Annie

 Nathan B. Spooner

She use to take photos for Rolling Stone magazine, I use to play street music for quarters in a can.

This song got started shortly after Annie and I spent the day together on a ranch in Sonoma County in the summer of 1974. After driving back to Berkeley and spending the night together on the roof of a shed in the back yard of 3005 Fulton Street, we made breakfast, walked to the Co-op, she made some phone calls, and was off to somewhere: maybe New York, maybe Beverly Hills, maybe Europe. She never told me and I never asked.

She lived in the fast lane taking photos of musicians and celebrities. I made my living playing street music in Berkeley. Once in a while, she and her friend David Fricke would show up at the house and hang out for a while, invite me to an event in the City or whatever. Other times, she and I would go somewhere: swimming at Lake Anza, to the country, to her apartment in San Francisco or to her sister’s house on Rose Street in Berkeley. Her sensual kiss and secure embrace left me with a warm feeling inside.

This song finally completed itself in 2017 on the beach near Pismo where I now reside with grown children, grandchildren, and family. What a great lady, that Annie. I miss her.

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Last Time I Saw Annie                           

(E7) Last time I saw Annie it was 1975. She went off with those bad bad boys it’s a wonder she’s still alive.

(B7) She likes living in the fast lane, (A7) not like me at all.

B7) Why we even got together now and then, I (A7) guess I just don’t recall. (E7)

(E7) Now I keep moving in the slow lane baby, just like in my youth.
And there is something about that woman, I got to tell you the truth.

I (B7) keep on writing songs about her and I (A7) don’t know how or why.

(B7) We both live in a separate world (A7) bigger than the ocean’s wide. (E7)

(E7) Now all that’s left is a black and white photo as she travels far and wide.

Sometimes I wonder will she walk with me again and be close by my side.

(B7) Cause she took off with those other guys I’m so (A7) glad that she survived.

(B7) When will she walk with me again and (A7) be close by my side. (E7)

(E7) Last time I saw Annie it was 1975. She was going off with those bad boys It’s a wonder that she survived.

(B7) She likes living in the fast lane, (A7) not like me at all.

(B7) Why we even got together now and then, I (A7) guess I just don’t recall. (E7)

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