the website of Jon Shepherd...music teacher, arranger and composer
"I Was Meant for Better Things"
(8 bar intro...very refined and stately)
Clarence solo
I was meant for better things than this
I should be on a podium in the Tate.
Or living under spotlights
In a French Museum.
It only needed one small twist of fate.
I'd move within the circles
Of the rich and intellectual.
At all the latest premieres and shows.
But instead I'm stuck here
With a bunch of philistines.
Who wouldn't know culture
If it bit them on the nose!
ALL. Rock and Roll style. Faster
What's that you're saying there
You snobbish lump of clay
We're just as good as you
So get down
From your high horse, baby!
Just let your hair down
And have some fun!
Come down here...and relax
We're gonna get down
'Til the morning comes.
Pottery rock and roll dance break
Doo...wop wop
Doo...wop wop
Doo...wop wop
Doo...doo wop wop wop wop
Doo...wop wop
Doo...wop wop
Doo...wop wop
Doo...doo wop wop wop wop
Slowing down, Clarence solo
I was meant for better things than this
I should be on a podium in the Tate.
Or living under spotlights
In a French Museum.
It only needed one small twist of fate.