Soundtrack to 'Carnivale Season'

I had meant to post these two songs along with the 2nd part of my 'story'.

Both of them were songs that actually spoke to that time; those places and moments...

The first one I had mentioned regarding the ways carnys often get treated in the towns when they are travelling. It's really not the safest life - or at least I didn't think it was. You felt very much out of place - yet not the way a 'tourist' feels out of place, more the way the enemy/leper feels out of place:

Turn the Page

On a long and lonesome highway
East of Omaha
You can listen to the engine
Moanin' out as one long song
You can think about the woman
Or the girl you knew the night before

But your thoughts will soon be wandering
The way they always do
When you're riding sixteen hours
And there's nothing much to do
And you don't feel much like riding
You just wish the trip was through

Say...

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, up on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Well, you walk into a restaurant
Strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you
As you're shaking off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you
But you just want to explode
Most times you can't hear 'em talk
Other times you can
Oh, the same old clichés
Is that a woman or a man
And you always seem outnumbered
You don't dare make a stand

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, up on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Out there in the spotlight
You're a million miles away
Every ounce of energy
You try to give away
As the sweat pours out your body
Like the music that you play

Later in the evening
As you lie awake in bed
With the echoes from the amplifiers
Ringing in your head
You smoke the day's last cigarette
Rememb'rin' what she said

Ah...

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, up on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, there I go

ARTIST: Bob Seger

This next one was actually a song some of the folks would sing tearing down or on their way out and onto the next 'gig'; now Tommie was tone deaf, so it wasn't very pretty listening to him sing this song, but yet it's the kind of song ANYONE can sing:

On the Road Again

On the road again
Just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is makin' music with my friends
And I can't wait to get on the road again
On the road again
Goin' places that I've never been
Seein' things that I may never see again,
And I can't wait to get on the road again.

On the road again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We're the best of friends
Insisting that the world be turnin' our way
And our way
Is on the road again
Just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is makin' music with my friends
And I can't wait to get on the road again

On the road again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We're the best of friends
Insisting that the world be turnin' our way
And our way
Is on the road again

Just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is makin' music with my friends
And I can't wait to get on the road again
And I can't wait to get on the road again

Artist: Willie Nelson