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Boomtown Lyrics by The Blasters

Non Fiction

1983

[Hook]
Boomtown, boomtown
Better be careful
Hard times in this boomtown

[Verse 1]
Skyscrapers rising from the desert floor
Eighteen people living in a shack next door
It ain’t so easy living in this boomtown

[Verse 2]
They said the highways here were paved with gold
But the concrete’s hot and the bright light’s cold
It ain’t so easy living in this boomtown

[Hook]
Boomtown, boomtown
Better be careful
Hard times in this boomtown

[Bridge]
Everyday it’s the same old thing
Strangers come to see what luck will bring to

[Hook]
Boomtown, boomtown
Better be careful
Hard times in this boomtown

[Verse 3]
They built new houses out on the outskirts
But there’s men in town who can’t get work
It ain’t so easy living in this boomtown

[Bridge]
Everyday it’s the same old thing
Strangers come to see what luck will bring to

[Hook]
Boomtown, boomtown
Better be careful
Hard times in this boomtown

[Verse 4]
Skyscrapers rising from the desert floor
Eighteen people ‘round a liquor store
Someone says they heard about a new boomtown

[Hook]
Boomtown, boomtown
Better be careful
Hard times in this boomtown

About “Boomtown” by The Blasters

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"Boomtown" appears on "Non Fiction" in 1983.

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