We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Halfway To NowHere

by Jack McTamney

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7 USD  or more

     

1.
2.
Jeanette 04:19
jeanette verse: if i saw you on the street i'd bow down at your feet and hope you wouldn't look the other way i've spent a life or two just trying to get to you now i'm here and i don't know what to say chorus: oh jeanette my world revolves around you and jeanette no one can love you like i do if what you see is what you get then all i see is you, jeanette verse: if i were fred astaire i'd dance right up your stairs with flowers and a smile to make you swoon and if i were ol' bing beneath your window i would sing and revive you with kiss after i croon chorus: oh jeanette my world revolves around you and jeanette no one can love you like i do if what you see is what you get then all i see is you, jeanette bridge: oh jeanette i see the picture that you don't think i see i know that you're not perfect but you're perfect for me verse: i'd fight a thousand men to do this all again and every punch would feel just like a kiss i'd take it on the chin and grin a toothless grin if i knew you felt about me just like this chorus: oh jeanette my world revolves around you and jeanette no one can love you like i do if what you see is what you get then all i see is you, jeanette copyright jack mctamney
3.
beautiful enemy verse: where am i must've dozed for a minute it's my life and i dreamed you were in it but you disappeared when the doctor slapped me awake in my brain we were laughing and drinking and you always knew what i was thinking but the champagne glasses we were clinking started to break chorus: and sometimes you don't see what you get and you never get just what you see but i don't think i ever have met such a beautiful enemy verse: came an angel who was shining like crystal whose feathered wings revealed a pistol that was loaded and cocked and aimed right at my head we all know love's a dangerous game but a moth can't resist a flame `cuz without the fire of love he's better off dead chorus: and sometimes you don't see what you get and you never get just what you see but i don't think i ever have met such a beautiful enemy bridge: feels more like espionage than it does like romance and when we make love we do the scorpion dance and i get stung verse: there it is you can take it or leave it `cuz the truth don't wait for someone to believe it it just slaps you in the face and keeps moving on it keeps moving on chorus: and sometimes you don't see what you get and you never get just what you see and i don't think i ever have met such a beautiful enemy copyright jackmctamney
4.
February's Child Verse: Silent snow secret snow Is melting in my room But I'm still alive The indoor shag begins to grow The floral wall's in bloom Now you've arrived Chorus: You're the reason that I live There is nothing I can give February's child You're the one who holds the key You are everything to me February's child Verse: Starry night crescent moon Reflect the golden street When you appear March April May and June Surrender at your feet With grateful tears Chorus: You're the reason that I live There is nothing I can give February's child You're the one who holds the key You are everything to me February's child Bridge: You are beautiful to me And to all with eyes to see I wish it could be Forever February Verse: Lonely heart empty glass The water turns to wine An ocean with no shore I kiss the ground where you pass You say that you are mine But it's I who am yours Chorus: You're the reason that I live There is nothing I can give February's child You're the one who holds the key You are everything to me February's child... - copyright Jack McTamney
5.
Inches 05:15
inches verse: they say the night time is the right time to be with the one you love come day break i'm still awake and it's you that i'm thinking of chorus: cuz, i'm inches from you inches from you no matter how far you are baby my heart is inches from you verse: can you feel me when you're sleeping cuz, i'm laying right next to you can you see me when you're dreaming cuz, i'm dreaming about you, too can you hear me in the shadows just outside your door baby i can see for miles and feel for even miles more chorus: cuz, i'm inches from you inches from you no matter how far you go i want you to know that i'm inches from you verse: if you can pass away from frustration baby this is the end of my life and it's my own hesitation that just keeps twisting the knife you can't cut love, cut love in half or you'll be left with none you can't build two houses when you've got enough bricks for one chorus: cuz, i'm inches from you inches from you no matter how far you are baby my heart no matter how close you are i'm keeping my heart no matter how far you go i want you to know that i'm inches from you i'm inches from you copyright jack mctamney
6.
Utah 03:54
Utah I learned she learned How it feels to be burned I know she knows How cold the wind that blows So right so wrong So hard to say so long It's true it's not So few to have a lot If I asked you to be my religion Would it be too much for you If I asked you to be my religion Would you forgive the things I do I feel she feels Who knows what's really real I fall she falls Behind these lonely walls Too soon too late You can't anticipate But now and then You have to start over again If I asked you to be my religion Would you send me on my way If I asked you to be my religion Would you answer when I pray I am she is It's always hit or miss I cry she cries This never ever dies I'm gone she's gone This just goes on and on and on I wait she wait No matter how long it takes If I asked you to be my religion Would you send me straight to hell If I asked you to be my religion Would you love me for myself copyright, jack mctamney
7.
Mr. Ford 05:04
well, i've come all the way from new mexico cuz, i couldn't make my rent that was almost twelve months ago and i'm still outside of your fence well, i've got six kids that i've got to feed and a wife i've left far behind and i'll prove that i am the man that you need if you'll give me one shot on your line chorus: please, mr.ford won't you give me a chance and i'll earn every cent of my pay heaven awaits me in your auto plant and i'm worth the four dollars a day verse: when i met my wife she was so beautiful so young so fair and so bold now she's skin and bone and dressed in rags and the hard labor's taken it's toll now i've heard some talk being bandied around how you don't treat your workers fair but i won't have none of `em putting you down cuz, you're my only prayer chorus: please, mr.ford won't you give me a chance and i'll earn every cent of my pay heaven awaits me in your auto plant and i'm worth the four dollars a day verse: so many nights i've laid by this fence so much pain i have seen why some haven't any while some have it all well it makes no sense to me chorus: please, mr.ford won't you give me a chance and i'll earn every cent of my pay heaven awaits me in your auto plant and i'm worth the four dollars a day yes i'm worth four dollars a day - copyright , jack mctamney
8.
The Narrow Lane verse: Spun my body `round to see the silence that was calling me Oh, it's a narrow lane What were those words you said that play like music in my head Oh, it's a narrow lane chorus: I've wandered down every street in this town every alley and highway and still haven't found the narrow lane that leads to you It's a narrow lane that leads to you verse: What planet am i on Can you hear me, Major Tom Oh, it's a narrow lane As soon as I gain control I stumble into every hole Oh. it's a narrow lane chorus: The creatures I pass look just like me My vision is sharp but still I don't see the narrow lane that leads to you It's a narrow lane that leads to you bridge: Don't know if I've got what it takes to get started This is no place for the weak and feint-hearted Back where we parted you must have left me a clue verse: My ego's overblown You know it makes me feel alone Oh, it's a narrow lane And I can't even see the air that's breathing me Oh,it's a narrow lane chorus: Force-fed injected infected with fear I can travel the world and never get here to the narrow lane that leads to you It's a narrow lane that leads to you copyright Jack McTamney
9.
a boy and his dog my dog, Duke, never liked me too much oh he'd growl and he'd snarl at one wayward touch but I loved that ol' boy right up to the end 'cause my dog, Duke, was my best friend and my dog, Duke, wasn't too proud to beg he was thirty pounds over weight with one bad leg just a bastard of some beagle and a basset hound but my dog, Duke, was the best dog around well, I've had other dogs and I've got to say they were all fine people in their own way everyone's different but there's a curse that your heart never opens like it does for the first and my dog, Duke wasn't too proud to beg he was thirty pounds over weight with one bad leg just a bastard of some beagle and a basset hound but my dog, Duke, was the best dog around I know it seems absurd that I should talk about it now so many years have passed since then but sometimes when I sleep I dream about us there walking down the railroad tracks again walking down the railroad tracks again well, people come and people go some hurry past quickly and some drift by slow but one thing's clear through the haze of the fog that there's no greater love than a boy and his dog my dog, Duke, wasn't too proud to beg he was thirty pounds overweight with one bad leg just a bastard of some beagle and a basset hound but my dog, Duke, was the best dog, yeah my dog, Duke, was the best dog, yeah my dog, Duke, was the best dog around copyright jackmctamney
10.
streets of gold we climbed on board with the clothes we were wearing pushing and shoving and lead by the blind the tensions were high as we huddled together the promise of a dream still burning in our minds chorus: and when our ship reached the shore we were hungry and poor but our hearts burned like fire in the cold and we all left our homes such a long time ago to walk the streets of gold verse: we begged for our jobs and worked hard for our families suffered the abuse the insults and the shame defended ourselves and defended our children taught them to be proud of their God and their names chorus: and when our ship reached the shore we were hungry and poor but our hearts burned like fire in the cold and we all left our homes such a long time ago to walk the streets of gold bridge: we stormed o'er the sand and forged through the jungles fought in the snow and died on the sea we went hand to hand and brother to brother to live like slaves in the land of the free chorus: and when our ship reached the shore we were hungry and poor but our hearts burned like fire in the cold and we all left our homes such a long time ago to walk the streets of gold verse: family and friends the good times and bad times most i've forgotten now that i'm old... but sometimes at night when i look out my window when the moon is shining bright the streets turn to gold copyright , jack mctamney
11.
Lyrics One Chord Song I'm sick and tired of being lonely My knees are shot from falling down The sidewalk's giving way below me I guess I'm going under ground Everything Means nothing And I sing Ah ... A one chord song Ah ... A one chord song I needed food you gave me hunger I needed you and I got words Where were you when I stormed the bunker In a funkhole feeding birds Everywhere You're not there Here's my prayer Ah ... A one chord song Ah ... A one chord song Thoughts buzz by like mad mosquitos Distracting me from the truth And all my feelings have been vetoed Yanked just like a rotten tooth Am I clear Are you near Can you hear Ah ... A one chord song Ah ... A one chord song Ah ... copyright, jack mctamney
12.
Hell 04:38
hell verse: the ocean of my slumber becomes a stormy sea suddenly the gates of hell open just for me and the devil is behind the bar laying whiskey down so i put up and buy the tortured souls a round chorus: now we sing the songs that dead men sing and rattle all the bones `cuz we'd rather be in hell together than heaven all alone verse: murderers and cutthroats check their weapons at the door through the entrance in the back come the jezebels and whores the suicides are in the bathroom slicing up their hands the overdoses are playing in the band chorus: now we sing the songs that dead men sing and rattle all the bones `cuz we'd rather be in hell together than heaven all alone verse: now there's billy boy from down the street i'd wondered where he went after he chopped his mother up and stuffed her down a vent and then there's frank and lonesome johnny and butcher bob as well and a hundred other losers that i said i'd see in hell chorus: now we sing the songs that dead men sing and rattle all the bones `cuz we'd rather be in hell together than heaven all alone - copyright, jack mctamney

about

Alternative Americana Rock with strong songs, and acoustic flourishes

credits

released February 28, 2021

jim fogarty- lead guitar, mandolin, accordion,
six-string bass, percussion

jack mctamney - vocals, 6 & 12 string guitar

walt rich - bass & percussion

roger cox - drums & percussion


troop reinforcements:

john mcpeak - harmonica

lindsay gilmour - harmony vocals on "into the river" & "a boy and his dog" fran mctamney - harmony vocals on "streets of gold" drunken rabble on "hell" cohocksink glee club featuring:

diane berg theresa delucca dylan mctamney elizabeth mctamney fran mctamney joe mctamney kim mctamney mary mctamney shane mctamney walt roecker
kat westphal

background vocals on "track 13" plastic collins choir

featuring: frank 'sonny' shields

joe 'kirk' mctamney

joe 'pop' mctamney 'big' fran shields

avatar - meher baba

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Jack McTamney Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

contact / help

Contact Jack McTamney

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Jack McTamney, you may also like: