Dagens sang: Eastborne Ladies – Kevin Coyne
23. oktober 2012
You’re always on your own
sitting on those seaside chairs on your own
everybody there just passes you by
Nobody seems to care
if you flash your underwear
no i don’t tell no lie
Your vested days are done
now you know you’re on the run
oh lady why why?
Your white and powdered face
you need some holy grace
to pull yourself right back again
Chorus:
Eastbourne ladies
with your hair done up so nice
Eastbourne ladies
with your tea and lemon ice lemon ice.
I think you need something new
but you don’t know just what to do
croquet on the lawn yet again
You smile at passing boys
you can’t offer any joys
you don’t understand young men
Got your money in the bank
money in the bank now let’s be frank
i want more
than ten thousands pounds
I want everything you’ve got i
want the lot give me
give me give me give me all you got
oh help me i need some,
i’m so poor now
Chorus:
Eastbourne ladies
with your hair done up so nice
Eastbourne ladies
with your tea and lemon ice lemon ice.
So i wander round the town
looking into rooms for you up and down
i see you everywhere
I believe i have choice
i believe i made my choice
come here old lady ??
Fifty years upon the beach
you should be tanned by now you’re out of reach
i hope i don’t bring you down
Everything special about you
your pearls your jewels and your money too
oh do you wear a crown
when you go to bed now?
Chorus:
Eastbourne ladies
with your hair done up so nice
Eastbourne ladies
with your tea and lemon ice lemon ice.
So now the day is done
the sun disappears and it starts to run
Oh the darkness creeps around
Moonlight sings and moonlight dreams
nothing to see you make me ??
As i watch you tottering round this town
Nobody there nobody there to care you’re ??
who really cares
I’ll hold you tight maybe maybe for a year
When the day the day is done
all my heart it starts to run
Overflows on your plate
you’d better eat it all eat it eat it eat it
Dagens sang er fra en af mine favoritplader med Kevin Coyne, Marjory Razorblade (1973), Coynes andet soloalbum. En Rolling Stonesk rocksang, der på bedste britiske, socialrealistiske vis fortæller en historie om velbjergede kvinder – Eastborne ladies – og de fattige unge mænd, de kigger på (og måske mere end det…). Et narrativt snapshot af det britiske klassesamfund, båret af indignation, begær og skarp iagttagelsesevne. En fornem angry young men-sang.
PS. Det sidste vers i sangen er ikke med på den originale CD-udgave, men på LP’en og Virgin Records dobbeltcdudgave fra 2010. Kevin Coyne døde desværre i 2002 af en lungesygdom. Men heldigvis har han efterladt sig en langt række fine plader – og hans enke Helmi arbejder på at udgive hans efterladte sange. For Coyne var aktiv langt ind i sin sygdomsperiode. I år er Nobody dies in Dreamland – Home Recordings from 1972 udkommet. En udmærket introduktion til Kevin Coyne finder man i bokssættet I want my crown fra 2010.
