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[Verse 1]
Midway hawkers calling "Try your luck with me"
Merry-go-round wheezing the same old melody
A thousand ten-cent wonders, who could ask for more?
A pocketful of silver, the key to heaven's door
[Chorus]
Lakeside Park, willows in the breeze
Lakeside Park, so many memories
Laughing rides, midway lights
Shining stars on summer nights
[Verse 2]
Days of barefoot freedom, racing with the waves
Nights of starlit secrets, crackling driftwood flames
Drinking by the lighthouse, smoking on the pier
Still we saw the magic was fading every year
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Lakeside Park, willows in the breeze
Lakeside Park, so many memories
Laughing rides, midway lights
Shining stars on summer nights
[Bridge]
Everyone would gather on the twenty-fourth of May
Sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display
Dancing fires on the beach, singing songs together
Though it's just a memory, some memories last forever
Lakeside Park was written by Neil Peart & Alex Lifeson & Geddy Lee.
Lakeside Park was produced by Terry Brown & Rush.
Rush released Lakeside Park on Wed Sep 24 1975.
In his autobiography Traveling Music, Rush’s Neil Peart wrote
Another important setting in my childhood and early teens was Lakeside Park, in Port Dalhousie. When I was 14 and 15, I worked summers at Lakeside Park as a barker (‘Catch a bubble, prize every time,’ all day and night), and there was mu...