#Up the Junction

[aneverydaything]

Day 2342, 20 November 2024

"I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham....."

Although strangely it did!

Squeeze at Cliffs Pavilion, Southend

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Squeeze

Up The Junction (1979)

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Suzy Kendall & Adrienne Posta on-set for the superb 1968 film "Up the Junction"🪴🍂🪴

Via I🖤Sixties Models/ Fashion! FB🍂

[guerrilla-operator]

Squeeze // Up The Junction

I worked all through the winter The weather brass and bitter I put away a tenner Each week to make her better And when the time was ready We had to sell the telly Late evenings by the fire With little kicks inside her

[fertileground]

up the junction, 1968 (dir. peter collinson)

[tadpolesonalgae]

Loved up the junction😭😭😭😭😭

Incredible 😭

Now I will sob in quiet

-🩰

Ahh thank you!! I’m happy you liked it!!

Though I’ll tell you—in my mind it did not have a happy ending, so you’re welcome for that 😔

(I hope you’re no longer sobbing 🫣😭🧡💛)

[shadowland]

Squeeze in Smash Hits (1979)

[cannedbluesblog]

Up the Junction poster and lobby cards (1968)

[bigbumder96]

anytime someone compares up the junction (squeeze) and thats entertainment (the jam) a part of me dies. theyre both godly songs😞

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: May 18, 1979

Lyrics:

I never thought it would happen

With me and the girl from Clapham

Out on the windy common

That night I ain't forgotten

When she dealt out the rations

With some or other passions

I said "you are a lady"

"Perhaps" she said. "I may be"

We moved in to a basement

With thoughts of our engagement

We stayed in by the telly

Although the room was smelly

We spent our time just kissing

The Railway Arms we're missing

But love had got us hooked up

And all our time it took up

I got a job with Stanley

He said I'd come in handy

And started me on Monday

So I had a bath on Sunday

I worked eleven hours

And bought the girl some flowers

She said she'd seen a doctor

And nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter

The weather brass and bitter

I put away a tenner

Each week to make her better

And when the time was ready

We had to sell the telly

Late evenings by the fire

With little kicks inside her

This morning at four fifty

I took her rather nifty

Down to an incubator

Where thirty minutes later

She gave birth to a daughter

Within a year a walker

She looked just like her mother

If there could be another

And now she's two years older

Her mother's with a soldier

She left me when my drinking

Became a proper stinging

The devil came and took me

From bar to street to bookie

No more nights by the telly

No more nights nappies smelling

Songwriter:

Alone here in the kitchen

I feel there's something missing

I'd beg for some forgiveness

But begging's not my business

And she won't write a letter

Although I always tell her

And so it's my assumption

I'm really up the junction

Christopher Henry Difford / Glenn Martin Tilbrook

SongFacts:

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Squeeze

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Smash Hits (June 14-27, 1979)

Squeeze - Up The Junction (lyrics)

[poprocklyrics]

Alone here in the kitchen I feel there's something missing I'd beg for some forgiveness But begging's not my business

Up the Junction, Squeeze

[art-is-kayos]

Checking up on his commission

[rexandbalances]

Squeeze - Up The Junction (With Lyrics)

There have been those who have said one of my favorite songs doesn’t have a chorus. It does. It’s the beginning of the song and the end of the song.

You get an entire story in 3 minutes here, and you get invested in it immediately. This is craft.