STOWAWAY (aka Reggae Cowboy)

Unreleased

A cult favourite amongst older James fans and a particular favourite chant for requests, as can be heard on One Man Clapping, Stowaway featured only occassionally in the James set from 1985 (where it was in much heavier form, with mostly different lyrics and known as Reggae Cowboy) and 1988, but appeared in their Peel Session in 1987.

LYRICS (as performed on Peel Session 1987)

Please God help me

I'm all at sea

When your ship left

You forgot me

I heard my best friend

Say "who the hell are you?

Where are you going?

And what are you going to do?

Your clothes don't fit you

Your watch don't tell the time

I think you're dying

But you tell me you look fine"

Get out of my head

My bed's too small for more like me

If this is your house

How come my locks took all your keys

Oh I will sail away

Sail, sail, sail away

Please God help me

I'm all at sea

I can't go on

Through this den of thieves

I lost my keys

Think I lost them on the inside

I lost my house in the thunder and the landslide

I lost my friends when they saw me through my eyes

I lost myself in the number 9 disguise

Get out of my head

My bed's too small for more like me

If this is your house

How come your locks took all my keys

Oh I will sail away

Sail, sail, sail away

Sail away, sail away

Sail, sail away