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So The Years Roll On

by The McCalmans

on Lost Tracks (2016)

One drink before I go
To walk on stage for the final show
And thinking back, I just don't know
Did it change anyone but me?

Three hundred gigs or more each year
The 'sixties floated by in beer
No money, no fear
The game had just begun

The seventies stole the innocence
No control, but we had the sense
To know our worth and keep the friends
We met along the way

One drink before I go
To walk on stage for the final show
And thinking back, I just don't know
Did it change anyone but me?

One drink, we went along
To the Waverley Bar, we sang a song
In three minutes, it was done
And so the years rolled on

The nineteen-eighties, staggering along
Another face, a different song
Where had the years gone
But we had far to go

The 'nineties next, the singers' curse
Tunes so fast that we feared the worst
And every kid played better than us
But still we did okay

One drink before I go
To walk on stage for the final show
And thinking back, I just don't know
Did it change anyone but me?

One drink, we went along
To the Waverley Bar, we sang a song
In three minutes, it was done
And so the years rolled on

The Millennium changed, we missed the signs
A good man went before his time
Damn near the end of the line
But we survived again

Round the world in an old grey van
I recall how it all began
For better or worse, I'm the man I am
I'd do it all again

Six thousand gigs, just one more
Exit left through the old stage door
The voice has gone and the back is sore
I'd do it all again

One drink before I go
To walk on stage for the final show
And thinking back, I just don't know
Did it change anyone but me?

One drink, we went along
To the Waverley Bar, we sang a song
In three minutes, it was done
And so the years rolled on

One drink before I go
To walk on stage for the final show
One drink before I go
To walk on stage for the final show
One drink before I go
To walk on stage for the final show
One drink before I go
To walk on stage for the final show
And so the years rolled on
So the years rolled on
So the years rolled on
So the years rolled on
And on