The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #72690   Message #1254626
Posted By: muppitz
23-Aug-04 - 02:03 PM
Thread Name: Songs Re Violence/Abuse to Women
Subject: RE: Songs Re Violence/Abuse to Women
One that hasn't been mentioned yet is "Blue Old Saturday Night", it's a Julie Matthews song which is on the Intuition album she did with Kathleen and Rosalie Deighton, Pat Shaw, Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts, John Wright did it on "The Things We've Handed Down".
I know the John Wright album is no longer available, not sure about the Intuition album.

I can hear the sound of your footsteps walking down the hall
Echo of the the door, it's slam, shook a picture off the wall
You start the car in the drive outside
Hit the pedal and you're gone
If leaving me is oh so easy, why bother coming home?

Chorus
Oh, old blue, old Saturday night
My baby's left me in tears again
Oh, old blue, old Saturday night
I'm on the rocks and he's rolling away

Oh how you hate the sound of raised voices
How yours would raise when I'd start to cry
And the trembling lips and the trembling fingers
Reached out to you and made your temper fly
I can't live here in this grey, grey world
I'm too afraid to speak my mind
And if leaving me means oh so little to you
Then coming back is just a lie

Chorus

When you get home and the lights are all out
You'll fumble at the doorway to turn them on
You'll stumble to the bedroom but the bed will be empty
Look around the house, you'll find me gone
And you'll remember all those silent moments
And they'll be ringing in your ears
There won't be voices raised tonight, but maybe there'll be tears

Oh old blue, old Saturday night
Your baby's left you in tears
Oh old blue, old Saturday night
You're on the rocks and I'm rolling away


Lovely song, Rosalie Deighton sings it on the Intuition album and makes a great job of it.