Shaking Skin House

(Partridge)

Jules Verne's Sketchbook cover

Recordings Art Lyrics Chords and Tablature

Recordings

1. Demo version.
   Released in November 1987 on the Jules Verne's Sketchbook cassette.
   Also released on the reissue of Skylarking on 14 October 2016 in the U.K.

   Andy: “Another half song plus blah blah blah mumbled lyric, proper words to be written at a later date. I thought the chords had a good idiot stomp. At one time this was a potential title for what became THE BIG EXPRESS.”

   Extended demo version.
   Released in September 2004 on Fuzzy Warbles Volume Six in the U.K.

   Andy: “Half born proto song, something for The Big Express. Sometimes I just blunder into a recording not knowing what it's about or where I'm going, returning to it later to pick over the wreckage for salvageable stuff. In this I found the idea for ‘Merely A Man’, so it wasn't a wasted exercise. Also considered using its full name, ‘Another Product From Shaking Skin House’, as the title for The Big Express. A shaking skin house being a person.”

Art

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Lyrics

Zap, pow pow zap
Zap, pap, pap, pap zap
Da da da da
Zap, pap pap zap
Pop, pop pop pop

Here's something coming
Maybe a song or two
Can't stop from strumming
Can you feel it too?

I'm merely a man and I want
Nothing but love from you
I'm merely a man and I want
Nothing more than to do
What I want in the songs
And the order
[make up gibber that ends in something rhyming with order]

It's another another product
From Shaking Skin House
Another product

Chords and Tablature

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