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| The Beatles – Matchbox Lyrics
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Perkins wrote this from bits of various different songs from the turn of the century, some of them made popular in the Jug Band age. The “Will a matchbox hold my clothes” (btw hold not hole) is from a song about being piss poor and on the road, a topic much of the blues of that time talked about. “I'm an old poor boy/and I'm a long way from home/I've never been happy/cause everything I ever did was wrong” is IIRC from the same original. The bits about the woman are from a different song, which was about a woman who was a tease but then played hard. |
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| The Beatles – Matchbox Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It's not “matchbox hole my clothes”, it's “Will a matchbox hold my clothes”. As in, I don't own much. |
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