Swingin Party

Album: Tim (1985)
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  • Bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a party
    Hear it's never endin', can't remember when it started
    Pass around the lampshade, there'll be plenty enough room in jail

    If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever
    Being strong and kind, I need help here with this feather

    If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
    At the swingin' party down the line

    Pound the prairie pavement, losin' proposition
    Quittin' school and goin' to work and never goin' fishin'
    Water all around, never learning how to swim now

    If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever
    If being strong and kind, then I need help here with this feather

    If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
    At the swingin' party down the line, li-li-line
    At the swingin' party down the line

    Bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a party
    Hear it's never endin', can't remember when it started
    Pass around the lampshade, there'll be plenty enough room in jail

    If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever
    Being strong is what you want, then I need help here with this feather

    If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
    At the swingin' party down the line
    Every valentine at the swingin' party down the line
    Catch you down at the swingin' party down the line Writer/s: Paul Westerberg
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Fogmoose from NyA "swingin party" was slang for a public hanging in the old west days, and Westerberg was certainly aware of the double meaning when writing the song.
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