Tuesday Girl

from Western Reserve by Howard Simon

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Tuesday Girl

I was singing in a practice room
In a high school overcrowded by the baby boom
A pretty brown-haired girl walked right in
With a book bag and a violin
She didn’t say a thing
Just started working on “The Rite of Spring”
After just one phrase I went crazy for that Tuesday girl

One week later it was just the same
She walked in and started playing, didn’t ask my name
I couldn’t sing so I took out my books
Faking reading, throwing sidelong looks
I was just sixteen
She was the greatest thing I’d ever seen
But I didn’t have a prayer of getting near that Tuesday girl

Other days I hardly saw her at all
No glance in a classroom, no nod in the hall
But I built a little world
Around that pretty, pretty Tuesday girl

As the weeks went by the ice began to crack
I’d slip out a smile; she’d slip one back
Then one Spring day all my patience paid
She looked straight at me as she played
And in that sweet, small moment of grace
There was a shy smile on her face
And I finally had a chance to dance with my Tuesday girl

Other days I hardly saw her at all
No glance in a classroom, no nod in the hall
But I built a little world
Around my pretty, pretty Tuesday girl

If you please
You could sail all the seven seas
And never find a pearl
That shines like my Tuesday girl

After that we had a lot of fun
A different kind of practice out in the sun
Taking walks in the forest preserve
Couple of kisses when I got up the nerve
And then her family moved away
I was so sad she couldn’t stay
To help me learn a little more about caring for a Tuesday girl

If you please
You could sail all the seven seas
And never find a pearl
That shines like my Tuesday girl

credits

from Western Reserve, released August 22, 2020
Howard Simon: acoustic guitar, vocal
Derek Bianchi: electric guitar, bass, drums, guitar synthesizer (organ)
Libby McLaren: backing vocals
Paul Weiss: acoustic guitar
Jaimie Bianchi: tambourine

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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