J. Patrick SharpeWhy Jack Why? Acoustic

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Our favorite nursery rhyme hero is depressed but he's not giving up that easily. © J. Patrick Sharpe. Lyrics and music by J. Patrick Sharpe.

Jack wasn’t anywhere near the hill He was trying to stay far away from Jill Ever since the day they both fell down You never see Jack comin’ around And Jill’s at the bottom of the hill in the bushes Smoking another cigarette And Jack’s inside a child’s balloon Trying hard to forget Mrs. Horner nearly dropped her pies When she saw the look in little Jack’s eyes His only thoughts were draped in gloom Far from the corner in the middle of the room Momma ran out of plums again yesterday afternoon There’s not much you can do or say inside a child’s balloon Jack looked up at the candlestick It was ten feet high and two feet thick To the panel of judges he slowly turned Every one of you wants to see me burned So he built a tomb back in his room And started smoking cigarettes He’s stuck inside a child’s balloon Trying hard to forget x

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