Who sang "up the junction", think the group was around the same time as Squeeze?

Question

Thanks folks, you when it's on the tip of you tongue but you can't convince yourself. I can search for CD now...

Answer 1

I never thought it would happen with me and a girl from clapham (it was squeeze)

Answer 2

Squeeze sang it. It was from tne album Cool For Cats, and was the third single from that album.

The title is a pun, referring to both the slang expression "up the junction" and the Clapham Junction, located near Squeeze's residences at the time.


I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on a windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said you are a lady
Perhaps she said I may be
We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The Railway Arms we're missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up

I got a job with Stanley
He said I'd come in handy
And started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her

This morning at 4:50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another

And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it's my assumption
I'm really up the junction

Answer 3

It was the Squeeze, it got to number 2 in the charts in 1979.

Answer 4

It was the excellent squeeze with Jools Holland on piano.

Answer 5

It was Squeeze who sang it.

Answer 6

It definitely was Squeeze !

Answer 7

It was squeeze, I love that song!

Answer 8

It was Squeeze!

Answer 9

yup, it was Squueze. Was the 3rd single from their album Cool for Cats

Answer 10

you're right...it was SQUEEZE!