Muswell Hillbilly - The Kinks

Composed by：Ray Davies

Well I said goodbye to Rosie Rooke this morning

I'm gonna miss her bloodshot alcoholic eyes

She wore her Sunday hat so she'd impress me

I'm gonna carry her memory 'til the day I die

They'll move me up to Muswell Hill tomorrow

Photographs and souvenirs are all I've got

They're gonna try and make me change my way of living

But they'll never make me something that I'm not

'Cause I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy

But my heart lies in Old West Virginia

Never seen New Orleans Oklahoma Tennessee

Still I dream of those black hills that I ain't never seen

They're putting us in identical little boxes

No character just uniformity

They're trying to build a computerized community

But they'll never make a Zombie out of me

They'll try and make me study elocution

Because they say my accent isn't right

They can clear the slums as part of their solution

But they're never gonna kill my cockney pride

'Cause I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy

But my heart lies in old West Virginia

Though my hills they're not green I've seen them in my dreams

Take me back to those black hills that I ain't never seen

Well I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy

But my heart lies in old West Virginia

Though my hills they're not green I've seen them in my dreams

Take me back to those black hills that I ain't never seen