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Life In A Northern Town Lyrics

Artist: Dream Academy
Album: Dream Academy

A Salvation Army Band played
And Children drunk lemonade
And the morning lasted all day,
All day
And through an open window came
Like Sinatra in a younger day,
Pushing the town away
Ah-

(chant)
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.

They sat on the stoney ground
And he took out a cigarette out
And everyone else came down
To listen.
He said "In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
And The Beatles."

(Chant)
Ah- hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
All the work shut down.

The evening had turned to rain
Watch the water roll down the drain,
As we followed him down
To the station
And though he never would wave goodbye,
You could see it written in his eyes
As the train pulled out of sight
Bye-bye

(Chant)
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.

Comments/Interpretations

by roaster on 5/12/2008 4:11pm
sugarland sings it soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better by 1,000,000. go all you country fans!!!!!!!!!!

by Kems on 5/15/2008 6:07pm
I agree

by Jey on 5/16/2008 5:58am
Anyone else notice that the lyrics are different in the Sugarland/Little Big Town/Jake Owen version...?

by Shariboo on 5/18/2008 11:50am
Sugarland, LBT, and Jake Owens definitely gives this song justice! I love their version!

by peg on 5/19/2008 1:24pm
I find it interesting that the song's history can be reinterpreted to be abouth the death of JFK. "he would never waved goodbye" as the train pulled out of the station. I was there. This interpretation ( a personal one" is rather haunting. I love the Country version!

by athletezachlover on 5/19/2008 6:04pm
i love this song so much! this is one greatest songs ever! omg! i love this song! this is so kewl that all these groups came together to sing this amazing song!

by Tkerbyz on 5/20/2008 8:32am
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT! I LOVE SUGARLAND, LBT AND JAKE OWEN WITH THIS SONG!

by Joey on 5/21/2008 3:49pm
What exactly is this song about? I love it!!!! but don't runderstand the lyrics

by Justin on 5/23/2008 4:58pm
I dont understand them myself. i love the song tho! something about it that just make me wanna crank it up!

by Brooke on 5/24/2008 9:51am
I love this song it is so kewl!!!!!!!!

by BB on 5/26/2008 6:48pm
The Sugarland version lacks the intensity of the Dream Academy version. I was surprised and very disappointed to see that Sugarland did this song. Ruined it.

by Kelsy on 5/28/2008 1:53am
I definately love the Sugarland/LBT/Jake Owen version 1 million times more!

by nick on 5/28/2008 4:44pm
jennifer mettles (sugarland) is so horgeous and that voice oooohhhhh mmmmmyyyyyy gggggoooooooddddd

by Lynda on 5/31/2008 9:01am
definitely one of the best country songs on right now!!!!

by Deb on 6/4/2008 3:07pm
I love th Sugarland/Jake Owen version, the harmony is incredible!! Still, I dont get what this song means! Someone help. please?

by Morgan on 6/26/2008 6:28pm
i loved this song soo much!! i about cried when i heard it wouldnt be sold on itunes! but will it be? my friend said that she saw it on itunes...

by kimberly on 6/27/2008 9:17am
yes it is on itunes yay...i downloaded it last night..

by Rob on 6/27/2008 9:22am
The country version is horrendous and completely ruins the song.

by Brad on 7/5/2008 12:31pm
I liked the Dream Academy version, way back when, but the harmonies on Sugarland/Little Big Town, Jake Owen version are just out of this world ! Amazing how an old rock song is my favorite on Country Radio, right now, lol. Gotta love Country Music !

by Raina on 7/6/2008 11:30am
I think that sugar land did just ok dream academy much better need to dl origianal version can help?

by saturngirl2007 on 7/10/2008 3:29pm
This is the version that I have heard, I just love the voices conbinations.

by PSP on 7/22/2008 7:47pm
This song is about the ambiance of a town in the north, a small town (0-500 people) where life seems to stand still. This song describes it well and the version by Sugarland is incredible. One has to experience it to know it - one has to get out of the city.

by girl on 7/23/2008 3:31pm
i dont like this song i am a huuuuuge country fan and just dislike this song it makes no sense and just sounds dumb. i have never heard of dream academy and never listened to their version but i just dont like this song period.

by Kate on 7/30/2008 11:02pm
I like the original version better. However, Sugarland does a good job.

by Dele on 10/26/2008 10:56am
The country version of this is very bland. The Dream Academy version is much better and very unique.

by Greg on 12/3/2008 10:07am
I'm sorry the Dream Academy version is the best. Sugerland's is good but can't compare to the original.

by Dan on 4/14/2009 12:01am
I just heard a Rick Springfield version of this song. Computer says it came out in 2005. It wasn't bad. Not bad at all.

by Rebekah on 4/15/2009 6:11pm
This is funny becuase these lyrics dose not match the song. There is somethings that they say in the song that is not on here. This is one of my songs that I love thinks to my DJ. Well I hope that someone could fix it..

by Gorbechav on 4/19/2009 1:16am
hey o ma ma ma pollute your eye-ah

by Duncan Idaho on 7/15/2011 1:50am
Funny how all the country version lovers accuse those who don't like it of just hating country. Grow up people and stop sounding so insecure. Dream Academy made this song famous. Their is a reason Dream Academy's version had such a larger appeal, it is soooooo much better. The country version ruined the whole feel of the song and does not do the original justice.

by ElectricBlue on 9/25/2011 2:20am
The country remake of this amazing song is a joke. They completely missed the point, and tried to turn it into some cutesy "slice of americana" piece. For those who "don't get it"... blame Sugarland. They didn't "get it" either.

by happily on 5/7/2012 11:27am
Veduta naya. Are they talking about a painting by Carlo Naya? Are they saying om,om,om, instead of ma,ma,ma?

by Yawn on 8/28/2012 7:27am
I don't agree that Sugarland's version is better than the original!

by Edward on 1/15/2013 1:59pm
Sugarland should be put in prison for what they did to this song. Horrible!