This song came from a comment I made on a song of Arthur Rossi's. I suddenly realised I had a song right there and as I had been AWOL from FAWM for 36 hours with family commitments, I was so pleased to get the creative juices flowing that I dropped everything and wrote this as quickly as if it were a skirmish.
Intro (F) (Eb) (D) (Gm)l
(Gm) We got chatting in the bank queue
She was so (Eb) hot I was thunder(D)struck
When she in(Gm)vited me back to her place
I (Bb) couldn't believe my (D) luck
I (Cm) gave her my deposit
And (Gm) after my withdrawal
She (F) said my account was cancelled
And (Bb) kicked me (D) out the (Gm) door
(Cm) Ah, those brief encounters
That (Gm) offered so much,
De(F)livered so little
Most (Gm) times ended in tears
You'd (Cm) think they'd be forgotten
(Gm) Once you lost touch
But they (F) often haunt our memories
For (Eb) year (D) after (Gm) year
(Gm) The Uni disco twelve o'clock
She (Eb) smiled at me and (D) swayed
I'd (Gm) seen her once in biology
Now she (Bb) wanted to get (D) laid
In her (Cm) unmade bed we tumbled
But we'd (Gm) had too much to drink
The ex(F)periment lasted seconds
And (Bb) boy did her (D) breath (Gm) stink
CHORUS
(Gm) He saw me in the city
Seeking (Eb) shelter from the (D) storm
And (Gm) offered me a place to sleep
He (Bb) said would keep me (D) warm
It (Cm) turned out that the offer came
With pre(Gm)dictable strings attached
But it was (F) that or a freezing archway
So I (Bb) let him (D) round the (Gm) back
CHORUS
@sheilerk Apr 2022
I'm a little brain dead at the moment, so can't come up with anything clever to say about this, but I think you may have used up all of the clever on some of those lines, not to mention some great double entendres and a life lesson or two.
@kahlo2013 Mar 2022
I know I listened to this before, I’m surprised I don’t comment but glad I didn’t as it is great to hear again. I love all of those vivid examples of those brief and memorably unpleasant encounters. Sadly those little traumatic or out of the ordinary experiences do make a vivid impression that is hard to erase. It is somehow comforting to know that others may have such haunting slice of life fragments from decades ago emerging now and then.
@wolfkier Mar 2022
You had me at deposit and withdrawal. LOL!
The unrelenting mousewheel of events is beautifully conveyed in the vocal presentation and hypnotic fingerpicking patern.
Well done.
@max Feb 2022
Big grin on my face listening to this treat. It unquestionably is a keeper.
@chipwithrow Feb 2022
First of all, that's some swell uke playing - nifty chord changes, too!
Sharp and vivid storytelling - brought back some shame of my own.
And I loved the limerick you used for your comment on my Bach banjo song!
@davidbreslin101 Feb 2022
Nicely done- the lyrics are hilarious and brutally unsentimental, which makes an interesting combo with the melancholy music!
@cblack Feb 2022
Great lyrics! Such a fun song. Very storytelling music, too. Nice one!
@kenmattsson Feb 2022
Really good wordplay here. Cool concept and well executed. Really interesting chords on the uke also! I don't play many of these much.
Nice job.
@stephenwordsmith Feb 2022
I really liked the chorus. The identical-twin duet really lifted it. I also think the 'Pippa's Song' rhyming scheme was a very good fit - one doesn't see it all that often in songs.
It's interesting that a catalogue of a checkered past told through saucy double entendres can actually leave me feeling a little philosophical. I've certainly had meaningful chance encounters - perhaps not of quite the same nature - that have been living in my head with the sort of rent control seen only on F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
@lifewithtomcat Feb 2022
The premise is SOOOOOOOO dead on! WHY?!?!?! Why do some of these things linger in our heads?!?!?!
@jayjay Feb 2022
Lol. Those lyrics. Amazingly funny.
@cindyrella Feb 2022
Good to get them flowing especially when this is the result! Love the uke!
@n1742 Feb 2022
great lyrics and nice uke playing. I like the double track vocal in the chorus gives it even more oomph. some very cool rhymes.