A Town Called Jubilee

Album: The Diving Board (2013)
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  • Lyricist Bernie Taupin told The Daily Telegraph about the origins of this slice of Frontier-Americana. "That's a perfect example of how a song just grows from the first line," he said. "I just got the image of a farm being sold, and all the junk lying around, and the first stanza just came to me in one thought, as it were."

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