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Favourite opening line of a Smiths studio album

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They are all pretty good, eh?

It's time the tale were told of how you took a child and you made him old.
Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools, spineless swines, cemented minds.
Farewell to this land's cheerless marshes, hemmed in like a boar between archers.
I am the ghost of a troubled Joe, hung by his pretty white neck.


― Alba, Monday, 29 September 2025 20:58 (yesterday)

Last one is "Oh Hello"

― Mark G, Monday, 29 September 2025 21:02 (yesterday)

I did consider that but it always sounded more like a vocalisation than an opening line to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

― Alba, Monday, 29 September 2025 21:06 (yesterday)

iirc the lyrics on the record sleeve have it as

HELLO
I am the ghost of Troubled Joe
hung by his pretty white neck
some eighteen months ago

― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Tuesday, 30 September 2025 08:56 (two hours ago)


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