Taken from the Slowly slowly catchee monkey album

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/slowly-slowly-catchee-monkey/id441618704

http://folkwit.com/artists/snippet

http://johnnocasson.co.uk

Lyrics
Far too busy at work, forgetting to smile, so people think you’re moody
Putting on a front, when all you want to do, is lay down and sleep
I don’t need to try so hard to please everybody
I should take some time for myself and bring the goodness back

I just want to get my sparkle back while it’s still intact
I just want to get my sparkle again while it’s still obtainable

Always running for trains and chasing my tail and people think I’m relaxed
Always good for a laugh or am I fooling myself, that I think I’m entertaining
Sometimes I am, sometimes I’m poor, sometimes I need to be shown the door
Sometimes I’m warm, sometimes I’m not, sometimes I’m just impatient 

I just want to get my sparkle back while it’s still intact
I just want to get my sparkle again while there’s still a grain of hope

Baton down the hatches love, I’m letting go the tears
Hold my hand here comes the brighter years 

I just want to get my sparkle back while it’s still intact
I just want to get my sparkle again while it’s still obtainable.

Get my sparkle back

I'm Just an amateur noisemaker who enjoys playing and listening to all kinds of music. 

Comments & ideas for collaborations appreciated. 
Instruments: violin, mandoline, acoustic, bass and electric guitars, harmonica, tin whistle, darbuka, sansula, roland synthesizers. 
Recording with Cubase Elements 11 

Recommending these inspiring musicians: 

https://soundcloud.com/the-plugs ;  https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem ;  https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett ; 
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart ; 
https://soundcloud.com/julsy ; 
https://soundcloud.com/houckjt ; 
https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli .

In memory of PetACat who performed Cocktail Jazz, and Romantic Standards.  This was just a small selection of his musical talent.  He is now part of the spiritual universe making music with all his friends.  Enjoy his music!

Snippet is London reared/Colchester based songwriter, recording artist, Johnno Casson. 
English Fables Vol.1 Out Now - https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/english-fables-vol-1
http://linktr.ee/snippetcuts

The back story

For the last 16 years Johnno has been releasing independent music under his own name, as Snippet, Old Tramp and Walken400, creating a unique catalogue of recordings and performances, and having been named by Tom Robinson as the most played BBC Introducing artist ever on his BBC 6 Music show, Johnno has continued to release vibrant music with plenty of bounce to the ounce.

Former caretaker, London Underground railman and local council relationship manager Johnno Casson aka Snippet started out writing songs at 15 in his bedroom on a Hackney council estate with a tennis racket for a guitar and a soap-on-a-rope microphone.

Johnno played for Adrian Sherwood’s (On-USound) 5-a-side football team (silky smooth striker), gloriously beating The Sun newspaper’s team at a championship for charity at Arsenal’s stadium, and for the last 12 years he has been perfecting his coleslaw making skills, whilst getting M.E and becoming a well respected figurehead on the British D.I.Y./Wonky Pop scene.

Johnno also runs the award winning community group The Warm and Toasty Club, running special live events for the last 9 years www.facebook.com/thewarmandtoastyclub

I went where the instruments took me. Used to play in bands years ago.