UNIT A Song For Barbara Jackson

One of our best pop ballads, a lovely tribute to a lovely girl whose musical skills and ability to play the piano while smoking a cigarette and drinking a glass of whisky must make her eligible for canonisation.

Barbara Jackson was a girl with glorious green eyes,
short black hair and beauty that no make-up could disguise.
In music she was always at the top of the class:
there was no examination that she could not pass.
I liked her best of all out of every girl in our year
so isn’t it a shame that I was born a bloody queer?

Barbara – I love you – yes I do!

I made everybody think I fancied her like mad.
I suppose the way I acted was probably rather sad
but I possessed a secret far too wretched to reveal –
a love for certain lads that no boy should ever feel,
yet I was thick and ugly (everybody made that clear),
so perhaps it’s just as well that I was born a bloody queer.

Barbara – I love you – yes I do!

I went on a school trip with Barbara, Susan and the boys;
I suspected pretty soon that they’d engage in carnal joys.
Miss Brown and Mr Jenkins took secret pictures like spies
and the wrist job Barbara gave me took me rather by surprise
but I made damned sure I told them all, to hide my dreaded fear
that one of them might find out I was born a bloody queer.

Barbara – I love you – yes I do!

Andy Martin - Vocals, Keyboards, Vibraphone.
Fabian Fritze - Bass Guitars.
Colin Murrell - Drums.
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Adrian Gormley - Saxophones.

Text & Music - Andy Martin.

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