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Words and music by Julian Gaskell ©2009


JG – vocals, accordion, piano, washboard

DP – electric guitar

TS – upright bass, vocals

RP – drums

KJ – slide guitar

Coverack Ladies Five-a-side Choir – backing vocals

lyrics

Barbed wire and sleaze is all that I've known

Where the rosebuds and romance used to roam

Free as the covers allowed us to be

A ring made of coal and a bed made of ash

Is all that survived where the hearts used to crash

When life's simpler pleasures have bitten the dust

Need a zimmer frame to lean on...


mills and boon, mills and boon

read one today, I'll read another one quite soon

I'll be content to sit alone here in a room

with a bottle of lambrini and some mills and boon

Mills and boon, mills and boon

It's hardly started but the end is coming soon

I'd give it some more thought but I just ain't got the room

For hearing the things that I don't want to hear


ripe with this nonsense it beckons to me

Down moonlit paths where subscription is free

Am I going to do something that we'll all regret

Strangers at weddings without invitations

Offending the neighbours, friends and relations

When life's simpler pleasures have bitten the dust

Need a zimmer frame to lean on...


mills and boon, mills and boon...

Mrs Mills, Mrs Mills

One tinkle on your ivories could cure all of life's ills

I'll be content to be alone here with my fill

Of babysham and records by the late great Mrs Mills

Mrs Mills, Mrs Mills

They've all forgotten but I love you still

They never got it, so I've got no time

For hearing these things that I don't want to hear

credits

from Here the brute harpies make their nests, released August 1, 2009
Written by J. Gaskell

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Julian Gaskell UK

Described by angry locals as the bastard son of Waits, Strummer, Reinhardt and Rachmaninov, Julian Gaskell’s music over the last 20 years has followed a wayward path of withering agricultural-folk, klezmer accordion, overly-lyrical punk, gypsy-jazz guitar, tangos, waltzes, rhumbas and skiffled-up boogie-woogie piano. ... more

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