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Edwina

from Up To Snuff by Ivan St John

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Kids of only seventeen and we could hardly tell apart
The bourgeois and the bohemians that milled about the boulevards.
The laughter tumbling out of every window and hanging round the cobbles to dance,
We saw a poster on the door of a bar which read "Le Quintet du Hotclub de France"

We'd stay friends for so many years

Her and I,
Who's that gypsy playing sweet guitar?
Man beside him playing violin.
We were drinking whisky by the jar,
Still remember and it makes me cry.

We left the building with the sun coming up, back to the hotel for a quarter to five.
Stood in the lobby in our tip-tilted hats as the morning staff began to arrive.
The porter looked at us through his waxy eyes and politely asked us where we had been.
We nodded rummily, and tried to explain, but had no idea where we should begin.

Some things must be heard to be believed.

Her and I,
Who's that gypsy playing sweet guitar?
Man beside him playing violin.
We were drinking whisky by the jar,
Still remember and it makes me cry.

Take me back, take me back to where we were before.
Man, that boy he made the whole place swing,
Man beside him playing violin,
Crowd was dancing right out the door,
We were dancing 'til our feet were raw.
Still remember and it makes me cry.

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from Up To Snuff, released November 12, 2010
Written and produced by Ivan St John
Engineered by Rob Bochnik

Ivan St John - guitars, vocals, backing vocals
Liam Marley - bass
Ray Murphy - drums
David Levine - flute

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