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Thread #29521   Message #373769
Posted By: GUEST,Tom James
13-Jan-01 - 12:36 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: For Eddie (Skip Haynes, E von Heitlinger)
Subject: Stone Angel / Eddie's Song
I'm looking for a song from the late 60's or early 70's. I'm not sure of the song title exactly. I know Bruce Phillips also has a song about Eddie Belkowski, the concert pianist who lost a hand in the Spanish Civil War and later worked at The Quiet Night in Chicago and would play beautiful one-hand melodies after closing time. Perhaps his is called "Eddies Song". The other song, the one I'm looking for, has a chorus " And the stone angel hung from a wall up above/ looked down blind all the night long/ But when the one armed man played to an empty saloon/ she looked down at him and she smiled" The other lyric I remember, the one that makes me want to find the song, goes " He played better with one hand than most men with two / Yet made posters for all of the stars / I wish to my heart you could hear that man play / And you'd know just how happy you are " Any help would be greatly appreciated.