Cold aeroplanes, slow boats, warm trains

Remind me of Jack-A-Lynn.

Lush hotels and pretty girls

Won't share the misty mood I'm in.

Silly, sad, I've never had

To write this before.

Oh, Jack-A-Lynn.



Funny how long nights alone

And thoughts of Jack-A-Lynn.

When phantoms tread around my bed

To offer restless dreams they bring.



And it's just the time and place to find

A sad song to play

For Jack-A-Lynn.



Magpies that shriek, old boots that leak

Call me the Jack-A-Lynn.

Cold black cats in policeman's hats

Nosing where the mice have been.



And the lonely hours, forgiving now,

And I'm far, far from home.

A Jack-A-Lynn.

Jack-Jack-A-Lynn.