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Have Your Ever Tied A Knot In Your Handkerchief

from The Wondarium – Limited Edition Handprinted by Jeni Hankins

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Have You Ever Tied A Knot
In Your Handkerchief?

Have you ever tied a knot in your handkerchief
to remind you of the things you have to do?
Have you ever felt your memory is like a sieve
and everything you need has fallen though?

Have you ever blown your nose the next day
(and thought):
I wonder what this knot in my hanky’s for?
It’s crazy but it’s true;
these things remind me most of you.

It’s not that I don’t miss you.
It’s not that I don’t care.
I’m sure I meant to kiss you.
I must have made a note somewhere.

Did you ever watch a goldfish going round his bowl
swimming past the castle every day.
Though he really isn’t going any place at all
there’s lots of lovely castles on the way.
They say that an elephant won’t forget,
but I haven’t met an elephant yet.
So I can’t be sure you see
if the elephant remembers me.

I gathered you a bouquet
of pretty blue forget-me-nots,
but somehow in my own way
I managed to forget what I forgot.

Although my thoughts will wander –
they must from time to time –
if it makes the heart grow fonder,
forgive the absence of my mind.

Did you ever find you locked your keys inside
and only have yourself to blame?
Did you ever write a number on your hand some time
and found that it had washed out in the rain?
But there’s one thing that I know for sure,
though my memory may be poor,
the one thing I won’t do
is forget that I’m in love with you.

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from The Wondarium – Limited Edition Handprinted, released October 15, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Jeni Hankins, Lulu Wall Music, BMI,
Alfred John Hickling, Sweet Pea Music,
and Billy Kemp, Willbilly Music, BMI.

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.” ... more

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