Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Paula Wolfe
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Paula Wolfe
Songwriter
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
No child when I'm gone
To pass on to her own
A kind of holding
A kind of feeding
A kind of whispering
Bad dreams away
[Verse 2]
No child to remember my smell
To retell the tales
I had to tell
So I write it all down
And I thread in a tune
Like a prisoner
Scratching obscenities
On a prison wall
In futile rebellion
And I rant within four walls
Amidst the cacophony -
Not to raise my voice
Above the din -
Just to join in
[Verse 3]
I heard someone say
Just the other day
On the radio
Or in a film
Or somewhere
That when it comes to the end
All you've got
Is where you came from
[Verse 4]
A summer's day 1968 or 9?
Sitting on a swing
Singing up to the sky
Spitting stars
And watching them fall and glisten on my thigh
[Verse 5]
Gillian Dubber's grandmother
Is cleaning their upstairs windows
She waves to me
A fat-armed, dusty wave
[Verse 6]
In the kitchen
My mother boils potatoes
Hot potatoes
On a hot summer's day
For my father's dinner
We called it dinner even though
It was during the day
[Verse 7]
He rides home on his bicycle
From the factory
I run in and clamber on his knee
He asks if we've been watching
Andy Pandy and Loppy Loo
On TV?
My mother tells him
"we've been dancing
In the kitchen
To our favourite song"
By Engelbert Humperdinck
[Verse 8]
Time to go
He lets me ride as far
As the curve in the road
Holding me tight
On the white
Leather saddle
Then lifts me down and rides away
And I run back to my swing
And continue to sing
"I love Jennifer Eccles
I know she loves me"
[Verse 9]
No child to remember my smell
To retell the tales
I had to tell
So, I write it all down
And I thread in a tune
Like a prisoner
Scratching obscenities
On a prison wall
In futile rebellion
And I rant within four walls
Amidst the cacophony -
Not to raise my voice
Above the din -
Just to join in
[Verse 10]
"I love Jennifer Eccles
I know she loves me
I love Jennifer Eccles
I know she loves me"
Written by: Paula Mary Wolfe
