Goodbye Girl

Album: Cool For Cats (1979)
Charted: 63
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  • I met her in a poolroom
    Her name I didn't catch
    She looks like something special
    The kind who'd understand
    The room was almost spinning
    She pulled another smile
    She had the grace like pleasure
    She had a certain style

    Sunlight on the lino
    Woke me with a shake
    I looked around to find her but she'd gone
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl

    She took me to a motel
    A room on the second floor
    A kettle and two coffees
    A number on the door
    She said I hardly know you
    Agreed we kissed goodnight
    I knew that in the morning
    Somehow I'd wake to find

    Sunlight on the lino
    Wakening me with a shake
    I looked around to find her but she'd gone
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl

    I lost my silver bracelet
    My clubroom locker keys
    The money in the billfold
    It doesn't bother me
    My wife has moved to Boston
    So mud is not the word
    If you ever see her
    Say hello goodbye girl

    Sunlight on the lino
    Woke me with a shake
    I looked around to find her but she'd gone
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl
    Goodbye girl Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER HENRY DIFFORD, GLENN MARTIN TILBROOK
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Mark Miwurdz from Barnsley, South Yorks., U.k.If my old memory serves me correctly, the original U.K. version of "Goodbye Girl" had other words changed in the last verse. "The money in the fur coat" became "The money in the billfold" in the US version. Apparently the "fur coat" mentioned was the favoured outerwear of original keyboard player Jools Holland. The band and their then manager Miles Copeland (brother of Police drummer Stewart) used to rib Jools over his furry top coat. And Jools would usually have a stash of cash in the pockets of the coat. Hence the original lyric.
  • Moosehead from Sci think girl from mars by ash is the child of this song. love them both dearly
  • Druidus from UppsalaI just googled Goodbye Girl Muppet Show to see if anyone else had noticed the similarity and I'm happy to see that they had.
  • Seanny2 from New YorkWhy didn't they just say "my wife has moved to Jersey" which would have worked in the US and UK??
  • Richard Trepsas from San Diego, CaliforniaI love this song, I always have, ever since I heard it not in 1978 when it was released or maybe 79 in USA but about half a decade later. Great tune, love the melody and the vocal harmonies as well as the instrumentation. Thanks to the Internet, just now October 2, 2020, I got a hold of the actual lyrics. Actually just now I was watching a program on PBS, public broadcasting system called “A-to-Z: how writing changed the world”. Going back in time to Papyrus being used in ancient Rome, the narrator was describing a “lintel” which is an architectural feature around a doorway, I guess. This instantly brought to mind my decades of trying to understand the lyric “”the sun upon the lino”, I thought that was some kind of a window pane or other feature of a room. Only just now by looking it up and finding the lyrics that I understand that Lino means linoleum floor. Brilliant lyrics by Chris Difford!
  • Zabadak from London, EnglandThis was one of a short series of singles by the band named after films, including "Cool For Cats" and "Up The Junction".
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