SUMMER & JOE: Liverpool 1957

It's Saturday, July
village garden fete
a little stage
skiffle band playing
Paul is watching with a friend

The band is doing Be-bop-a-lula
John sings Come Go with Me
It's Liverpool 1957
John sings and
Paul listens
John’s singing

Then wandering round the fare
in the warm night air
backstage to meet the band
and now guitar in hand
Paul is showing that he can

Twenty Flight Rock, Long Tall Sally
He knows the chords and even words
It's Liverpool 1957
Paul plays and
John listens
Paul’s playing

Paul is fifteen
John already almost seventeen
but there's something in the way Paul plays
something in the air that day
St Peter's Church, summer, '57

There's something in the way Paul plays
something in the stars that day
Liverpool 1957

John sings and
Paul plays and
joins the band

Words&music: Jouni Kotkavuori