Name: Jack B Nimble (Ode 2 Jack)
Duration: P00H04M15S
Description: 2nd song dedicated to that great man Jack Kerouac, the first on the album The Backpacker

Jack B Nimble (Ode 2 Jack)

from The Muse by Paddy Crunden

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2nd song dedicated to that great man Jack Kerouac, the first on the album The Backpacker

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There's beauty in the sad old words
That lay on pages seldom heard
That fall like rain on parchment earth
They wait a while and roll in balls of dust

And when you wrote your mind was free
You were at last who you you were meant to be
Rejecting rules and sobriety
Free from canary cages spawning rust

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack be nimble Jack be quick

And everyone that walks alone were woken by those words you done
Inspired by freedom that they brung
They found in you a soulmate to believe
Yeah every man a rolling stone and those without a house or home
Were changed by magic in your tome
No longer bums but angels wandering free

Jack be nimble ....

Jack the world is waiting out
Jack the world sure needs you now
Jack it was the saddest thing
When you took off on angels wings
And moved on up into another world

Where every man and child it seems
Would pay a penny for your dreams
To break the chains that living means
And for a while their minds to wander free

Jack be nimble ...

There's beauty in the sad old words ...

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from The Muse, released March 24, 2017

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