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Jackie Sat on the Roof

Words and music by Steve Goodman

Jackie sat on the roof tonight
Beneath the rain.
He didn't hear his mother call out to him,
He didn't hear another heart beating.
He didn't see his friends walking by...
Do you know what I mean?

As the raindrops were falling on the asphalt,
And the neighbors were calling to the TV,
Jackie sat on the roof tonight
And racked his brain:
Trying to find a hidden rhyme,
Or an elusive lyric unsung;
Trying to make some sense of his world
Before it comes undone...

I wasn't doing anything at all last night
Except thinking and feeling and watching the raindrops fall
And wishing that for once the words would come
Without any work at all.

and Jackie says:

My songs come like raindrops.
Sometimes they fall,
Sometimes they stall,
Sometimes they drizzle and stop, and that's all.
And that's all.

Jackie sat on the roof tonight
Beneath the rain.
He didn't hear his mother call out to him,
He didn't hear another heart beating.
He didn't see his friends walking by...
Do you know what I mean?

Jackie come in out of the rain. What are you doing out there, Jackie? Your hair's gettin' all wet. You look like a drowned rat.

Lyrics Home | Don't Feed the Goat | He Never Knew
Jackie Sat on the Roof | Just Another Day | Take the Rain
Laughing at the Blue Sky | Pot of Gold
She Can Stay My Home | Waiting to Hear

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