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Her Coat And No Knickers

from More Late Night Tales by Fiachna O Braonain

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I was truly humbled to have been invited to participate in a celebration of Colin Vearncombe’s incredible body of work... and I chose to record my version of Her Coat And No Knickers... one of my favourite songs of his.. Colin generously invited me to use his studio in West Cork some years back but sadly we never got to meet.. so it’s a privilege to send this out to him as part of ‘Love, Colin’.... and I had several requests for it to be added to my Bandcamp.. so here it is.

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Her Coat And No Knickers

You told a few lies and they came back on you
So you told a hundred more until she came back to you
But she only stayed a while
Just long enough to say the kind of things left to be said
In the cold cold light of day…
And she smelled of Xmas trees, of coffee and vanilla
Calcutta after snowfall, she's no-one's stand in mother
But I drifted into her like I could run myself aground
And keep her smiling at the sight of the darkness spilling out

And I don't mind if you don't care about it
I'll get by without her arms around me
As long as I can sit on my own
In her coat and no knickers

I believe it doesn't matter So don't look at me that way
Like I should notice how you look at me that way
That's just the way you look when you look at me that way and I believe it
doesn't matter
At least not much anyway

And I don't mind …..

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I never dreamed I could be lost in a place I knew so well
But I was running on the spot in the darkness 'til I fell
And then pulling off my clothes I want to step out of my skin
And paint a tattoo on my heart shows an arrow pointing in

And I don't mind if you don't care about it
I'll get by without her arms around me……
As long as I can sit on my own
In her coat and no knickers

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from More Late Night Tales, released August 5, 2021
Vocals and Guitars: Fiachna O Braonain
Written by: Colin Vearncombe

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Fiachna O Braonain Dublin, Ireland

When Fiachna found himself holed up in Paris between 2006 and 2011, he recorded his first solo album Bougainvillea in a one- bedroom apartment near Montmartre… check out the gentle beauty of ‘Ghosts’ or ‘City Of Love’ and pour yourself something sweet for the sailor’s love lament of ‘Bottle Of Rum’. ... more

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