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Christopher Roberts

by John Jenkins

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John will be releasing the follow up to the critically acclaimed “Fretsore Record” solo album “If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love”, with a new solo album due out on 7th July 2023 called “Tuebrook”.

“Christopher Roberts” is the second release from this al-bum and the follow up to the recently released song “Shadows.”

Recorded at Crosstown Studios in Liverpool with Jon Lawton and Pippa Murdie.

“This is an autobiographical song.
When I was in junior school, Christopher Roberts was a school class friend I had.
Being a catholic school and doing our 11 plus exam
Everyone in our class ended up going to different senior schools.
I never saw him again once we moved on and I often wonder how life treated him, did he marry, has he a fam-ily?
I sometimes think that as over 50 years have passed, I could be sitting facing him in a pub or next to him at a bus stop and be totally unaware it is him.”


I was tempted to call my new album “63” after my age like Adele does with her albums but I bottled it out
because it looked a bit naff on the cover plus I’d be questioned where the other 62 albums where in my
catalogue”

Incidentally the father and child recordings at the be-ginning of the song talking about school is actually me and my Dad from about 1964.


“Christopher Roberts”
Release date of May 5th 2023 from all dig-ital platforms and Bandcamp and available now from John’s Website and Bandcamp

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Christopher Roberts
We were so young,
A little wet behind the ears
Laughing crying,
Whatever happened to all those years?

A photograph,
A Memory
Kids in a schoolyard
Dirty faces sore knees

And did you ever imagine
How life would turn out to be?
All of those dreams you hoped for
Did they become a reality?

We were stupid
Exchanging comics
Marvel, and DC
Bursting tar bubbles
Scrubbing our hands with margarine

Painted my face the brightest blue
Christopher Roberts I often wonder what happened to you

And did you ever imagine you’d live to be 63?
Christopher Roberts,
Where can you be?


We were so young,
A little wet behind the ears

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released April 9, 2023

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John Jenkins Liverpool, UK

John Jenkins is carving out a path for himself as a renowned singer/songwriter on the UK folk, country, and Americana scene. Jenkins is a master of melody, understated lyrics, and deft chord changes, while his songs have been hailed wherever music is written about. ... more

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