Chords for Southend Rock Luminaries talk about Mickey Jupp

Most musicians in Southend would agree that if there was any justice in the world,
Mickey Jupp would be a lot more famous than he is today.
As a songwriter and singer, he's influenced [B] Southend rock far more than anyone. _
_ [A] _ [B] _ _ I heard my mama and papa [A] talking, [B] I had some words to say,
I didn't see it get out, I said I'm [E] leaving [B] anyway.
_ [Bm] Juppie was the one that we always held in very high regard,
because he always played rock and roll.
_ [B] He's a brilliant songwriter, he's written some [E] fabulous songs.
Jupp's probably the most original character of the whole lot.
[B] Mickey Jupp is [Bb] one of [B] those people that's always prefixed [Gb] with the legendary.
Really, Mickey Jupp [E] _ is uniquely [B] a great writer, Mickey [Bb] Jupp.
[B] _ He'd be the last to admit it, that without Mickey Jupp,
this story would be a very different one.
I like to write songs.
_ [Ab] _
Growing up from playing with [E] model trains, I write songs now as a hobby.
Over the years, I've been lucky [Cm] enough to have made a scratch of living at it.
_ [E] Little bit of success here and there, [F] nothing drastic.
_ [G] But I find that the best songs are written [C]
with [G] me in mind.
Pour the rain on your finger, _ _ [B] smile and laugh [Am] out at me.
[C] _ [G] And I knew I'd [Dm] lost again, [F] _ [C] all the rain.
_ _ [G] _
_ Say hello, _ but don't linger.
_ _ _ [C] Jupp's strengths are twofold.
As I say, a [G] great writer and also a great voice, [C] terrific, terrific voice.
And as he gets older, it [G] just gets better and better and better.
And for [Dm] somebody to [G] be almost burdened with being [C] that good a singer and that good a songwriter,
[Am] it _ most [E] people, it would be too much for them.
Mickey Jupp [D] _ left the South End scene in the mid to late 60s,
came back around about [Bb] 1969 to 70 [Ab] with a new group called [C] Legend.
Most [G] of the bands that were to follow in the few years to follow [Bb] were
[D] all influenced by an album popularly known as the Red Booch album.
Didn't really have a [G] title, but it was by Legend and every track on it was a winner.
He came out of all that influenced from the rhythm and blues, [Eb] the rock and roll sort of era.
And he's one of the few people today who can write [N] songs that fit those kind of artists.
So you see, [Gb] he's like, that's why Ricky Nielsen recorded his songs.
That's why the Judds are [G] recording his songs,
because they can relate [Gb] to what he was doing.
And yet he heard that original music in South End.
Chickens in the driveway, roses round the door,
curtains in the window, carpets on the floor.
[B] Well, that's all very well, _ but it's [Gb] not what I want. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] Living without you.
Sometimes they just, _ other times you [C] rack in your brains for a day because you've got
[C] something to say and [N] you've got two lines to say it in [C] and it's got a link up with
what's gone before and what's coming afterwards.
And you've just got two lines to [G] maybe turn the plot around.
This is the [D] punchline or that is hard work.
But I get to the stage now, I think it'll come, it'll come.
I'll go and do something else.
[Dm] It'll come.
You mull it over, you mull it [C] over, you go and play the piano.
Play [B] it in a different feel, all sorts of things.
It [Cm] comes and when it does come, [Db] you go, [B] I gotcha.
Next.
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