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Sleeping On The Sidewalk Lyrics
I was nothing but a city boy, my trumpet was my only toy
I've been blowing my horn, Since I knew I was born
But there ain't nobody wants to know
I've been sleeping on the sidewalk, rolling down the road
I may get hungry, but I sure don't want to go home
So round the corner comes a limousine, and the biggest grin I ever seen
Here sonny won't you sign, right along the dotted line
What you saying are you playing, sure you don't mean me?
I've been sleeping on the sidewalk, rolling down the road
I may get hungry, but I sure don't want to go home
(Now I tell you what happened...)
They took me to a room without a table, they said 'blow your trumpet into here'
I played around as well as I was able, and soon we had the record of the year
I was a legend all through the land, I was blowing to a million fans
Nothing was a missing, all the people want to listen
You'd have thought I was a happy man
And I was sleeping like a princess
Never touch the road, I don't get hungry
And I sure don't want to go home (Have to have some fun...)
Now they tell me that I ain't so fashionable
And I owe the man a million bucks a year
So I told them where to stick the fancy label
It's just me and the road from here
I'm back to playing and laying, I'm back on the game
I'm sleeping on the sidewalk, rolling down the road
I sure get hungry and, I sure do wanna go home (Yeah)
I've been blowing my horn, Since I knew I was born
But there ain't nobody wants to know
I may get hungry, but I sure don't want to go home
Here sonny won't you sign, right along the dotted line
What you saying are you playing, sure you don't mean me?
I may get hungry, but I sure don't want to go home
(Now I tell you what happened...)
They took me to a room without a table, they said 'blow your trumpet into here'
I played around as well as I was able, and soon we had the record of the year
I was a legend all through the land, I was blowing to a million fans
Nothing was a missing, all the people want to listen
You'd have thought I was a happy man
Never touch the road, I don't get hungry
And I sure don't want to go home (Have to have some fun...)
And I owe the man a million bucks a year
So I told them where to stick the fancy label
It's just me and the road from here
I'm sleeping on the sidewalk, rolling down the road
I sure get hungry and, I sure do wanna go home (Yeah)
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Just a little story about a trumpet player who was famous for a little while and the wasn't that fashionable any more and wanted to go home.
I just find it ironic that this song is about a trumpet player, yet there is no trumpet (or even guitar disguised as a trumpet) in the whole song.
It's about a hobo that becomes an anti-hobo and then becomes a hobo again. Pretty much what grapefruit said. It sounded like he was pretty happy with his life until he became famous, and then he was living in luxury, so when he went back to his old life, he wasn't so happy with it.
I like this song, it's rather upbeat, and kind of tells the story about how lots of bands got blown away by the punk movement, while queen was seemingly untouched. In the Queen edition of "Guitar World", Brian May says that they thought of punk as a fashion, and they were never really affected by fashion. I also agree with Bennyboy, why is there no trumpet?
i love this song even more.
Maybe the trumpet stands for the more primitive non-western way of making a living with your music (like the new orleans big blues bands, often played by Afro-americans). In that way they wanted to emphasize the point of the contrast poor an rich... judt my
Maybe the trumpet stands for the more primitive non-western way of making a living with your music (like the new orleans big blues bands, often played by Afro-americans). In that way they wanted to emphasize the point of the contrast poor an rich... judt my
Maybe the trumpet stands for the more primitive non-western way of making a living with your music (like the new orleans big blues bands, often played by Afro-americans). In that way they wanted to emphasize the point of the contrast poor an rich... judt my
Great song. A lot different from other Queen songs.