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Tears of a Jonah (song)

Am I a jinx
Or is it coincidence
Am I a Jonah
Or was it regardless
Was it just pressure
Or was it my Karma?
I'd really like to know
If it was me.

Chorus:

But I loved him like a father
But he didn't really know
If only he were here today
There's so much I could show
It's only after he is gone
That I reveal my feelings
Please forgive me
I felt so foolish
But I loved you like a father
Like a father

Who could think
A book of poems could be
So harmful when read by me
Who could think
|That he could do it
Just sitting there
Behind the bonnet
How could he
Relax to deadly fumes
I wish I knew...
While I discarded
The book to disuse.

[chorus]

Everybody thought
"Just a silly old man,"
But I loved him as a father
"What a sweet old man
But how old fashioned."
Abusers of the tears of a Jonah.

[chorus]

But I could not shed a tear
Until now
Could not shed a tear
Until now
Kept it from my mind
Until now
Kept it from myself
Until now

[chorus]

Oh I loved him like a father
Yes I loved him like a father...

- Simon Huggins, 27th October 1986