Darrell Scott East Of Gary Lyrics

I grew up on the Indiana side of Chicago
With the rusty steel mills belching in the westward wind
I watched Mom and Dad trying to clean their sorrow
With my brothers and me at old Lake Michigan

There’s a little boy
He’s got big brown eyes
He’s got swimming trunks ‘bout twice his size
Looking at a steel mill sunset
Skipping a stone, "hey, ain’t you a little young
To feel so alone?"

Well they changed the name of my hometown
When we moved away
Now it’s more than words that I don’t recognize
That kid down at the filling station
Tried to keep my change from a twenty
I could see that cold assurance in his eyes

Hey you need ten dollars for the rainy day?
Save and go to college or just get away Or you could spend that money on a two-day stone
Oh, there are worse things in this world than being alone
Let me tell you now…

So, if you’re driving from Chicago, east of Gary
And you find a fallen town that has two names
There’ll be no one to possibly remember
A little lonesome brown-eyed boy who went by James

Oh the mill’s shut down
But the air’s still sour
You get a hotel room
You gotta pay by the hour
Oh the good old days are just good and gone
Like autumn leaves on a burning lawn

I grew up on the Indiana side of Chicago
With the rusty steel mills belching in the westward wind

Who wrote East Of Gary lyrics?

East Of Gary is written and performed by Darrell Scott.

When was East Of Gary released?

East Of Gary is first released on September 23, 2003 as part of Darrell Scott's album "Theatre of the Unheard" which includes 12 tracks in total. This song is the opening track on this album.

Which genre is East Of Gary?

East Of Gary falls under the genre Rock.

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