Melodic Monday Music: "Life in a Northern Town"

I don't listen to much country music, so I was shocked to see Sugarland's latest crime against humanity. In their latest video (WARNING: occasionally playing on CMTV), Sugarland even brings out several other big name country acts to aid and abet them in their shocking crime, the brutal murder of a beautiful song by the Dream Academy, "Life in a Northern Town."

A Salvation Army band played
And the children drunk lemonade
And the morning lasted all day, all day
And through an open window came
Like Sinatra in a younger day,
Pushing the town away. Oh...

Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.

They sat on the stoney ground
And he took a cigarette out
And everyone else came down to listen.
He said "In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
And the Beatles." Yeah, yeah...

Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
All the work shut down.

The evening turned to rain
Watched the water roll down the drain,
As we followed him down to the station
And though he never would wave goodbye,
You could see it written in his eyes
As the train rolled out of sight
Bye-bye.

Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.