The lines you're quoting is from "Eddy's Song." It was originally on Utah's LP "All Used Up" and is now reissued on the CD "The Telling Takes Me Home."

The song is about Eddy Balchowski, a pianist who went off to fight in the Spanish Civil War and lost an arm there. Decades later, Eddy was working as a janitor at a folk club in Chicago called the Quiet Knight. Utah heard him playing the piano there one night after hours.

I would guess that Art Thieme could tell us some Eddy Balchowski stories.

Mike Regenstreif