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Hollywood fields

from Boys Heart (30th Anniversary) by Daintees

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Written by Martin Stephenson
Performed by The Daintees @ Blank Studios
Recorded @ Blank Studios by John Martindale
Produced by Martin Stephenson for Barbaraville Records
Mixed and mastered by Mark Lough
Manufactured by Dale Aiken for Cd Duplication Pro, Newton Abbey

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Hollywood fields

Iʼd often see her dream of the Hollywood fields
At the back of her factory, see her fingers weave
She would slip off her apron and breeze and breeze
Through the Hollywood fields, through her favourite scenes

See her dance with the women and the men of her day
Perform to children at penned-in play
Through a mesh besetting them, they would point and say
“Ah look at that mad cow!” as her workmates gazed

She’d sing, “California here I come, right back where I started from
These slums to the golden gate, a much kinder nicer place”

The hills were golden and climate warm
When I witnessed her downfall, the bell had not yet gone
The school the factory, turned a roman muck
Even the corn mocked as derision struck

I gripping the wire, with tears and snots down my clefts
While the Hollywood fields turned a dung filled trench

And on her return to the jeering overalls mid her block
Her humiliated back I could barely see for my tears and my snots
Through the crude wire fence, through the Hollywood stench
I thought: peasants are the workers, peasants are these children
And all who laugh at dreams

She’d sing, “California here I come, right back where I started from
These slums to the golden gate, a much kinder nicer place”

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from Boys Heart (30th Anniversary), track released January 29, 2021
Martin Stephenson: Acoustic guitar & Lead vocal
Neil James Morrison: Fiddle

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Martin Stephenson Invergordon, UK

Born Durham 27th July 1961

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