Name: Ronnie's Song
Duration: P00H06M01S
Description: Originally recorded on The Fragile (2012)

Ronnie's Song

from Live at St George's by O'Hooley & Tidow

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Originally recorded on The Fragile (2012)

lyrics

I saw him on the front row, he always sat there alone
Ronnie was a scarecrow, down at heel, boho
Aficionado of anything Broadway
Bernstein and Sondheim kept loneliness at bay

Stumbling through the town with coins in hand
To bank them for a conversation
Cashier lifts her eyes to heaven
Ronnie had low expectations

A person is a person
It makes no odds to me
A person is a person
Just like you and me

Derelict, frozen and sleeping under filth
Wounded, feral but strangely seraphic
Walls thronged with stars of the Music Hall
Though the person that saved him
An ordinary girl

Once a little boy, a mother’s son
Light on his feet, his father told him
‘Don’t do things like that round here’
Filled with moral apprehension

Breaking of bread and drinking wine
For once he had a shared communion
Chose to spend her Christmas time
With someone viewed as barely human

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from Live at St George's, released September 14, 2020
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O'Hooley & Tidow Huddersfield, UK

ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE MCGARRIGLES

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Aug 27

Glaramara Hotel

Keswick, UK

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