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The last day of Jimmy Dance

from Guitar Shaped Hammers by Harry Stafford

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Got released in the morning but was dead by midnight,
this is the last day of Jimmy Dance

Said goodbye to his mother and dependable brother
His father in heaven or the other.

Put his medals in order and squared it with God
Drank a draft of Scotch for the road

Then with evil in his heart and murder in his eyes said . . . “now I’m ready”

As he walked through the dark with a knife and a spark
mind racing with blood in his eyes

Looked up into the sky thought he saw a shooting star
a bonfire day rocket lit his path

Not so much tooled-up as brandishing a tulip With some ammo and dad’s service revolver

Then into the lair of the panthers and number 10, said . . . . . “Come die with me”

He took out the doorman with a blade to the heart
The next two the same with a start
Put the forth through a window and the fifth down the stairs,
getting closer to number ten.

With a weapon in his hand he dispatched the sixth,
Squeezing two rounds into the head of number seven

Then as he kicked down the door with number 10 in his sights
He feels the cold steel in his back.

Blood thumping like a night club, blade burning in the wound
He aims at number ten

The Training kicks in, lock-and-load- motherfucker,
He fires at number 10

Body guard intercepts and falls dead to the ground, Number 9 nine he follows the same

“So it’s you and me and I ain’t dying alone!”
This is the last gasp of Jimmy Dance.”

They pulled down the house, made it a car park
No one should walk those rooms again

At the funeral his mother and dependable brother said he’ll meet his father in the other.

Put his medals in order and squared it with God. . . . . Drank a draft of Scotch for the road

Got released in the morning but was dead by midnight, this was the last day of Jimmy Dance

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from Guitar Shaped Hammers, released December 17, 2019

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Harry Stafford Manchester, UK

Harry Stafford is guitarist and singer of post-punk-blues-Gothic-rockers Inca Babies. The incas were formed in Manchester UK., in the 80s. In 2015 he decided to release some solo material that echoes his love of Blues Piano and barroom ballads. But 30 years with the incas meant it wasn’t going to be as musically simplistic as that. Guitar Shaped Hammers and Gothic Urban Blues are the result. ... more

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