Whisky & Water

from Back To My Place by Jim Danby

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Years ago I worked in a pub in Wales. There was an elderly lady who spent most lunchtimes and evenings in our bar, and she only ever drank whisky with a splash of water. I always wondered why she seemed to prefer our place to home.

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Egg and chips on the table
Glass of the cheapest wine to wash it down
Wash her down
Condensation-free windows
The heating broke
But her winter clothes keep her warm
And inside she's warm

Rides her ten-penny bicycle
Past the fields and farms
To break whisky and water
In the Old Bishop's Arms

Home is some kind of jail-house
Where the shadows point
And the memories can't leap the wall
To be gone once and for all
But her barman won't preach or question
And in her hand could be stranger
Friend or the crowd
Till the bell rings out loud

Rides her ten-penny bicycle
Past the fields and farms
To break whisky and water
In the Old Bishop's Arms

Sixty years and counting
No more urge to travel far
The short twice-daily trip needs no car
Some call it her religion
But when life has left its scar
It's just some folks need the church
And some the bar

And her barman won't preach or question
And in her hand could be stranger
Friend or the crowd
Till the bell
Till the bell
Rings out loud

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from Back To My Place, released October 7, 2020
© Jim Danby 2020

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Singer-songwriter, based near Hull.

Influences come from life, love and laughter - sometimes viewed from a jaunty angle.

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