A rootsy soul-country Nashville meets Mildura styled song. Fiona shows her love for Patsy Cline records, ably assisted by Warwick Thomas' group vocal harmony arrangements and James' magnificent guitar work. A song that laments gender role conditioning through childhood.
lyrics
All of my brothers,
were driving cars
Telling interesting stories,
inside musical bars
All I wanted,
was to drive just the same
But the day that red car came home
I took some kind of blame
You see my mama
had learned to drive
She got her license
I was not even five
Home came papa,
with a toy car to see
For my little brother
there was no car for me
Families and sharing,
is a real sweet idea
But when that red car came home,
it all became clear
Nightmares with tractors
haunted my head
“That’s for my boy, not you!”
was what he said
Sure that I’d been a good girl,
O it didn’t seem fair
My brother was much too young,
to see my despair
I’d already stopped crying,
cause that’s what big girls do
And the boy got the red car
Whilst the girl got all
Blue.
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