Connor Laidlaw and Harry Wooldridge - Don't Turn Your Back

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Don’t Turn Your Back

E A
Born and raised in Cleveland Ohio
E A
With seven brothers and three sisters was all about survival
E A
Drive down in our wagon and we’d gather up the bread,
E A
Dumped there by the big old trucks, in a big old shed

Chorus:
B E
Don’t turn your back for a moment, or the food will be gone
A E
Gone Gone, The food will be gone

The family was so big they had to eat in shifts,
Tyre tracks on the loaves of bread didn’t matter a bit
But the bread had a special smell that wouldn’t go away
It stayed inside our bodies and came right out to stay

The bully Clifford Bueller, he was big and dumb
He’d try to push the kids around he wondered where the smell came from
The tyres burning down the road, she’d always say
Buy him off in lollies and send him on his way

Too much of anything, can be bad for you
But when you haven’t got that much there’s not much you can do
Always eat the leftovers even okra soup,
Reading late for Sundaes
An innocence of youth

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from Musical Memories Volume 1, released October 24, 2013
Don't Turn Your Back, based on a story told by Kathy Mueller.
Drums performed by Peter Robb.
Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Dave Walker.
Artwork and project co-ordination, additional songwriting and instrumentation by Dave Walker.

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