Fearless

You say the hill’s too steep to climb, Climb it! You say you’d like to see me try, Climb it! You pick the place and I’ll choose the time And I’ll climb The hill in my own way just wait a while, for the right day And as I rise […]


Continue Reading

Money

Money, get awayGet a good job with more pay and your O.K.Money it’s a gasGrab that cash with both hands and make a stashNew car, caviar, four star daydream,Think I’ll buy me a football teamMoney get backI’m all right Jack keep your hands off my stack.Money it’s a hitDon’t give […]


Continue Reading

Cirrus Minor

In a churchyard by a river,Lazing in the haze of midday,Laughing in the grasses and the graze.Yellow bird, you are alone in singing and in flying on,In and in leaving. Willow weeping in the water,Waving to the river daughters,Swaying in the ripples and the reeds.On a trip to Cirrus Minor, […]


Continue Reading

Seamus

I was in the kitchen Seamus, that’s the dog was outside Well, I was in the kitchen Seamus, my old hound was outside Well, you know the sun was sinking slowly But my hound just sat right down and cried


Continue Reading

Cirrus Minor

In a churchyard by a river,Lazing in the haze of midday,Laughing in the grasses and the graze.Yellow bird, you are alone in singing and in flying on,In and in leaving. Willow weeping in the water,Waving to the river daughters,Swaying in the ripples and the reeds.On a trip to Cirrus Minor, […]


Continue Reading

Summer '68

Would you like to something before you leave?Perhaps you’d care to state exactly how you feel.We say goodbye before we’ve said hello.I hardly even like you.I shouldn’t care at all.We met just six hours ago.The music was too loud.From your bed I came today and lost a bloody year.And I […]


Continue Reading

Corporal Clegg

Corporal Clegg had a wooden legHe won it in the war, in 1944.Corporal Clegg had a medal tooIn orange, red, and blueHe found it in the zoo.Dear, dear were they really sad for me?Dear, dear will they really laugh at me?Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him.Mrs. Clegg, another […]


Continue Reading

Grantchester Meadows

Icy wind of night, be gome.This is not your domain.In the sky a bird was heard to cry.Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring soundsBelied a deathly silence that lay all around.Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox gone to ground.See the splashing of the kingfisher […]


Continue Reading

Brain Damage

The lunatic is on the grassThe lunatic is on the grassRemembering games and daisy chains and laughsGot to keep the loonies on the pathThe lunatic is in the hallThe lunatics are in my hallThe paper holds their folded faces to the floorAnd every day the paper boy brings moreAnd if […]


Continue Reading

Lucifer Sam

Lucifer Sam, siam cat.Always sitting by your sideAlways by your side.That cat’s something I can’t explain.Ginger, ginger, Jennifer Gentle you’re a witch.You’re the left sideHe’s the right side.Oh, no!That cat’s something I can’t explain.Lucifer go to sea.Be a hip cat, be a ship’s cat.Somewhere, anywhere.That cat’s something I can’t explain.At […]


Continue Reading

Fat Old Sun

When that fat old sun in the sky is falling,Summer evening birds are calling.Summer’s thunder time of year,The sound of music in my ears.Distant bells,New mown grass smells so sweet.By the river holding hands,Roll me up and lay me down.And if you sit,Don’t make a sound.Pick your feet up off […]


Continue Reading

Julia Dream

Sunlight bright upon my pillowLighter than an eiderdownWill she let the weeping willowWind his branches roundJulia dream, dreamboat queen, queen of all my dreamsEvery night I turn the light out Waiting for the velvet brideWill the scaly armadilloFind me where I’m hidingJulia dream, dreamboat queen, queen of all my dreamsWill […]


Continue Reading

Jugband Blues

It’s awfully considerate of you to think of me hereAnd I’m much obliged to you for making it clearThat I’m not here.And I never knew we could be so thickAnd I never knew we could be so blueAnd I’m grateful that you threw away my old shoesAnd brought me here […]


Continue Reading

Hey You

Hey you,Out there in the cold,Getting lonely, getting old,Can you feel me?Hey you,Standing in the aisle,With itchy feet and fading smile,Can you feel me?Hey you,Don’t help them to bury the light.Don’t give in without a fight.Hey you,Out there on your own,Sitting naked by the phone,Would you touch me?Hey you,With your […]


Continue Reading

Speak To Me

"I’ve been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, beenover the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands…""I’ve always been mad, I know I’ve been mad, like themost of us…very hard to explain why you’re mad, evenif you’re not mad…"


Continue Reading