Happy Loving Couples (Joe Jackson cover)

(Jackson) from the album "Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!" (1979)

I've just been to see my best friend
He's got another girl
Says shes just about the best thing
In the whole damn world

And he says can't you see what the little lady's done for me
Says it like he thinks I'm blind
But the things that you see ain't necessarily the things you can find

Happy loving couples make it look so easy
Happy loving couples always talk so kind
Until the time that I can do my dancing with a partner
Those happy couples ain't no friends of mine

People say I'm too damn fussy
When it comes to girls
Happy couples say I must live
In a lonely world

Wanna be, wanna really be what my friends pretend to be
Be it in my own good time
Being kind to myself till I become one of two of a kind

Happy loving couples make it look so easy
Happy loving couples always talk so kind
Until the time that I can do my dancing with a partner
Those happy couples ain't no friends of mine

You ain't no friends of mine

You know what I mean
Happy loving couples
In matching white Polo neck sweaters
Reading ideal homes magazine

Yeah!

Wanna be, wanna really be what my friends pretend to be
Be it in my own good time
Being kind to myself till I become one of two of a kind

Happy loving couples make it look so easy
Happy loving couples always talk so kind
Until the time that I can do my dancing with a partner
Those happy couples ain't no friends of mine

You ain't no friends of mine
You ain't no friends of mine
You ain't no friends of mine
You ain't no friends of mine
You ain't no friends of mine

Right, that's enough

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[igenevieve]

I want to make a parody of this song, was looking if anyone had done it before. Its so cool. You interpret with conviction in you own personal style, well done! Félicitations! D'une fille de Montréal, Geneviève

[palbolt]

Are you not in Melbourne?

[guitarquejamais]

awesome ! great !

[lasmusic]

very creative cover!!! excellent!

[davidgetzoff]

Awesome! Nice Cover!

[luvanani]

The irony that it was fun harmonizing with a recording about being content to be alone. Great version! Thanks for posting this.