Name: Stranger in a Strange Land
Duration: P00H05M40S
Description: This is a song about someone roughly my height & weight growing up thru the glory days of the 50's & 60's, now trying to adjust to what is going on in this brave new world... & not having much luck. I recorded what I thought was a pretty good version of it, then my buddy Dion asked if he could mess with it. He turned it into a Swamp classic!! I said "why didn't I think of that"???

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Bobby Valentine

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This is a song about someone roughly my height & weight growing up thru the glory days of the 50's & 60's, now trying to adjust to what is going on in this brave new world... & not having much luck. I recorded what I thought was a pretty good version of it, then my buddy Dion asked if he could mess with it. He turned it into a Swamp classic!! I said "why didn't I think of that"???

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Stranger in a Strange land
It’s getting harder these days absorbing all the facts
I take 1 step forward, I end up 2 steps back
Has it got better or a whole lot worse
You call it progress I think it’s just the reverse

*** People goin’ nowhere, People goin’ everywhere
Wondrin’ what they’re all s’posed to do
All I want is someone to tell my story to… is it you?
CH
I’m a Stranger in a Strange land
Faced with so many things I don’t understand
Nothing’s working out the way I had planned
I’m a Stranger in a Strange land

I come from a place a faraway star,
We had black & white TV, a second hand car
I come from a time when livin’ was hip
When life was so simple, Yeah life was a trip
But where am I now & why am I here
Why do I stumble & tremble from fear
Where are your leaders & do they pretend
Not to hear

People Goin’ nowhere, people goin’ everywhere
Wond’rin what they’re all s’posed to be
Shying from the prospect, frightened of the possibility
CH

You worship your monsters & stars of the screen
& all of us strangers are caught in between
You blind us with science & tricks of the mind
You sell us a promise, the greater design
You all got an angle, you all got a pitch
You’re gonna be famous, you’re gonna be rich
You’re gonna be everything, you ever wanted to be
Solos Repeat ***
Chorus

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released March 13, 2013
Bobby Valentine, Vocals
Dion Hirini, all guitars, Basses, programming, Backing Vocals, Recording, arranging & Production
Words & Music by Bobby V

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Bobby Valentine Melbourne, Australia

My first all original Country album. In a career spanning over 30 years I've performed in many different genres. Country has been a secret passion ever since I heard "Act Naturally by Ringo and Roy Clark play some country pickin' on Hee Haw when I was a kid. ... more

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