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Originally released on the 2006 album 'Seaside Songs & Smalltown Stories' this song was a live favourite for a couple of years with it's 'Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1989' refrain.

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Meet me down at the Rose & Crown on friday night at 8
I'll drop 2 quid in the jukebox there just like I did back in the day
When 65 was Dylan; and 21 was Johnny Cash
Oh and 17 was Springsteen...or was it maybe "White Man" by The Clash?
Ah well it's probably DJ no-one now with his utter lack of soul
And I'll just sit there mumbling something about the death of rock and roll

Let's forget we ever knew each other
And get out of this town
Instead it's friday night at 8o'clock
Down at the Rose & Crown

Meet me down at the Rose & Crown on friday night at 8
The college kids meet up there now, I bet I'll watch them while I wait
The way they walk, the way they talk you'd think they owned the world
And I know that I'm gonna wanna punch the boys and get off with all the girls
Ah, but they're flesh and blood reminders that you and me, we've had our time
And so tonight we're gonna party like it's 1989

Meet me down at the Rose & Crown on friday night at 8
I put your first 2 beers behind the bar I shoulda known that you'd be late
Some drunken guy just staggered in, I saw him glare at me and go
Like some leering, sneering version of a face I used to know
Ah, but that look he gave I recognise..both mad and sad..yet neither
Just some crumb of bitter comfort knowing that I'd come to nothing either

Meet me down at the Rose & Crown on friday night at 8
I guess it's near last orders now and I'm still waiting here my mate
There's 2 young girls sat giggling there while I admire them from afar
Because I know they're only laughing at that sad-sack by the bar
Ah, but the thing about getting older is you forget how to have fun
Tonight I've spent the last 3 hours sat here wishing I was young

Let's forget we ever knew each other
And get out of this town
Instead it's friday night at 8o'clock
Down at the Rose & Crown

WORDS AND MUSIC
BY
JOE SOLO

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from An Exile in Fairyland: Early Tracks 2004​-​2007, track released January 1, 2007
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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK

Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

He is not an artist you forget in a hurry. ... more

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