factory sound
Gas City, Indiana … my hometown!

[Verse 2 – Walking Bass / Sax Riffs]

Then the railroad whistle cut the air
Wood-burnin’ engines stopping there
Walnut logs stacked tall and high
Sawmill smoke in the Indiana sky
Hardwood forests far as you could see
Mill Township building industry

[Chorus – Bigger Swing]

Gas City, Indiana, my hometown
Hear the swing band jumping when the sun goes down
From timber trails to a railroad line
Got that Hoosier rhythm running through these roots of mine
Gas City, Indiana, strong and proud
History living in a small town crowd
From falling water to the gas underground
Gas City, Indiana … my hometown!

[Bridge – Slow Doo-Wop Style]

Then one spring day in 1889
Drillin’ down by the cemetery line
The ground woke up with a thunder sound
Natural gas shooting from the ground
Boomtown rising overnight
Turned that quiet town into bright new lights

[Final Chorus – Big Band Sock-Hop Finale]

Gas City, Indiana, my hometown
Hear the saxophones wail when the sun goes down
From timber trails to a railroad line
Got that Hoosier rhythm running through these roots of mine
Gas City, Indiana, proud and loud
Opportunity in a dancing crowd
From falling water to the gas underground
Gas City, Indiana… my hometown!

[Outro – Swing Tag]

Yeah the river keeps rollin’
And the band keeps playin’ that sound…
Gas City, Indiana…
My hometown!

[Piano glissando – sax hit – fade]