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Back Where She's Been Coming From

from Welcome To Gippsland by Sean McMahon

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BACK WHERE SHE'S BEEN COMING FROM (Sung by the narrator.)

…Mary came to live in our town for a while. we'd hang out nearly every night, but it wasn't too long until she had to run, back where she's been coming from.

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I can hear the rumble of the evening train
Rolling through the weather not far away
That'd be the train that my best friends on
She's going back where she's been coming from

A lot of mothers out there, they started out young
Mary's in the dress that her mother passed on
She's been waiting on some money from her brother in law
She's gone pawn some medals from the vietnam war

Can a dream be had just to be ignored
where they're out of luck and they're unemployed
they'll all be talking 'bout things they can't afford
where all the boys get drunk and the girls get bored.

I'm going back then, when she left her land
for a room down the cold end of an alley
when we stayed up late in the quiet bars
and recalled all the days gone in the valley
but sure enough soon she had to run
back where she'd been coming from.

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from Welcome To Gippsland, released September 1, 2008

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Sean McMahon Melbourne, Australia

With a string of independent releases to his name and over a decade of non stop writing, recording and performing, Sean McMahon has honed an undeniably genuine voice as a singer/songwriter, His songs are laden with lyrical beauty, weaving vivid story telling, confessional narratives and abstract musings through timeless sounds inspired by classic vintage folk, rock and cosmic country, ... more

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