Nick Taylor – Packing For Paarl lyrics

Came back to live in my hometown
Such a life like nowhere around
People were cool like..
like hey man like fully shoowah yeah
Now it's different nothing's the same
The only thing I recognise is the name
That's why me and mine
We're packing for Paarl
Came to escape the Jo'burg race
The way they work up there's a disgrace
Living to work somehow ain't my kind of fun
But now my friends here have changed their tune
They're working Wednesday afternoon
Some work Fridays too .. I'm packing for Paarl
Can't take the rush .. can't take the crush
Can't take the crowd .. it's getting too loud
Dodging taxis oww .. staying alive
Can't blame them we showed em how to drive
Can't go to Kommetjie and sunbathe kaal'
I'm pppp packing for Paarl
It came to me in a blinding flash
It's all become a matter of cash
A case of what you got
And not what you are
I get the feeling I'm over the hill
I got the way but I'm losing the will
That's why me and mine are packing for Paarl
These politicians don't thrill me to bits
In fact they give me the screaming fits
The chance they'll do what they say
Is incredibly skraal I'm making music, I got me a life
I love my kids and I love my wife
That's why me and mine are packing for Paarl
Can't take the rush .. can't take the crush
Can't take the crowd .. it's getting too loud
Dodging taxis oww .. staying alive
Can't blame them we showed em how to drive
Can't go to Kommetjie and sunbathe kaal'
I'm pppp packing for Paarl
Dancing the night away

It was Bridgie, Jaki and Laurie and me
Timmy and Tommy and Ray
Bonzo and Andrew and Peggy Sue
Dancing the night away
Let me tell you how we danced
Bedoobedoowah how we danced
Bepopalulah how we danced
Dancing .. dancing .. dancing the night away

If anyone tells you .. they know how it was
Just mention a couple of names
They better know, because
That was a time like no other time
You had to be there to know
That was when the world was small
All those years ago ... Doo doo ‘n doo ‘n doo .. Doowaah ... doo doo ‘n doo ‘n doo ..
shoowah
It was Hilly and Milly and Soozy and me
Mikey and Maggie Mae
Marion Gary and Mary Lou
Dancing the night away
Let me tell you how we danced ....