Old Tin Roof Song
Few sounds are as homey as that of rain falling on a tin roof.
Old tin roof song. The inspiration for the song was a cabin around athens georgia with a tin roof where the band conceived rock lobster a single from their debut album the cabin was said to have been located off the atlanta highway near athens. Old tin roof leaves in the gutter a hole in the screen door big as your fist and flies on the butter mamaw baking sugar cookies we were watching cartoons heard her holler from the kitchen which one of you youngin s wants to lick the spoon. Lil mosey lyrics your license in my wallet when we go out downtown your lipstick s stained every coffee cup that i got in this house the way you say i love you too is like rain on an old tin roof. B 52 s singer kate pierson lived in the cabin in the 1970s and it burned down in december 2004.
Patrons would show up packed in cars to dance. John from kirkland wa the love shack was a real place with yes a rusted tin roof. Yellow jackets on the watermelon honeysuckle in the air. Her eyes are blue just like the ocean her heart is a river free well now and then she gets the notion and she finds her way to me chorus her love s.
I live in a house with a tin roof and every time it rains i can feel my brain it s moving back and forth upside down east west feeling and remembering everything you do. I wanna hear raindrops fallin down on an old tin roof i wanna find a front porch rail and prop up my travelin boots see your silhouette in that firelight feel your body lyin next to mine. It was so active that people would stand in line to just get in. Cindy wilson s line tin roof rusted was originally.
The love shack burned down a few years ago leaving just the.