Jackie's House

(chapin hartford)

I´d put a liittle love note in a bottle throw it off the bay street
Bridge
Watch it glide along the willows
I´d run along the bank with the other kids
If that bottle didn´t hang up on the stones
It would ride that river with a will of its own
It´d go underground and come up in the crecek behind

Jackie´s house, jackie´s house
I´d hang around until jackie came out
My hands would shake my heart would ache
I didn´t know what is was but i first felt love
Behind jackie´s house

You could hear a pin drop in that parlor it was horsechair chairs and old
Lace
Jackie sat beside me like a statue
The other kids were out playing kids´games
Those funny feelings strage and unknown
They would rise like the river with a will of their own
With the risk i took when i first stole a look into

Jackie´s eyes, jackie´s eyes
I saw forever like an endless sky
My hands would shake my heart would ache
I didn´t know what is was but i first saw love
Behind jackie´s eyes

After all this time jackie´s heart´s still mine
And the love keeps on flowing behind jackie´s house, oh ...
Now our little ones they laugh and run down by the creek in the summer
Sun
Jackie´s and me and the years agree
We know what it is, it´s love and it lives here
In jackie´s house oh and in jackie´s eyes
Oh in jackie´s heart and mine