Master Jack

Album

Master Jack

Label

RCA Victor

Genre

Folk-pop

Composer(s)

Spiro David Markantonatos

Entered Chart

Mar 30, 1968

Peak Date

Jun 8, 1968

Released

1967 (SA) February 1968 (US)

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

RCA Victor 47-9473

B-Side

I Looked Back

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You taught me all I know and I'll never look back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack

You took a coloured ribbon from out of the sky
And taught me how to use it as the years went by
To tie up all your problems and make them look neat
And then to sell them to the people in the street

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You taught me all I know and I'll never look back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack

I saw right through the way you started teaching me now
So some day soon you could get to use me somehow
I thank you very much, I know you've been very kind
But I'd better move along before you change my mind

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
No hard feelings if I never come back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack

You taught me all the things the way you'd like them to be
But I'd like to see if other people agree
It's all very interesting the way you disguise
But I'd like to see the world through my own eyes

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
No hard feelings if I never come back
You're a very strange man and I thank you, Master Jack
You're a very strange man and I thank you, Master Jack
You're a very strange man, aren't you, Master Jack?