Dedicated to all key workers of whom I am not one x.
©Jim Pearson 2020

The best education 
Put you on your feet
And with the right connections 
You took an empty seat

A nanny for your children
A chauffeur driven car
But in a global crises
We know who the heroes are

Who’s gonna teach our kids?
Who’s gonna make us well?
Who’s gonna help the old?
Who’s gonna stack our shelves?

You took a brave decision 
To bet against the grain
A pin point incision 
Profit from other’s pain

You made a tidy killing 
While others fought the war
But come the revolution 
We know who the heroes are 

Who’s gonna teach our kids?
Who’s gonna make us well?
Who’s gonna help the old?
Who’s gonna stack our shelves?

Who’s gonna drive the vans?
Who’s gonna pick our crops?
Who’s gonna keep the peace?
Who’s gonna serve in shops?

When the war is won
Heroes go unsung
Normal life returns
Lessons never learned

Shelf Stacker

Winner of 2024 Liverpool Songwriting Competition with "The Boy With the Red Hat", taken from "Death to Mortality".

People have said that Jim plays guitar like a drummer. He is. In the mid eighties, he toured the Far East, Europe and Tyneside with near-legendary Geordie club band Foxy, before putting down his sticks, opting for a life of obscurity as graphic designer, husband and dad.

In his late thirties with a mid-life-crises looming, he started writing and recording his songs, self-releasing “Some Songs by Jim Pearson” in his fortieth year.

Suddenly, nothing happened, so he continued, and gradually accumulated a niche following of several well-intentioned virtual people, each possessing an uncanny appreciation of music and lyrics, as well as managing to get a handful of plays on BBC 6 music.

Jim is also singer, guitarist, songwriter with niche NW-UK band Scaredycats, who's debut album "Dumb Animals" was pronounced album of the year by Liverpool Sound and Vision in 2017.

Last year, he was a key collaborator and producer with international lockdown supergroup "Nothing On TV".

According to Jim... "You might not agree, but I think I’m getting better at this. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never get the global recognition I so clearly deserve, and honestly, I am all the happier for it."

BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson says... “This is the astonishingly prolific Merseyside songwriter Jim Pearson… you never can be sure what kind of project Jim will come up with next, but you can always be sure it’s gonna be pretty darn good...” (The Tom Robinson Show, January 25th 2020)

Songwriter from Northern England
https://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5R96vnb0ABdaZRMLG4XUNf

Scaredycats
https://scaredycatsuk.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/02W2iVwO5b3EIjzspgmS1N

Nothing On TV
https://nothingontv.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/07ADDEerdBir7xBgvdYyeo?si=k65U2tPkQuqbd1WFuPQOyA