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Me & Betty

from GHOSTS by Jim Woodland

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In ‘Me and Betty’, our hero fails to communicate his true feelings preferring to hide behind a deceptive and manipulative shadow. How very unlike most of the men you meet! (Patriarchy rears its ugly head!)

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Me and Betty sitting on a bench
I’m down in the mouth
She’s up at the other end
Between us like a very old friend
Sits my shadow
I’m talking to him
I say
Tell her I love her pass it on
He says
Tell her yourself
I said will you please
Tell her I love her pass it on
He says
Tell her yourself

I talk to my shadow
And he passes things along
But I heard him and Betty talking yesterday
And some of the things he said were wrong
I said
Tell her I love her pass it on
He says
Tell her yourself
I said will you please
Tell her I love her pass it on
He says
Tell her yourself

I know I should talk to Betty
That’s something that I should do
I really want to tell her
That I never told a lie
But I just can’t tell the truth
So I say tell her I love her pass it on
He says tell her yourself
I said will you please
Tell her I love her pass it on?
Tell her yourself

Betty! Betty! Where are you?
You can’t see me over here.
Talking to my shadow.
Well he looks like me.
He’s not really me.
He never says how much I care…
So I say
Tell her I love her pass it on.
Tell her yourself.
I said will you please
Tell her I love her pass it on
Tell her yourself

So now we’re sitting here
Like Morcambe and Wise
Like Burke and Hare
Like Jekyll and Hyde
I know my shadows telling her lies
About me….
It’s like roller skating over a mattress
Like tap dancing in my bed
Like talking with a flannel
wrapped around my face
I turned to my shadow
And I said just once more
Tell her I love her pass it on
Tell her yourself
I said will you please
Tell her I love her pass it on
Tell her yourself

Now Betty’s gone to Clapham Town
That’s somewhere she likes to hide
I really should have told her
how much I care
I couldn’t find the lies
to say how much I care

You should have told her that I love her
You should have told her yourself
You should have told her I care
You should have told her that I love her
Well she’s gone now…
Oh yeh……..

© Jim Woodland

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from GHOSTS, released June 15, 2022

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Jim Woodland UK

Hit & Run Street Theatre in the 1980's, Punk Band Red Rinse in the 90's, Fabulous Salami Brothers, Songwriter for Mikron Theatre and Blaize for 20 years, performing solo, and with the Anti-Capitalist Roadshow.
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