Peter Straker

1) Ragtime Piano Joe (1977)
2) Jackie (1977)

1) Ragtime Piano Joe (Words and Music by Fraser)
Freddie produced and backing vocals

The man who made his name in the moving picture show
Was the man whose face we saw but whose voice we didn't know
The only things we heard him say were on the cards we read too slow
The man who made them speak was Ragtime Piano Joe

It was the only life that he knew
Ragtime Piano Joe
It was the only thing he could do
Ragtime Piano Joe
And when the hero walked in the door
Or Charlie Chaplin fell through the floor
Who was it made the show?
Ragtime Piano Joe

Al Jolson mooned and crooned when talking pictures came to town
Hoagy Carmichael played a tune it really bought Joe down
Then Busby Berkley clinched the deal and all the flicks had sound
Joe took his life one night, they say that he was drowned

La la la la la la la la la

If late at night into the movie house you go
Sit at the back stay out of sight you can still hear Ragtime Joe
When the crowds are gone the old time songs the ones we used to know
Can still be heard but very faint, it's the ghost of poor old Joe

2) Jackie (Words and Music by Brel/Schuman/Jouannest)
Freddie produced and backing vocals

And if one day I should become
A singer with a Spanish bum
Who sings for women of great virtue
I'd sing to them with a guitar
I'd 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 when 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

If I could be for only an hour
If I could be for an hour every day
If I could be for one little hour
Cute in a stupid ass way

And if I joined the social whirl
Became procurer of young girls
Then I would have mu own bordellos
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
Whisky that came from Twickenham
Authentic queers and phony virgins
If I had banks on every finger
A finger in every country
And all the countries rules by me
Then I'd know where I'd want to be
Locked up inside my opium den
Surrounded by some Chinamen
I'd sing the song I sang of then
About the time they called me Jackie

Now tell me wouldn't it be nice
That if one day in paradise
I'd sing for all the ladies up there
And they would sing along with me
We'd be so happy then to be
Cause down below is really nowhere
And if my name were juniper
Then I would know where I was going
Then I'd become all knowing
And my beard so very long and flowing
If I became 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 the devil too
Would sing my childhood song to me
About the time they called me Jackie

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