RAGGED ROBIN BLUES © Christopher Jessop 2020 Dedicated to Mr Robin Black.
Composed while walking down to Marloes Sands, Sunday afternoon 21st June 2020
For years I’ve been playing lead guitar,
Strutting my rock ‘n’ roll stuff:
Top Dog on the stage just like Jimmy Page,
I could never get enough!
But now this pandemic has hit,
Has hit so hard, Kapow!
I used to be Rocking Robin,
But I’m Ragged Robin now.
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I’ve got the Ragged Robin Blues,
Utterly dishevelled from my head down to my shoes:
The Ragged Robin Blues –
Enough to make a lifetime pledger hit the heavy booze!
Not long after lockdown
I ran out of razor blades;
Now my chin looks like a gorse bush,
‘Cos I haven’t shaved in days.
Chorus
I tried to cut my own hair,
The top, and sides, and back –
I must have been mad: it looked so bad,
I’ve tried to glue it back!
Chorus
Never learned to sew a button,
Can’t even iron a shirt:
Now I look like Old Man Steptoe –
Guess you’d say that was just deserts!
Chorus
Well, I tried to do some laundry,
But didn’t know which button to press –
Now the kitchen is like a Florida swamp:
My God, it’s such a mess!
Chorus
So my Spandex days are over,
And you all know what this means:
When Covid is long behind us,
I’ll still be in ripped-arse jeans!
Chorus + Repeat chorus