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City ways are gonna get you, baby
City ways is gonna small you in
City ways are gonna keep you, baby
Down in the hollow you're in
Down in the hollow you're in
Everybody, it seems, is hustling
Just to get an extra dollar or two
When you think that is your turn to have it
Someone's gonna step on you
You know they're gonna step on you
And it's hard
A country life is all I've ever known, now
Yeah, it's hard
City life, girl, is bringing me down
It's dragging me down

(Solo) yeah, yeah

When you get to the end of your road, now
you're about to lose your lies talked warm
Just hang on that last moment
When you get it by the door
Lock up the door
Take me back to the real thing, baby
You know this place ain't right to me
Keep me out this hard tight city
Take me back where I can re-breath
You know I just wanna be free

(solo) yeah, yeah (and fade)....

Johnny Rivers não é só um cantor de sucesso. Seu trabalho nos bastidores é de grande importãncia no rock.

A banda que acompanhava Johnny Rivers era formada por alguns dos músicos de estúdio mais bem pagos dos Estados Unidos. Seu baterista era Hal Blaine, que tocou em centenas de clássicos do rock como Bridge Over Troubled Water de Simon and Garfunkel e Pet Sounds dos Beach Boys

Rivers descubriu talentos como o compositor Jimmy Webb e o grupo Fifith Dimension