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(Just A) German Girl

from Bremen by Roy Smiles

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Written & performed by Roy Smiles. Keyboards & produced by Simon Walker, at Loophole Studios. For Vera Tomschak,

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(Just A) German Girl

Lonely old London, cold dirty town
I just wish that she was still around (that she was still around)
Dirty old pavements, crowded old streets
My heart’s been lost to this city’s beat (to this city’s beat).

A city of strangers, caught in the rain
I go to work and then to work again (then to work again)
Lost to the night-time, without the girl
She was my heart, my soul & my whole damn world (my whole damn world).

Chorus
She was just a German girl from down Aachen way
But I always knew she would fly away
She was just a German girl from down Aachen way
But I’m still glad she passed my way.

Shabby old sunshine, pale shabby moon
Seems like the mornings always comes too soon (always come too soon)
Millions of people: rat race nine ‘til five
But I know that somehow I will survive (somehow I will survive).

Chorus

I ride empty buses, I ride crowded trains
Dreaming of dreams that were all in vain (that were all in vain)
I walk by the river, retrace me and you
Past all the places that we ever knew (that we ever knew).

(Instrumental)

Chorus

So goodbye, my baby, as you fly the skies
Back to the land of a thousand sighs (of a thousand sighs)
Thanks for the good times & loving me
You know that your love will always stay with me (always stay with me).

Chorus

But I’m so glad she came my way
Lord, I’m so glad she came my way
Lord, I’m so glad, I'm so glad, I'm so glad she came my way.

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from Bremen, released June 1, 2015

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk.
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