One Final Serenade: Songs of Billy Joel
 Download "Captain Jack"
Saturday night, and you're still hangin' around Captain Jack
(Recorded July 1980, Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, Piano Man) 1971 and so many of my friends shoveled under the Long Island dirt. The miracle of modern chemistry killed them if Vietnam didn't. Woodstock was a nightmare, I was there. Rain, mud, b.o., and acid. You didn't miss anything. (From Songs In Attic liner notes)
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Saturday night, and you're still hangin' around
Tired of living in your one-horse town You'd like to find a little hole in the ground For a while So you go to the Village in your tie-dye jeans And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens It's like some pornographic magazine And you smile. But Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Captain Jack will get you by tonight Just a little push, and you'll be smilin' Your sister's gone out, she's on a date You just sit at home and masturbate Your phone is gonna ring soon but you just can't wait For that call So you stand on the corner in your new English clothes And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes Ah but still your finger's gonna pick your nose After all But Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Captain Jack will get you by tonight Just a little push, and you'll be smilin' So you decide to take a holiday You got your tape deck and your brand new Chevrolet Ah, but there ain't no place to go anyway And what for? And you got everything, ah but nothing's cool They just found your father in the swimming pool And you guess you won't be going back to school Anymore But Captain Jack can get you high tonight And take you to your special island Oh Captain Jack you can rely tonight Just a little push, and you'll be smilin' So you play your albums, and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot But still you're achin' for the things you haven't got What went wrong? If you can't understand why your world is so dead Why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well you're 21 and still your mother makes your bed And that's too long But Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Ah, Captain Jack will get you by tonight Just a little push, and you'll be smilin' Oh, Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Ah, Captain Jack could make you die tonight Just a little push, and you'll be smilin' |
