A song about Cynthia Lennon's enduring love for her former husband and father of her child, Julian Lennon. Inspired by footage of Cynthia visiting Mendips, Liverpool home of John's Aunt Mimi, where Jon and Cynthia and Julian lived in the early 1960's.

A Broken Heart (For Cynthia )by Barry Jones

A song entry for the Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting competition 2012 by Barry Jones, performed by The Southbound Attic Band (Barry jones and Ronnie Clark)

San Vito 1970

Caution Strong Language! A song about the perils of swearing by Barry Jones, written for the members of Ian Prowse's Monday Club held at The Cavern Pub, Mathew Street, Liverpool. Performed by The Southbound Attic Band (Barry Jones and Ronnie Clark). Parental Advisory!

Hide The Sausage (Caution Strong Language)

A nu skiffle song. ie a recent song written and played in an old style (by old people!). Written by Barry Jones and performed by Barry Jones and Ronnie Clark (The Southbound Attic Band). 

Fire Down Below- Southbound Attic Band

A morality tale about the perils of swearing. Includes swearing! You have been warned!

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Hide The Sausage

A song written by Barry Jones (Southbound Attic Band) about a trip to Dublin from Liverpool by members of The Ian Prowse Monday Club at The Cavern Pub, Mathew Street, Liverpool UK in January 2019 for the unveiling of two statues of Luke Kelly (Dubliners) on the 35th anniversary of his death. The song tells the tale of the 36 hours and the evening concert in The International Bar with Damien Dempsey, the guys from Lankum, Luke Kelly's neice and Sparky and Milky! Photo redtop images

Banjo Luke and Luke The Giant Head (Demo) by Barry Jones

Inspired by artwork installation Once Upon A Time by Carl Fletcher at ViewTwo Gallery, Mathew Street, Liverpool Autumn 2013 and Antiques Roadshow (BBC). Written by Barry Jones and entered for Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge 2013. Performed at the final by Barry Jones and Ronnie Clark aka The Southbound Attic Band and received Audience Favourite award.

The Ballad of George and Maude (Barry Jones MCPS-PRS)

She knew once she saw him that he was the only one just like Mary in It’s a Wonderful Life
She watched him from the corner he played football in the street, 9 years old, love at first sight
And so it came to pass because of the war they were married one July day aged 19
In his uniform and his pack and her with her gas mask she waved him off from a station full of steam

She gazed at her feet as she walked sadly down the street until she came to a familiar sight
How could she forget it was the place that they first met and so she promised herself that night
That while he was away she would visit every day the place that she first saw him kick a ball
Known only to her it was a shrine to her love, A football goal painted on a wall

The days turned to months and the months turned to years and he wrote her a letter every week
She kept them in a box and read them over again, romantic words of love tender and sweet
And day after day, come rain hail or shine, down the street past the old Methodist hall
Turned right at Nursery Lane and there it was again, A football goal painted on a wall

Then one Bible black night, no moon or stars in sight, she dreamed that he took her by the hand
He led her out into the street with bare and bloodied feet, as the bombers rained their terror on the land
A shell hit her house first and the neighbours feared the worst and no-one could comprehend at all
How she’d managed to survive, cold and wet but still alive at the football goal painted on a wall

When he came home from the war, they would part again no more and had seventy years of married life
They’d been born on the same day and they died the same way, he passed first and she followed the next night
They said her heart was broken and that she didn’t want to live once he’d heard the heavenly angels call
And the funeral  had to pause as their will stated of course, at the football goal painted on a wall.


The Ballad Of George And Maude

The Ballad of George and Maude, written by Barry Jones, performed byThe Southbound Attic Band (Barry Jones & Ronnie Clark) reviewed on Stars in Their Ears feature on Billy Butler's Saturday Morning Radio Merseyside programme 7th June 2014 with Lynn Staunton, Bobby Sox and Asa Murphy on the panel. Also features new song by Millie Courtney and review.

Stars In Their Ears Billy Butler BBC Radio Merseyside7June 2014 Ballad of George and Maude

A song by Barry Jones for all women who leave their native shore to raise a family and find that they have new ties that are stronger than the call of home, but who never really leave in their heart. For Mum! From the 2014 CD Our Day In The Sun available from www.southboundatticband.com 

My Irish Home

A tale of Christmas redemption brought about by the sight of children singing, written by Barry Jones and arranged by the Southbound Attic Band with tubular bells by Ian Lewis.

Christmas Has Come Around

A story song from the perspective of an elderly gentleman in a retirement home watching some pre-war footage from the area he lives and realises he knows the people on the film.

The Fair

Never to old to be fooled, a short sharp uptempo, bluegrassy, folky tune for an age old truism!
Opening track from Seekers Of Solace (SAB 8 2017) latest full length CD from Southbound Attic Band.

Old Fools

A story of a woman of a certain age setting out on a new life, following a chance meeting one sunny June Sunday at Liverpool's annual free festival Africa Oye, and a mutual love of Manu Chao  and Cerys Matthews on the radio! Written by Barry Jones.

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Africa Oye

An original song by Barry Jones (Southbound Attic Band) recorded in Liverpool UK with additional instrumentation and vocals by Bobby Fury in Los Angeles, California. Cultural references include Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones, Jan and Dean, John Stewart, Jim Rockford,  Michelle Phillips, Mamas and Papas, Grateful Dead, Charles Bukowski, Kim Fowley, John Steinbeck, Beverley Hillbillies, Jackson Browne, Janis Joplin, Los Angeles, San Francisco

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