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Mr Jones, The Advertising Man

from The Song Fu Years by Joe Covenant

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My first ever run-in with Song Fu. A Holiday Challenge to write a song about a *new* Festive Figure...
Meet Mr Jones-The Advertising Man.

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LYRIC:

The autumn leaves were falling,
And a chill was in the air
The great pumpkin had left the patch,
That he’d found most sincere.
Now children all across the world
start waiting for the day
A jolly man bedecked in red,
Would set out on his sleigh

But long before that happens,
there is so much work to do
To keep the season living
in the hearts of me and you
(and its) Done by just one special guy
of whom it has been said,
If he didn’t do the things he does,
then Christmas would be dead.

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(Chorus)
Mr Jones the advertising man
In his Teflon coated trousers
Of a pinstripe suit of grey

Sells us what no other ad man can
Works flat out from mid-october
Doesn’t rest til Christmas day

When we’ve grown tired of Christmas
And forgotten what it means
He’ll remind us on our television screens.

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Now ‘Holiday’s are coming!’
as the folk at ‘Coke’ would tell us.
Their Christmas corporate presence
makes poor pepsico get jealous.
Their vision of dear Santa
with his beard and snow-white curls,
Is accepted universally,
it’s known throughout the world

But who’s ultimate make-over
is the image that we’ve seen?
Who dressed the old guy all in red
and dumped the verdant green?
Who put old Santa on the map,
with maximum allurement?
In this primary commercial period
of gift procurement?

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(Chorus)
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So when the true meaning of Christmas
doesn’t seem to make much sense
Keep faith in him, remembering,
it’s dollars and it’s cents!
Get on your knees and thank him,
lift your voices proud and stronger
And watch with tears of joy
as children’s Christmas lists get longer!

Sit back, relax and prove your love
for everyone to see
And show the world how much you care
by using Q-V-C !
We need our dear old Mr Jones
to walk us through the season
If not for him, we’d be buying,
these presents for no reason!!!

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(Chorus x 2 to end)
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(additional (unrecorded) verse…

Who made us buy our ipods
and who plugged Nintendo’s Wii
The great XBOX 360
and the blue-ray’d P-S-3
If the focus groups at Jones’
had not got their thinking caps on
We’d never heard the festive cries
of “Mommee, I want THAT one!”

But if you think the cries of
joy and happiness feel phoney
He’ll pull on you a 52 inch
plasma screen from Sony
When the day moves on to 26th,
you’re all done-in from buyin’
He can’t rest upon his laurels,
Easter’s now on his horizons!)

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from The Song Fu Years, released September 9, 2009
Everything - Joe 'Covenant' Lamb

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