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Track 8: To Have a Good Time

Don’t dilly dally in the alley let’s get out of this place
Skedaddle in the saddle with the wind in our face
Get your load on the road is your charabanc stowed?
We can sing the blues in our travelling mode
Set off in the morning, heading out west
Road trip, trail ship, it’s turning out best
Solid steel, spinning wheel and I know how you feel
Satellite skies and a passion that’s real

And I hear them calling to me, a siren from way cross the sea
The palladium, a stadium, best of all a festival or any old fleapit that’ll pay us at all
To have a good time (just me and you), we’ll be having a good time (on the road it’s true)
We’ll have a good time (touring the nation) having a good time you’ll be a sensation
(We’ll be having a good time) singing our songs (always a good time) all summer long
Such a good time (so what do you say?) out on the road with me

It won’t be highfalutin if the aim is instituting
A night of tooty fruitin’ and a reeling and a rooting
Are you sold? Feeling bold? Let’s cut to the chase
On a mission to the stars and the bustle and pace

Well it’s your turn (my turn) your turn (my turn) your turn but that’s easy to say
When it’s my turn (your turn) my turn (your turn) my turn and at the end of the day
It may be my turn to drive but it’s your turn to find the map
It may be my turn to drive but it’s your turn to find the way
There will be hell to pay if we don’t make it there today

(c) Dr Josh P Davis

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from Swinging for England, released January 1, 2012
JD and the Longfellows

Josh P Davis (JD Longfellow): Song-writing, vocals and guitar
Clare Portman: Vocals, guitar, percussion, washboard, keyboards
Gemma Gayner: String arrangements, violin, vocals
Supported by.....
Greg McDonald: Mandolin, harmonica, accordion, vocals
James Boston: Piano, keyboards
Harry Perry: Bass
Nathan Persad: Drums and vocals

Recorded at the Music Complex, Deptford
Engineered: Chris Mansell
Producers: Josh Davis, Chris Mansell
Artwork: Ann-Marie Mullarkey

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JD and the Longfellows UK

From SE London, JD and the Longfellows perform a cocktail of original dynamic musical folk theatre - Oscar and Hammerstein meets Johnny Cash. They have released 3 albums, played over 200 gigs sometimes as an acoustic trio (violin, guitar, percussion and 3 vocals) or as a full band with up to 8 members and harmonies, while they “sweep the place with joy, with their off-the-dial feel-good factor". ... more

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