The Kinks - Muswell Hillbilly - LIVE

Muswell Hillbilly (Live) from The Kinks 1972 album - Everybody's in Show-Biz. This is a faster pace version than the original Muswell Hillbilly. Muswell Hillbilly is an song that talks about the Davies brothers neighborhood they grew up in Muswell Hill, London, England. My video includes photos of the Davies brothers home and neighborhood where The Kinks music originated. Ray wanted to make a music video for Muswell Hillbilly - to quote from the book, Ray Davies, Not Like Everybody Else, 302 p., by Thomas Kitts, "Davies envisioned the opening a film version of the album, which RCA refused to finance, with Ray and Dave on the back of an overloaded flatbed truck like the one featured in The Beverly Hillbillies." (Wish they would have made that video)
- stereo mix, recorded 3 Mar, 1972 at Carnegie Hall, New York

They sing an abbreviated version of Muswell Hillbilly, but I still included the lyrics.

Muswell Hillbilly

Written by: Ray Davies
Published by: Davray Music Ltd.

Well I said goodbye to Rosie Rooke this morning,

I'm gonna miss her bloodshot alcoholic eyes,

She wore her Sunday hat so she'd impress me,

I'm gonna carry her memory 'til the day I die.


They'll move me up to Muswell Hill tomorrow,

Photographs and souvenirs are all I've got,

They're gonna try and make me change my way of living,
But they'll never make me something that I'm not.


Cos I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy,

But my heart lies in old West Virginia,

Never seen New Orleans, Oklahoma, Tennessee,

Still I dream of the Black Hills that I ain't never seen.

They're putting us in identical little boxes,

No character just uniformity,

They're trying to build a computerised community,

But they'll never make a zombie out of me.


They'll try and make me study elocution,

Because they say my accent isn't right,

They can clear the slums as part of their solution,

But they're never gonna kill my cockney pride.


Cos I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy,

But my heart lies in Old West Virginia,

Though my hills, they're not green,

I've seen them in my dreams,

Take me back to those Black Hills,

That I ain't never seen.


Well I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy,

But my heart lies in Old West Virginia,

Though my hills, they're not green,

I've seen them in my dreams,

Take me back to those Black Hills,

That I ain't never seen.

Produced by Ray Davies

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[HaggisPowah]

fabulous stuff!



[elgrovez13]

Great post, I haven't heard this in a long time.