Emily Lyrics

My old friend how've you been

Would you care to let me in

How's that Dan-electro boy

How's your sister up in Troy

Does she still have scarlet lips

Lips that launched the thousand ships

Ships that sailed the endless sea

For the one called Emily

Summer 1958

And a bolt from heaven's gate

Had us shaking in our shoes

Fender Twin and Persian blues

Well we took those gifts and ran

Formed a band where no one sang

And a special gift for me

Was a girl called Emily

Surf guitar was at death's door

In the spring of sixty four

On a beach with cringing sands

Strangers laughed when we held hands

Hail the hunchback and his queen

It's not even Halloween

How she blushed and set me free

Fare thee well oh Emily

All those English blues rock bands

Flogging records to our fans

They know nothing of what's cool

And those clowns from Liverpool

I won't listen to their band

I just want to hold her hand