The Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City

Deze song, Sin City staat op het album The Gilded Palace Of Sin, het eerste album van The Flying Burrito Brothers uit 1969. Waarbij de grote Gram Parsons samen met Chris Hillman (voorheen The Byrds) en Pete Kleinow een van de beste steelgitaristen allertijden, baanbrekend werk verrichten voor de countryrock.

Songtext.

This old town is filled with sin it’ll swallow you in
If you’ve got some
money to burn
Take it home right away, you’ve got three years to pay
But
Satan is waiting his turn

This old earthquake’s gonna leave me in the
poorhouse
It seems like this whole town’s insane
On the thirty-first floor
a gold-plated door
Won’t keep out the Lord’s burning rain

The
scientists say it’ll all wash away
But we don’t believe anymore
‘Cause
we’ve got our recruits and our green mohair suits
So please show your I.D. at
the door

This old earthquake’s gonna leave me in the poorhouse
It seems like this whole town’s insane
On the thirty-first floor a
gold-plated door
Won’t keep out the Lord’s burning rain

A friend came
around tried to clean up this town
His ideas made some people mad
He
trusted his crowd so he spoke right out loud
And they lost the best friend
they had

This old earthquake’s gonna leave me in the poorhouse
It
seems like this whole town’s insane
On the thirty-first floor a gold-plated
door
Won’t keep out the Lord’s burning rain

On the thirty-first floor
your gold-plated door
Won’t keep out the Lord’s burning rain