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Song title: Whitetown ('79)


Whitetown ('79) - Version 1

It's midnight down in sector two
Little girl walkin' dressed in innocence and cool
Only fourteen and dressed up for the score
Hold that breath now boy, these White town folks
She dances, baby, to the beat
Of breaking glass and running feet

Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Down in White Town

Oh, she comes home from work and grabs something to eat
Turns the corner and walks down her street[1]
In a row of houses, chic, shiny, dirty and grey
Disappears like the scenery in another man's play
And at night she dances, oh, to the beat
Oh the trooper stickin' dresses for the number on the sheet

Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Down in White Town

Yeah, Mr Outside, you're walkin' so free
If you turn your eyes so you don't see
You act like you're hand turns the key
And you become the hand that turns the key[1]
And no matter how I try I cannot understand
The way that they will turn a man
Into a stranger in his own land

Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Down in White Town

Notes: [1] These verses can also be found in Jackson cage and Where the bands are


Whitetown ('79) - Version 2

ow it's midnight in sector two
Theres a little girl walkin' dressed in Kensington blue
Shes fourteen now and dressed for the score
Born and bred here on the White town wall
Every night she dances oh to the beat
Of breaking glass and running feet

Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Down in White Town


Whitetown ('79) - Version 3

Give me your money and your power
They won't help you baby come the hour
When your kingdom falls to your feet
And your left like any other thief out on the street

Oh and tonight she dances oh to the beat
Oh whose checking for the number on the sheet
Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Down in White Town
Yeah down in White Town
Yeah down in White Town


Whitetown ('79) - Version 4

It's midnight in sector two
Little girl walking dressed in Kensington blue
Oh fourteen now and dressed for the score
Yeah born and bred for the White Town Ball

Now uptown they ???
Oh down down they fight the clock off their backs
???


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This song has never been published on any official release.

Never played in regular set.
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Studio recordings have surfaced from the THE RIVER sessions, but the song was not used for that album.
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