{"id":79708,"date":"2023-02-02T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=79708"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:24:58","slug":"gerry-raffertys-baker-street-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/02\/02\/gerry-raffertys-baker-street-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Rafferty\u2019s “Baker Street” lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first subscribed to Ted Gioia’s Honest Broker<\/em> substack, I figured I’d find one or two posts a month that I found interesting enough to share on the blog … I have to be careful not to link to several of his posts every week. He writes a lot about the music industry, so when this popped up in my inbox, I assumed it was Ted and got to the point of scheduling it before I realized it was Jon Miltimore<\/a> instead:<\/p>\n

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I was recently in a bar having dinner with a friend when Gerry Rafferty’s hit 1978 song “Baker Street” came on. When my friend mentioned that he loved the song, I agreed and noted the song’s powerful lyrics.<\/p>\n

“Really?” he responded. “I never paid much attention to the lyrics.”<\/p>\n

Most people, of course, remember \u201cBaker Street\u201d for its wailing saxophone, and my friend was no different. Nor was I, for many years. But at some point\u2014I don\u2019t know when\u2014I began to pay attention to the song\u2019s lyrics. They go like this:<\/p>\n