I HAVEN’T GOT AN ALBUM COMING OUT © Don Read 11.10.12
When I was ten me mum bought me a second hand guitar
She said that if I practiced hard one day I’d be a star
I learnt to play three chords and how to sway and stagger
I sang in incoherent style . I thought I was Mick Jagger
One day an agent spotted me and changed my bland demeanor
I did what Englebert had done but mum said I looked meaner
They dressed me up in fancy clothes and I became Beau Brummell
We made a promo video inside the Mersey tunnel
Me mum thought that Beau Niddle was a more appropriate name
It would be much more distinctive when I got worldwide fame
With dreams of photo calls, PAs,. I sent a thousand demos
To all the big recording chaps what ride about in limos
I waited for the phone to ring with offers of big contracts
It seemed that something’s missing I needed far more contacts
Well here I am at fifty still playing local pubs
They love me doing Beatles stuff in half empty clubs
And every night I ponder on what life’s all about
Then I open up my window and I begin to shout
“No I haven’t got an album –I haven’t got an album
It’s unlikely that I’ll ever have an album coming out”
don-read@tiscali.co.uk www.youtube.com/donread
When I was ten me mum bought me a second hand guitar
She said that if I practiced hard one day I’d be a star
I learnt to play three chords and how to sway and stagger
I sang in incoherent style . I thought I was Mick Jagger
One day an agent spotted me and changed my bland demeanor
I did what Englebert had done but mum said I looked meaner
They dressed me up in fancy clothes and I became Beau Brummell
We made a promo video inside the Mersey tunnel
Me mum thought that Beau Niddle was a more appropriate name
It would be much more distinctive when I got worldwide fame
With dreams of photo calls, PAs,. I sent a thousand demos
To all the big recording chaps what ride about in limos
I waited for the phone to ring with offers of big contracts
It seemed that something’s missing I needed far more contacts
Well here I am at fifty still playing local pubs
They love me doing Beatles stuff in half empty clubs
And every night I ponder on what life’s all about
Then I open up my window and I begin to shout
“No I haven’t got an album –I haven’t got an album
It’s unlikely that I’ll ever have an album coming out”
don-read@tiscali.co.uk www.youtube.com/donread