Going Back to Bohemia

from When we were Indians / Download by Peter Daltrey

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Written & recorded for my first solo album, Dream On.

Re-recorded for this later album.

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The war is ten years over now
I'm walking down those black and white streets
My hair is on my shoulder now
I mystify everyone I meet

I'm going back to Bohemia
I'm going back with my sunglasses on
I'm going back to Bohemia
Let's hope Bohemia hasn't gone

My brother, he lived through changes
Read Kerouac and over-stepped the line
The girls he loved were beautiful
MJQ played the soundtrack of vibes

We're living through jazz
We're living through poetry
Don't want to be like our dads
Don't talk of sex talk of ecstasy

Hey, hey, Khrushchev with a square head
John Kennedy in Marilyn's bed
No career in Korea
Don't forget what Lenny Bruce said:
" When you're dead, boy, you're a long time dead "

I'm going back to Bohemia
I'm going back with my sunglasses on
I'm going back to Bohemia
Let's hope Bohemia hasn't gone

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from When we were Indians / Download, released January 8, 2021
Written, performed and produced by Peter Daltrey

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