Mr Solomons Said

One day Mr Solomons said

There was a little black cloud over your head

Anyway you’ve received a threat

Or so he understands

I’m a country lad but I see it too

How much it’s got to you

And now you’re slipping down

Into the shadowlands

My life’s the fighting game

I keep my cool, I stay the same

We never mind how bad it is

In fact we like all your

Showbiz shenanigans

And Jack wants to help you out

Is what it’s all about

With Mr Solomons

We like the flashbulbs, pop, pop, pop

All the razzamatazz

We like the big nights, the West End lights

And all of that jazz

And you can bet

Jack is never going back

To Frying Pan Alley

You can bet Jack is never going back

To Frying Pan Alley

He signed me as a prospect, see

Then something let go in my knee

But I’m no clapped out punchateer

Like some of the other ones

Promoting’s all about the gate

Information’s worth its weight

I’m the eyes and ears and it’s great

With Mr Solomons

Daytimes I’ll make the rounds

In every caff and every pub In this part of town

There’s a mug or a pug

And always someone blathering

It’s gossip calypso all day long

Who’s the money going on

Who’s been training wrong

Got hurt or struggling

Well I might have a couple with a cornerman

The one with the sponge and bucket

I’ve maybe got a bottle for a club doorman

Tickets for a waitress in my pocket

She said ‘It’s me or the ring, Jack’ years ago

So he swapped his gloves for Savile Row

Jack’s no pushover though

He likes that story told

Behind the pinstripe buttonhole

Behind the yellow rose

Beats a heart of gold

Now he’s got me something new

Which is to look out for you

I said, ‘I’d be happy to, Mr Solomons’

One day Mr Solomons said

‘London, son, we have got some hard pavements’

There’s more to the man than the motto read

On the wall above his head

‘Winners win, losers make their own arrangements’

You can bet Jack is never going back

To Frying Pan Alley

Yeah, you can bet Jack is never going back

To Frying Pan Alley

You can bet Jack is never going back

To Frying Pan Alley

Yeah, you can bet Jack is never going back

To Frying Pan Alley