Cabbagetown

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song name	Cabbagetown
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	I Palindrome I (EP), TMBG Clock Radio
year	1992
first played	1982-08-?? (1 known performance)
run time	2:56
sung by	John Flansburgh

From TMBG Unlimited: "Cabbagetown is in fact a real place, a quite dilapidated part of inner-city Atlanta, and yet the description of dogs and porches is actually completely accurate as Cabbagetown is one of the few remaining parts of that city that is a throw back to its more rural vibe."
The Dial-A-Song version of the song replaces the lines "With a bottle in one hand and another in the other" with "He said camels have hard eyes and dead men don't talk back."
This was one of the songs played by TMBG at their very first live show.

Current Rating

Cabbagetown is currently ranked #406 out of 799. (42 wikians have given it an average rating of 8.31)