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Velvet pants and a big top hat 
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It's a little hot to be dressed like that 
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Down near the war memorial he's propped 
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In a big balck cape and twelve hole docs 
 
 
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Now he almost made his auntie faint 

When he stopped at the chemist for some black nail paint 

She just stood there hands on hips 

He said "Aunty Em it'll match my lips" 
 
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 I heard his mother and his father say 
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"What possessed the boy to dress that way?" 
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But don't you try and bring him down 
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He's a lonely goth in a country town 
 
 
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Now his father's family settled here 

In another time, it was a long gone year 

He knows about them all you see 

They're buried at the local cemetery 
 
There's a girl in the next town that he knows 

They met at a Marilyn Manson show 

And they write letters and they swap spells 

They'll be together one day in hell 
 
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 I heard his mother and his father say 
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"What possessed the boy to dress that way?" 
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And what will the blokes at the bottom pub say 
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And the women down at her CWA? 
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But don't you try and bring him down 
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He's a lonely goth in a country town 
 
 
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To dress like that around here you guess 
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That he likes being close to death 
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He doesn't like footy, he doesn't like cars 
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He didn't mind Coppolla's Dracula 
 
One day he'll be rid of this place 

Run like mascara down a pale white face. 

He doesn't believe in a god above 

But you could never doubt his mother's love 
 
 (chorus) 
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 I heard his mother and his father say 
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"What possessed the boy to dress that way?" 
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And what will the blokes at the top pub say 
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And the women down at her CWA? 
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But it's eye of newt and it's tounge of bat 
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As he walks around town with his mum's black cat 
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And if you'd been through all he's been through 
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Then you'd turn white and you'd frown too 
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He's the bravest boy behind the frown 
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Of a lonely goth in a country town 
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He's evoked the wrath of a country town 
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He's the only one for miles around 
 
 
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   It's a shearing town 
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Or a mining town 
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A quite little country town 
 
 
D  means: 
 
 
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b | -----3-----3- 
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Tabbed: Damien Murtagh