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Good Reason

by Jörg Erb

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Tribute to Kieran Halpin (1955 - 2020)
I fell in love with the song after I met Chris Jones in 1982 in a club called "Sandsturm" in Frankfurt, where Chris played all the songs of his then new album "No Looking Back". I bought the record from Chris Jones and Bernhard Dill taught me later how to play it. I probably played it more than several hundred times since then. But I never could find a version of "Good Reason" by Kieran Halpin himself. Today you hardly will find any version of this song if you search through the internet. So I decided to record it - to preserve it. I sang and played it the way I remebered it. And I found out that I got it wrong - or maybe Chris Jones changed the lyrics I had learned? At least I found the lyrics on Kieran's website.
Farewell Kieran. And thank you for this great song that I will never forget.

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Good Reason

I’m now about to take my leave again
I bought my ticket picked my train
Another week gone by and I’m learning all the time
I thank the lord I’ve got good reason

God bless the people who bore me
God bless the town that watched me grow
God forgive my cursing you for not being at my side
It’s not your fault I know I know
It’s not your fault I know I know
It’s not your fault I know I know

My friend Bill and I we talk an awful lot
It does us good I think to talk
We lack a lot and yet we’ve got more than we need
We thank the lord we’ve got good reason

God bless the people who bore me
God bless the town that watched me grow
God forgive my cursing you for not being at my side
It’s not your fault I know I know
It’s not your fault I know I know
It’s not your fault I know I know

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released October 23, 2020
words & music: Kieran Halpin

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Jörg Erb Hamburg, Germany

Worte, Bilder Töne - ohne ging's nie, höchstens schief. * 1960 in Düsseldorf,
seit 2009 in Hamburg, dazwischen liegen viele Umzüge und nicht ganz so viele Berufe. Songs & Lieder sind mir irgendwann zu einer Art innerer Heimat geworden.

2006 CD „Zwölf“

2010 CD „Seltene Gäste – live“
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