Camden Town

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The album’s 6th track, Camden Town is an acoustic song interspersed with some lovely Madolin playing, somewhat remininsent of REM’s song Losing My Religion. The song reminds us of Camden Town in its heyday, now full of bustling trendy shops and clubs and pretend punks and hippies wearing their expensively bought shoes on sale in Camden High Street. The song points to a woman on the stall in the trendy Camden Lock Market selling postcards of the past who is a child of the 60’s who has grown fat on nostalgia. The song reflects the London housing situation in that the original poor occupants were paid off and kicked out as the rich moved in creating their own ghettoes for the rich. The lyricist grew up up along Chalk Farm Road and Camden Town was his playground as was the canal where he went to the boating club that was for the poor neighborhood kids, but now their football pitch has been turned into rich housing estates as Camden Town like many other formerly poor areas of London, has become a trendy place to live.
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Camden Town Lyrics
I saw you on that stall in Camden Town
You were selling postcards of the past
Your hair is grey though you got it coloured brown
I guess inner beauty can never last

You’re a sixties child
No longer running wild
You been tamed with styled
Nostalgia’s made you fat
What d’ya think about that?
What d’ya think about that?

Ah come on ya old punks and hippies in your designer shoes
Come sing along to these Camden Town Blues

Been thinkin’ ’bout all the places that I’ve been
And all those people and things that I’ve seen
But my thoughts were never far away from home
Camden on my mind wherever I roamed

And your reminiscing of ‘Those were the days’
All got lost in the 60’s smoky haze
Of wars and riots and hate and broken glass
I’m so glad those crazy days didn’t last

You’re a sixties child
No longer running wild
You been tamed with style
Nostalgia’s made you fat
What d’ya think about that?
What d’ya think about that?

Ah come on ya old punks and hippies in your designer shoes
And sing along to these Camden Town Blues

They’ve bought and forced the poor right outta town
They made it a ghetto for the rich
The new clubs they all belt out the newest sounds
They’ve built designer flats on our sports pitch

You’re a sixties child
No longer running wild
You been tamed with style
Nostalgia’s made you fat
What d’ya think about that?
What d’ya think about that?

Ah come on ya old punks and hippies in your designer shoes
Sing along to these Camden Town Blues

Ah come on ya old punks and hippies in your designer shoes
Sing along to these Camden Town Blues

Ah come on ya old punks and hippies in your designer shoes
Sing along to these Camden Town Blues
Sing along to these Camden Town Blues
Sing along to these Camden Town Blues

Music composed and performed by Paul Odiase BMI No. 1252265 (Switzerland)
Song lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode 125293EM
ISRC QZK6P1990248