This song will not leave my head! so here

[cannotspell]

Master Jack
by 4 Jacks And A Jill

You took a current rhythm from out of the sky,
and taught me how to use it as the years went by.
To tie up all your problems and make them believe.
And then to sell them to the people in the street.

-CHORUS-
It\'s a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack.
You taught me all I know and I never looked back.
It\'s a

Comments

[retro_rider55]

I guess you figured out what this song's really about? (I had to be hit over the head with it...)

Uhm, remember this 'un by Henson Cargill?

Oh, listen to the children while they play,
Now ain't it kinda funny, what the children say
Skip a rope...

Beat Garth Brooks' The Thunder Rolls by 23(?) years...

[cannotspell]

Perhaps not? I always saw in my mind a young girl with a traveling show guy, you know, like some dude who makes ceramics, and she is with him for a while, sees through his mask, and now she is leaving!

I have a tendency to think in terms of stories when listening to music, I just make them up and they may have nothing to do with the song. What was your take?

[retro_rider55]

Well, someone I knew who had confessed to a brief stint as a Working Girl felt it was about a, well, Working Girl saying goodbye to her pimp. But maybe you can read anything into anything. Would have been a good one to slip past the censors in '67...