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Spring Heeled Jack

from Into The Brine by The Smokin' Pilchards

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lyrics

Joseph Darby, Joseph Darby jumper
Spring Heeled Jack, Spring Heeled Jack
Born down on Windmill End to Abe and Martha
Netherton lad, yes Spring Heeled Jack
Well you didn’t get much of an education
But that didn’t hold you down now dear Joe.

Now you can sling your weights
Jump the gap and win the race
There ‘aint no better, there ‘aint no better
You can jump the cut, throw yourself head over foot
There ‘aint no better, there ‘aint no better
Joseph Darby

Well by day you chip away at those nails for horses
You keep the furnace burnin’ for your dough
By night you don the miners cap and jump the cut forth and back
They call you a ghoul, Spring Heeled Jack they’ll say
But leapings where your talents lie dear Joseph
Jumpin’ is the game you like to play.

Now you can sling your weights
Jump the gap and win the race
There ‘aint no better, there ‘aint no better
You can jump the cut, throw yourself head over foot
There ‘aint no better, there ‘aint no better
Joseph Darby

Well you got so rich and you got so high
But it all came down to earth with a crash now why?
Well Collquit, he hit you where it hurt now
You lost your title and you lost your game.

Now your down at the Albion in
Still a hero serving ales telling tales of the wins
And though spring heeled, yes you’re long gone
Your story Joseph Darby will live on.

Now you can sling your weights
Jump the gap and win the race
There ‘aint no better, there ‘aint no better
You can jump the cut, throw yourself head over foot
There ‘aint no better, there ‘aint no better
Joseph Darby, Spring Heeled Jack.

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from Into The Brine, released May 25, 2018

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Alternative UK based band playing blues and folk influenced music.

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