Muswell Hillbilly (Live) from The Kinks 1972 album - Everybody's in Show-Biz. This is a faster pace version than the original Muswell Hillbilly. More

Muswell Hillbilly (Live) from The Kinks 1972 album - Everybody's in Show-Biz. This is a faster pace version than the original Muswell Hillbilly. Muswell Hillbilly is an song that talks about their neighborhood they grow up in Muswell Hill, London, England. My video includes photos of the Davies brothers home and neighborhood where The Kinks music originated. To quote from the book, Ray Davies, Not Like Everybody Else, 302 p., by Thomas Kitts, "Davies envisioned the opening a film version of the album, which RCA refused to finance, with Ray and Dave on the back of an overloaded flatbed truck like the one featured in The Beverly Hillbillies." They sing an abbreviated version of Muswell Hillbilly, but I still included the lyrics. Muswell Hillbilly Written by: Ray Davies Published by: Davray Music Ltd. Well I said goodbye to Rosie Rooke this morning, I'm gonna miss her bloodshot alcoholic eyes, She wore her Sunday hat so she'd impress me, I'm gonna carry her memory 'til the day I die. They'll move me up to Muswell Hill tomorrow, Photographs and souvenirs are all I've got, They're gonna try and make me change my way of living, But they'll never make me something that I'm not. Cos I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy, But my heart lies in old West Virginia, Never seen New Orleans, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Still I dream of the Black Hills that I ain't never seen. They're putting us in identical little boxes, No character just uniformity, They're trying to build a computerised community, But <b>...</b>
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The Muswell Hillbillies performing Muswell Hillbilly live at BB Kings in New York City at the Kinks Fest on August 1, 2010.