Bob's Yer Uncle by Ewan - Video

By hudsonmoon
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This was a song written by Ewan Laurie - otherwise known as just plain Ewan - to which I added a couple of chords. Hope you like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxyD2q9goz4
Uncle Bob played tea-chest bass,
in the Mile End Skiffle Band,
Mum said that he was dif-fer-ent
- I wouldn’t understand.
On my sister’s wedding day,
at the piss-up in the Duck,
he was holding Vernon’s hand
and many a tooth was sucked.
He bought a pint of rum-and-pep,
he did it for a dare;
he took one sip and poured the rest
on Aunty Peggy’s hair.
He moved away when I was ten,
to Brighton or the coast,
at the family gatherings
was when I missed him most.
He came back in ‘83
thin and joy-bereft:
his joker’s mouth was widow-thin
- he wasn’t the Bob who’d left.
He lived quite close on Crupper Road,
and drank indoors, alone,
I went a few times, took him rum,
or called him on the phone.
Bob died in 1996,
we burned him at the crem,
Peggy came to see him off,
‘Not bad for “one of them.”’
Photo credit: https://skylarkin.wordpress.com/2011/01/
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