Jackie - Jacques Brel Cover - Tommy Wallach

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Lyrics:

And if one day I should become
A sailor with a Spanish bum (oops!)
Who sang to women of great virtue
I'd sing to them on a guitar
I borrowed from a coffee bar
Well what you don't know doesn't hurt you

My name would be Antonio
And all my bridges I would burn
And if I gave them some they'd know
I'd expect something in return
I'd have to get drunk every night
And talk about virility
With some old grandmother who might
Be decked out like a Christmas tree

And though pink elephants I'd see
Though I'd be drunk as I could be
Still I would sing my song to me
About the time they called me Jackie

CHORUS: If I could be for only an hour
If I could be for an hour every day
If I could be for just one little hour
Cute, cute, cute, in a stupid-assed way

And if I join the social whirl
Become a procurer of young girls
Then I would have my own bordello
My record would be number one
And I'd sell records by the ton
All sung by many other fellows

My name would then be Handsome Jack
And I'd sell boats of opium
Whiskey that came from Twickenham
Authentic queers and phony virgins
I'd have a bank on every finger
A finger in every country
Every country ruled by me
I still know where I'd want to be

Locked up inside my opium den
Surrounded by some Chinamen
I'd sing the song that I sang then
About the time they called me Jackie

CHORUS

And tell me wouldn't it be nice
That if one day in Paradise
I sang for all the ladies up there
And they would sing along with me
We'd be so happy there to be
Cuz down below is really nowhere

My name would then be Jupiter
And I would know where I was going
And then I would become all-knowing
And my beard so long and flowing
And if I went deaf, dumb, and blind
Because I pitied all mankind
And broke my heart to make things right
I'd know that every single night

When my angelic work was through
The angels and that devil, too
Would sing my childhood songs to me
About the time they called me Jackie

CHORUS

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tommy
• Wallach
• Sad
• Songs
• Sadder
• Stories
• Jacques
• Brel
• Jackie
• Alive
• Well
• Living
• Paris
• French
• Singer
• Mort
• Shuman

[antoneurng]

franchement, c'est excellent. La meilleure interprétation de jackie, et elle est anglaise!

Chapeau!

[snovision]

Merci! J'aime bien d'entendre de les gens francaise! (Desole pour mon francais...)

[Rhondalove]

Yeah, I've listened to all the covers - but you got Heart.

and you introduced me to Magentic Fields - the book of Love.

Talent and Heart. Bravo!

[snovision]

Isn't that song great? You should go buy the whole 69 Love Songs album. It rules.

[pangpangpang18]

That's one of my favorite songs

[reno59fr]

excellent, bravo

[sulimith]

Excellent, really like your stories between the verses, Jacques Brel and Scott Walker would be proud.

[littledwarfsandra]

This is beyond amazing! Making a cover after Brel is no easy task, but yours is a superb interpretation: not trying to copy him (which would be impossible!) and creating your own version: he's passionate and pours his heart out singing, you're laid back and just a little bit light-hearted - original while still respecting the spirit of the song! And telling your story while singing is so nice as well! Excellent cover, I'm sure Brel himself would have liked it! :)

[jrmetmoi]

'That note meant that we were sort of dating....' ha ha haaaaaaa xD

[michelle1112003]

nice voice and piano skills!

[wbridge1802]

I really enjoyed that. You are very talented!

[noahbwalter]

I wish I was more like this guy.

[noahbwalter]

This is one of those songs that I would like to learn keyboard just so I could play it. Good job. Truly inspiring.

[trknox]

Really nice job!

[MultiFootball123]

yh what if she saw it ?

[tom99ss]

Great! One of my favourite songs. And you do it

superb!