Album: Any Road (1992)

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• Born and raised in a prairie town
  Just a kid full of dreams
  We didn't have much but an old radio
  Music came from places we'd never been
  
  Growing up in a prairie town
  Learning to drive in the snow
  Not much to do so you start a band
  And soon you've gone as far as you can go
  
  Winter nights are long, summer days are gone
  Portage and Main fifty below
  Springtime melts the snow, rivers overflow
  Portage and Main fifty below
  Portage and Main fifty below
  
  All the bands in a prairie town
  Try to outdo the next in line
  Learning records out of Liverpool
  Dreams of England on their Minds
  
  On the other side of Winnipeg
  Neil and The Squires played the Zone
  But then he went to play
  For awhile in Thunder Bay
  He never looked back and he's never coming home
  
  Just a band from a prairie town
  Sometimes we'd drive from coast to coast
  One call from LA and we'd pack and fly away
  But in our hearts we're always prairie folk
  
  Looking back at a prairie town
  People ask me why I went away
  To fly with the best, sometimes you have to leave the nest
  But the prairies made me what I am today Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

• Cory from Winnipeg MbR from Guelph, are you kidding? Bachman wrote incredible songs! And in the 60’s kids were learning records out of Liverpool, trying to become the Beatles. Great song, I prefer the rock version myself.
• Billy Chapman from CanadaI played drums on this track and in the two versions of the video. Talmage didn't begin playing with the Bachman band until my motorcycle accident a few months after this video was shot......
• Derek from Toronto, OnThe slower version of the song also features Margo Timmins of The Cowboy Junkies. She's also in the video.
• Jack from Marietta, GaWhat a great song but very depressing. Who is the women in this video
• Bobpape from Austin, TxWhere are more songs by Randy bachman? He co-wrote with Burt Cummins, but he also solo-wrote some great somgs with The Guess Who and B.T.O.!
• Dan from Kingston, CanadaJust heard it for the first time two weeks ago at a Bachman-Cummings concert in Belleville, Ont. - it's a great song
• R from Guelph, CanadaThis song is so bad it's good. It sounds like a little kid wrote it, then again this is Randy Bachman were talking about, who should stick to playing guitar. Listen how stupid this line is:
  "Learning records out of Liverpool, Dreams of England on their Minds". Terrible.
• Don from Newmarket, CanadaThere are two versions of this song - an acoustic and an electric version (I prefer the electric one.)

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