Recently, my Scottish friend Ruth (a Paisley girl) posted the picture below on my Facebook wall. It's a shot of the old St.Mirren Football Ground in Paisley, taken sometime in the 60's I believe. I've never been there and it's been knocked down now. But it was called LOVE STREET - which conjured up all kinds of nostalgic images in my overactive romantic head. So I wrote the poem below. No doubt the music will follow shortly ... Of course when you read ... it's pronounced Loooooove Street!
LOVE STREET
I left my heart on Love Street
On the old sunnyside where we used to meet.
We were young, we were brightful and we
didn’t know a thing …
‘Cept how to laugh and how to cry and how to
run and how to sing!
I met my girl on Love Street
‘Neath the old station clock, she was dressed
real neat.
She was fresh, she was beautiful and her heart
was still as pure …
As the driven snow, as glassy ice, as silky
skin and cool allure.
CHORUS:
Yeah Love Street – still it
beckons and even now I make a wish …
To walk that street again in spring, with the
girl I love to kiss.
I left my dreams on Love Street
At the Club ‘O’ Shady, with the banga beat.
Where they dance and they’re joyful; music
playin’ ‘til the dawn …
Of sunrise gold, of foxy turn, of windy warm
and dewy lawn.
I left my soul on Love Street
At the old St.Mirren in the summer heat.
I was fast, I was dutiful, with a passion in
my bones …
Within a team, within a band, with a voice of
many tones.
CHORUS:
Yeah Love Street – still it
beckons and even now I make a wish …
To walk that street again in spring, with the
girl I love to kiss.
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Photograph by Jennifer Smith for a Seve Smith song 'Black & White Town' - a song from 'Love Street - the Movie' - about St.Mirren Football Club - Paisley. © Jennifer Smith http://www.creativematch.com/flair/photography-competition/jennifer-smith/3565/ |
Wicked! ok, now the song!
ReplyDeleteYes and the song is now completed and will be released this spring!!
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