The Days Of Pearly Spencer By Thomascow

The Days Of Pearly Spencer

By Thomascow

Written and recorded by David McWilliams

 (4 July 1945 – 8 January 2002) was a Northern Irish singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his 1967 song "Days of Pearly Spencer". McWilliams was born in the Cregagh area of Belfast and moved to Ballymena at the age of three. He began playing guitar and writing songs in his early teens. After leaving Ballymena Technical College in 1963, he started an apprenticeship at the Shorts missile factory in Antrim, and also started a local dance band, the Coral Show band. He was a well-respected football player, and had a trial with Linfield as a goalkeeper.

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 DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER

Composer David McWilliams

	Am
A	tenement, a dirty street

	Em
Wa	lked and worn by shoeless feet

	Am
In s	ilence long and so complete

	C	G
Watched	by a shivering s	un

Old eyes in a small child's face

Watching as the shadows race

Through walls and cracks that leave no trace

And daylight's brightness shun

Chorus (w/filtered vocal):

	Dm	Em	Am
		The days of Pearly Sp	encer

	Dm	Em	Am
Ahh..	ahh	the race is almost	run

Verse 2:

Nose pressed hard on frosted glass

Gazing as the swollen mass

On concrete fields where grows no grass

Stumbles blindly on

Iron trees smother the air

But, withering, they stand and stare

Through eyes that neither know nor care

Where the grass has gone

(repeat chorus)

Verse 3:

Pearly, where's your milk-white skin

What's that stubble on your chin

It's buried in the rotgut gin

You've played and lost, not won

You played a house that can't be beat

Now look, your head's bowed in defeat

You walked too far along the street

Where only rats can run

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