Don’t Cry for Hara Arena

[Richard O'Neill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OKd9pV5W7U


*Published on May 22, 2017*

Lyrics and vocals by W1BXY:

You won’t believe me
You'll think it strange
When I try to explain why we stayed
In that moldering hulk
When we wanted to run
To someplace normal

Where the toilets would flush
And the sewage won’t spew
As the building fell down ’round our ears
Tradition kept us coming through

We had to let it happen
We had to change
Couldn't spend every May in that place
With the cobwebs and mice
And I heard it had bugs

So they chose Xenia
And here we are on the fairground that’s new,
And are you impressed here at all?
Or do you have the Hamvention blues?

Don't cry for Hara Arena.
The truth is, we had to leave it,
After those fine years,
Oh, such nostalgia
Enjoy your memories
They’re not as smelly

Holes in the ceilings, so when it rained
They rigged buckets to catch all the drips,
Though it seemed to us all
They were fooling no one

The place was crumbling,
Full of pollution
Like condemned property,
But for the good of the hobby we still
Kept on when we wanted to flee

Don't cry for Hara Arena
The truth is, it was a SHITHOLE
With crusty carpets
And moldy ceilings
It gave us asthma
We’ll keep our distance

Have I said too much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do
Is see the place to know
That every word is true…

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