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Jukebox

by Mandolin Jack

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Finally got round to recording a track first inspired in the late 70s, finished in 1984 & tweaked in 2021!

Please pay what you can .. it goes towards mandolin strings!

Movie shot in The Rifleman, 4th Cross Rd, Twickenham - see video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZpekjmNiyI

lyrics

In a bar around the corner
Sits a solitary man
And he likes to tell the customers
That he once was in a band;
Although I’d never heard of them before they took a dive
His local bar is helping
Keep his memories alive.

‘Coz they’ve still got his record on the jukebox
Though the girl that he sang it for is married now and gone
They’ve still got his record on the jukebox
He’s the only one to put it on

He will tell you of the studio
They hired just for fun
And how they cut a 45
Bound for Number One …
He says “You must have heard of it, it made number 39”
And as he sits beside the jukebox
He will play it one more time.

It’s an old scratched and worn-out blues
Like a good old pair of walkin’ shoes
Makes you feel like nothing can go wrong;
There’s something in that melody
That just keeps right on haunting me
But for him it don’t mean nothing now she’s gone.

I was in there Monday
When she walked in the saloon
Something ‘bout her caught my eye
As she climbed the bar-room stool,
The same old walk, the same old smile from all those years gone by
Come back to find the man she loved
And the song that made her cry.

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released January 1, 2021
Written, played & sung in TW2. © Chris Tulloch 2021

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Mandolin Jack London, UK

Mainly a songwriter - in Americana mood ; with some mandolin, a bit of guitar, some boogie-woogie keyboards and starting to get to grips with some lap-steel!

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