Country Town Gaytime Blues

I grew up in a country town And in places like that They put you down For being left handed let alone gay Well the local hairdresser headed the list Drawn up by the townsfolk oh but they missed A hell of a lot of people along the way. There was the lifeguard at the swimming pool The lady who taught me Sunday school A doctor and a butcher And a dentist occassionally There was a football coach And a teacher or two And the matron at the hospital knew The half her nurses were and then there was me. I's 14 when I realized That what I felt when I looked in her eyes Of the 4th captain was love at first sight She was tall and dark and her eyes were blue And when I looked a her I knew That I was one of 'them' and it wasn't right I'd follow her around and I'd catch her bus Even though she didn't live anywhere near us I just wanted to be with her all the time Of vourse she didn't kknow the way I felt She didn't know that every night I knelt Beside my bed and prayed she could be mine Meanwhile... () Well the years went by and we both left school I came to the city she married some fool From our h ome town settled down And had a kid And I went with men but my thoughts returned To the women I'd known and soon I learned I'd have to either explode or raise the lid So I broke out stead of breakin' down And now when I think of that country town I smile when I think of the things I didn't know then Like I could tell the clergyman's wife 'Bout the other side of her husband's life And what he really means when he says Amen There was the life guard at the swimming pool The lady who taught me Sunday school And what about the Seargeant son And the florist assistant I reckon she's one And the bloke next door to the girl next door To the fellow who owned the hardware store For sure. And the woman on the corner And the man at the zoo And you out there, hey, what about you?