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Goodbye Girl Lament
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Lyrics: Derek Rutherford Music and Performance: Nick Quarmby
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Tonedeaf Jnr. was born into a family of travelling midgets back in 1963, which fortunately coincided with the craze in building roller-coasters. You see that sign that says 'No-one below 3' 6" allowed on this ride'? That's Tonedeaf Snr's work, that is. He rode just about every new coaster built since '64 to check how low a ride's permissions could go before it started launching the occupants out across the park. That's actually how Snr. met Mrs. Deaf. She was trimming her beard over by the caravans when Snr. came flying through the air, narrowly avoiding a mid-air collision with Busted Bone Billy - who was practising his human cannonball act - and landed on the fortune teller's tent, who luckily had seen him coming in more ways than one and had evacuated to the strongman's arms. It was a right circus, but thereafter - and especially when young Tonedeaf started blowing his horn in public - everyone said it must have been fate.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #44
Peak in subgenre #7
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December 01, 2016
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MP3 4.7 MB • 160 kbps • 4:06
Story behind the song
The last set of my lyrics that my old buddy Nick, may God rest his soul, put to music. Somehow seems fitting that it was a sad and slow lament. But as ever, Nick read my mind and did a wonderful job.
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Goodbye Girl Lament The doctor told me, my chances were slim The Priest he prayed, but the Lord wasn’t in I tried driving fast, drinking slow It’s the same old story everywhere I go I’ve got the sweet-talking gone walking goodbye girl lament Whichever way you look at it, that’s the way she went My congressman wouldn’t do a thing He said his jurisdiction was way too slim I tried driving fast, drinking slow It’s the same old story everywhere I go I’ve got the sweet-talking gone walking goodbye girl lament Whichever way you look at it, that’s the way she went Somebody tell me that I’ll be okay That goodbye girl will be walking this way Mystery train smoking down the track Goodbye girl is coming back The voodoo man put his needles in me Nothing happened but I started to bleed I tried driving fast, drinking slow It’s the same old story everywhere I go I’ve got the sweet-talking gone walking goodbye girl lament Whichever way you look at it, that’s the way she went I’ve got the sweet-talking gone walking goodbye girl lament Whichever way you look at it, that’s the way she went
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