The Smiths ----- Shakespeare's Sister

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The Smiths ----- Shakespeare's Sister



On Mar 18, 1985, The Smiths released the single "Shakespeare's Sister".

Although “Shakespeare’s Sister” barely exceeded two minutes, it received airplay on John Peel’s Radio 1 show and found space in The Smiths’ live sets for the next couple of years. Yet its chart life was short, and it never brought the band a “Top of the Pops” invitation. Marr remarked that he wasn’t shocked by its moderate chart showing, saying, “It was a very arch record to release at that time. Quite audacious, a bit mad. That’s why I loved it.” Joyce later admitted The Smiths didn’t always pick obvious commercial material for singles, referencing how “How Soon Is Now?” was initially stashed away as a B-side. “The fact people said we were wrong only fired us up,” he remembered, underscoring the band’s determination to stand by their decisions, even if they confounded the mainstream.

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Young bones groan and the rocks below say
"Throw your skinny body down, son"
But I'm going to meet the one I love
So, please don't stand in my way
Because I'm going to meet the one I love
No, Mamma, let me go

Young bones groan and the rocks below say
"Throw your white body down"
But I'm going to meet the one I love
At last, at last, at last
I'm going to meet the one I love, la-de-da, la-de-da
No, Mamma, let me go

I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar
Then it meant that you were a protest singer
Oh, I can smile about it now but at the time, it was terrible
No, Mamma, let me go
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

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good old days of 1980's !