Jackie - Scott Walker

Jackie - Scott Walker/Walker Brothers
Written by：Jacques Brel/Gérard Jouannest/Jacques BrelGérard Jouannest
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 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 grandmama
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 Jacky
If I could be for only an hour
If I could be for an hour every day
If I could be for just one little hour
A cute cute in a stupid ass way
And if I joined the social whirl
Became procurer of young girls
Then I would have my 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 every country ruled by me
I'd still know where I'd want to be
Locked up inside my opium den
Surrounded by some China men
I'd sing the song that I sang then
About the time they called me Jacky
If I could be for only an hour
If I could be for an hour every day
If I could be for just one little hour
A cute cute in a stupid ass way
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
And we be so happy there to be
'Cos down below is really nowhere
And if my name would Dieu le Père
Then I would know where I was going
And then I would become all knowing
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 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 Jacky
If I could be for only an hour
If I could be for an hour every day
If I could be for just one little hour
A cute cute in a stupid ass way