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Thread #132648 Message #4078957
Posted By: Joe Offer
09-Nov-20 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: Early Mike Harding songs
Subject: ADD: Jimmy Spoons (Mike Harding)
Looks like we need the lyrics to Jimmy Spoons.
Jimmy Spoons Mike Harding
Down the long city streets on summer afternoons There walked an old man, they called him Jimmy Spoons Time that I remember, me and all the other kids We followed him the long, long day through
Ch: Hey Jimmy, won’t you play one more tune One of those you learned across in France Hey Jimmy, won’t you give us just one more Play one so the little kids can dance
Played his old mouth organ and his spoons they beat out time All the kids they followed him, he didn’t seem to mind Times I often wondered, why he was just a tramp And where he went when the long hot day was done
All the medals that he wore shone in the sun Memories of the trenches, of a war that was long gone Now he was no soldier, just a dosser out of luck Living in that hostel on the hill
Somewhere out in France a shell had torn his mind Left him bent and broken, wearing rags, wearing a smile What happened in the trenches, in the mud and in the tears What happened to your life Jimmy Spoons Down the long city streets, I walk past my old home I have seen some changes, now that I have grown Still you hear them singing on a summer’s afternoon You hear the kids all say to Jimmy Spoons