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Gut das jemand hier an diesem grossartigen Lied erinnert. "The days of Perly Spencer" ist bis heute eins der aussergewöhnlisten Song die je geschrieben wurden; man nennt sowas ein "One hit Wonder" aber ich finde die Arrangements dermaßen originell das es auf meiner Liste unter den TOP 10 für immer bleiben wird. Die Stimme McWilliams klingt wie aus dem Megaphon rausgeschossen und die Streicher im Hintergrund geben dem Song eine Dynamik die mich immer am Start der Apollo 11 erinnert. Hier den Text, aus dem man leicht erahnen kann das der Hauptdarsteller ein Obdachloser war ;-):

A tenement, a dirty street
Walked and worn by shoeless feet
Inside it's long and so complete
Watched by a shivering sun
Old eyes in a small child's face
Watching as the shadows race
Through walls and cracks and leave no trace
And daylight's brightness shuns

The days of Pearly Spencer
Ahh Ahh
The race is almost run

Nose pressed hard on frosted glass
Gazing as the swollen mass
On concrete fields where grows no grass
Stumbles blindly on
Iron trees smother the air
But withering they stand and stare
Through eyes that neither know nor care
Where the grass is gone

The days of Pearly Spencer...

Pearly where's your milk white skin
What's that stubble on your chin
It's buried in the rot-gut gin
You played and lost not won
You played a house that can't be beat
Now look your head's bowed in defeat
You walked too far along the street
Where only rats can run

The days of Pearly Spencer...

A tenement, a dirty street
Remember worn and shoeless feet
Remember how you stood to beat
The way your life had gone
So Pearly don't you shed more tears
For those best forgotten years
Those tenements are memories
Of where you've risen from

2007-01-18 23:42:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5 1

Pearly Spencer war ein obdachloser Schulfreund von McWilliams

2007-01-19 07:04:42 · answer #2 · answered by mordred1970 1 · 2 0

hallo,war meines wissens ein rennfahrer

2007-01-19 07:08:08 · answer #3 · answered by hugo b 2 · 1 1

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