Jimmie Standing In The Rain

Jimmie Standing In The Rain Lyrics

Song Jimmie Standing In The Rain
Artist Elvis Costello
Album National Ransom
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[00:03.22] Third-Class ticket in his pocket
[00:08.37] Punching out the shadows underneath the sockets
[00:11.61] Tweed coat turned up against the fog
[00:15.33] Slow coaches rolling o'er the moor
[00:17.88] Between the very memory
[00:20.05] And approaches of war
[00:23.97] Stale bread curling on a luncheon counter
[00:28.07] Loose change lonely, not the right amount
[00:32.00] Forgotten Man of an
[00:33.78] indifferent nation
[00:36.21] Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
[00:41.22] Somebody's calling you again
[00:44.23] The sky is falling
[00:45.94] Jimmie's standing in the rain
[00:51.28] Nobody wants to buy a counterfeited prairie lullaby in a colliery town
[01:00.61] A hip flask and fumbled skein with
[01:03.81] some stagedoor Josephine is all
[01:06.67] he'll get now
[01:09.68] Eyes going in and out of focus
[01:12.74] Mild and bitter from tuberculosis
[01:16.48] Forgotten Man
[01:18.66] Indifferent nation
[01:21.15] Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
[01:26.22] Somebody's calling you again
[01:29.14] The sky is falling
[01:30.95] Jimmie's standing in the rain
[01:41.31] Her soft breath was gentle on his neck
[01:45.95] If he could choose the time to die
[01:50.90] Then he would come and go like this
[01:55.91] Underneath a painted sky
[02:00.94] She woke up and called him "Charlie" by mistake
[02:05.68] And then in shame began to cry
[02:10.90] Tarnished silver band peals off a phrase
[02:15.20] And then warms their hands around the brazier
[02:20.29] Forgotten Man
[02:22.46] Indifferent nation
[02:25.05] Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
[02:30.05] Somebody's calling you again
[02:33.09] It's finally dawning
[02:34.90] Jimmie's standing in the rain
[02:45.35] Brilliantine glistening
[02:49.69] Your soft plaintive whistling
[02:53.55] And your wan wandering smile
[02:59.77] Died down at The Hippodrome
[03:02.49] Now you're walking off to jeers,
[03:05.22] the lonely sound of jingling spurs,
[03:08.46] the "toodle-oos" and "Oh, my dears"
[03:13.00] down at "The Argyle"
[03:17.86] Vile vaudevillians applaud sobriety
[03:21.49] There's no place for a half-cut
[03:24.41] cowboy in polite society
[03:27.46] Forgotten Man
[03:29.33] Indifferent nation
[03:32.05] Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
[03:36.96] Somebody's calling you again
[03:39.99] It's finally dawning Jimmie's standing in the rain
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