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Sunny Bank Holiday Monday

from Sunny Bank Holiday Monday by Jim Woodland

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SUNNY BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY
At heart my songs tend to be about me. Once they feel right I will often adjust the lyrics to make them relevant to general topics while holding the emotional core up to scrutiny. This one came out purely autobiographical about my teenage years on the East Coast of England and I kept it that way. Memories ‘running through the rain like ghosts’…

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SUNNY BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY

One wet wild and windy Monday
Cleethorpes clinging to a clapped out coast.
Big brash bingo, House of Fun .
Day trippers running through the rain like ghosts.
Pacamac old man back on the pier
Bank Holiday Monday year after year
Wet socks jukebox jackpots top of the pops
This is the music he can hear, when he says ...
Brenda I loved you girl
I wouldn't have changed it for the world
The tide is out the wind is still
Brenda I love you still
but it'll be a
Sunny Bank Holiday Monday in Cleethorpes
And the trains will be running on time like they used to do and then
Buddy Holly will be singing live at the Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes
Before she sees him cry again…

Helter Skelter, belt for the shelter far along the ‘Fitties’
where the sea birds call.
Picture postcards long ago our lovers leaning on the North Sea wall.
Effing and blinding, laying down the law
Shouldn't have looked at what the Butler saw.
Cold wind blowing, Brenda going
Tears are flowing from the night before
When he said...
Brenda I loved you girl
I wouldn't have changed it for the world
The tide is out the wind is still
Brenda I love you still
but it'll be a
Sunny Bank Holiday Monday in Cleethorpes
And the trains will be running on time like they used to do and then
Buddy Holly will be singing live at the Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes
Before she sees him cry again…

Roller coaster buttered toast and tea in a cafe on the colonnade.
Old man shapes his name in the rain-drops
steamed up window of the big arcade.
Dog eared letter Brenda has sent. A generous gesture but a bad idea.
Brenda's hand touched him on the shoulder.
Must have been raining for 40 years
Brenda I loved you girl
I wouldn't have changed it for the world
The tide is out the wind is still
Brenda I love you still
but it'll be a
Sunny Bank Holiday Monday in Cleethorpes
And the trains will be running on time like they used to do and then
Buddy Holly will be singing live at the Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes
Before she sees him cry again…

JIM WOODLAND (c)

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from Sunny Bank Holiday Monday, released September 3, 2020
Jim Woodland: Vocals
Steve Rose: Piano & Production

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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.
Political, social, emotional songs and plays. Watch this space. Latest collection here and back catalogue to follow. Welcome to Band Camp and on we go... ... more

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