Features Steve Gibbons sharing vocals with me...I was thrilled to bits. If Springsteen is The Boss...then Steve's The Gaffer :-). The song was a great live favourite with The Gentlemen Bandits as well.
lyrics
Singapore Joe
Well Singapore Joe's got a one man show teaching us his culture,
You know, living in the west caught up with him fast,
He lost it all to Bacardi and Coke,
Let it go, let it go.
Well he once told me that he broke a girl's heart and sailed away across the ocean,
Well she found him out and she punched him up,
He said ''son I'm still wearing those scars'',
Let it go, let it go, let it go.
(Chorus)
Well he told me a tale of near and far and I've never heard any better,
They told of love, fast women fast car's and…
Big bucks, hard luck, well they told of life,
Well my food for thought is to look back at a part of his life.
Well the finest wines he said he'd drunk to wash down a Chicken Chow Mein,
Well I took that with a pinch of salt,
But there's story's when I've wished I was there,
Let it go, let it go, let it go.
(Chorus)
Well now that your not around no more, now you've shot your lead,
Well I hope your somewhere giving them hell,
And keeping one step ahead of the law,
Let it go, let it go, let it go.
(Chorus)
(Ad lib to the end with) Singapore Joe, Singapore Joe,
He's gotta' one - man - travelling show,
He ain't gonna' work no railroad he ain't gonna' do no white man's laundry,
He's gonna' get out on the road, doing what he knows is the best,
Hey Joe, Hey! where you going with that gun in your hand.
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