Country Girl (5)

Country Girl (to be sung by a female with a guitar)

1

I don’t want to sound depressing

But I’m just not right for you

Even though you are quite charming

And a handsome fellah too

Yes I know you own a Holden

For a bomb it’s not so bad

And you work down at the meat-works

Making money with your dad

Chorus

It’s true I am ambitious

But the music in me cannot be betrayed

I’m sorry to be losing you now

But fame demands a ransom to be paid

2

I just want to keep on singing

And to strum my old guitar

And before I am much older

To become a super star

I know you think ambition

Is not very good for me

But without my country music

I don’t know where I would be

Chorus

It’s true I am ambitious

But the music in me cannot be betrayed

I’m sorry to be losing you now

But fame demands a ransom to be paid

3

There’s a world out there that’s changing

Think of all the forests gone

And the rivers we have ruined

Which deserve a country song?

I can’t sing about a meat-works

Or a handsome man called Dave

When the moonbeams in my music

Need a tree or two to save

Chorus

It’s true I am ambitious

But the music in me cannot be betrayed

I’m sorry to be losing you now

But fame demands a ransom to be paid

4

I find Timaru quite boring

It’s too small a place for me

And the people think I’m crazy

To worry about a tree

So they don’t care for my singing

Or when I strum my guitar

Yes I know I might be lying

But I’m not a super star

Chorus

It’s true I am ambitious

But the music in me cannot be betrayed

I’m sorry to be losing you now

But fame demands a ransom to be paid

5

I hope when I return home

I will be a super star

Performing to the thousands

With a cool fender guitar

And the forests still remaining

Will be glad I did my best

Even though the world is crazy

Well I guess you know the rest

Chorus

It’s true I am ambitious

But the music in me cannot be betrayed

I’m sorry to be losing you now

But fame demands a ransom to be paid

The End

© K.F. Geach