The Suburbs - America Sings The Blues

Recorded 1986
A&M Records, Inc.

All music by The Suburbs
All lyrics written by Beej Chaney and Chan Poling

Produced by Robert Brent (Bobby Z of Prince & The Revolution)
Recorded at Metro Studios, Minneapolis, MN
Mastered by Mike Reese at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, CA
Engineered by Jim Nipar
Assistant Engineer - Kirby Binder

The Suburbs are:
Bruce J. Allen - Lead Guitar, Album Art Direction
Beej Chaney - Vocals, Beejtar
Michael Halliday - Bass Guitar
Hugo Klaers - Drums
Chan Poling - Vocals, Keyboards

Additional Musicians:
Tom Burnevik - Saxophones
Kevin Nord - Trumpet, Voice Tracker
Dusty Cox - Sax solo on "Heart Of Gold"

LYRICS:

There was a boy from Illinois
He grew up in the city block
He blew into town in a summer storm
He said
I was born
I was born
I was born in a summer storm

Bury me now
In diamonds and gold
Bury me now
In diamonds and gold
Picked up the paper
And this was the news
This was the news
America sings the blues

Daddy was born in America
Daddy sang the blues
The tears run down the poor folks' faces
Towns filled up the yuppie spaces

The crows are black against the sky
And they cried oh me, oh my
Everything is good news
Like if it rhymes, well

Bury me now
In diamonds and gold
Bury me now
In diamonds and gold
Picked up the paper
And this was the news
This was the news
America sings the blues

I sing the blues
We pay their dues
They’ve done it before
Give up on the poor
Captain Morgan
Geronimo
Where’re you now?
Where’d you go?
(Where did you go?)

Cars tires that squeal in the night
Rockstars and modern life
America put on a play
Everyone was cast in the wrong part

Bury me now
In diamonds and gold
Bury me now
In diamonds and gold
Picked up the paper
And this was the news
This was the news
America sings the blues