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"John Prine"
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жанры: folk, singer-songwriter, country, americana, alt-country
альбомы: In Spite of Ourselves
Back Street Affair
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John Prine
жанры: folk, singer-songwriter, country, americana, alt-country
альбомы: In Spite of Ourselves
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You didn't know I wasn't free When you fell in love with me And with all your young heart you learned to careIt brought you shame and disgrace The world has tumbled in your face 'Cause they call our love a back street affairThey are to say I wrecked your home You're a husband that's gone wrong They don't know the sorrow that we had to bearFor the one I'm tied to Was the first to prove untrue Now they call our love a back street affairWe have each other now That's all that matters anyhow For the judgment of gossip's never fairWe'll just be brave and strong Then someday they'll see they're wrong Let 'em call our love a back street affairWe'll be free to love someday When all the talk has died away And the happiness we hoped for then we'll shareWe'll climb a mountain high Then the world will hear us cry That our love was not a back street affair No, our love was not a back street affair
Это интересно:Prine is the son of William Prine and Verna Hamm. Prine himself started playing guitar at age 14, taught by his brother, David. He was a postman for five years and served in the Army before beginning his musical career in Chicago.In the late 1960s, while Prine was still delivering mail in Maywood, Illinois, he began to sing at open-mic evenings at the Fifth Peg on Armitage Avenue. Prine was initially a spectator, reluctant to perform, but eventually did so in response to a "You think you can do better?" comment made to him by another performer. Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert heard him there and wrote the first review Prine ever received, calling him a great songwriter.... продолжение
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