he used to play mouth organ in a folk club they called the lady jane all the sounds as his friends and he would holler songs of love and songs of pain there wasn't much that he could use his time for so he used to practice everyday and play the mouth organ the blues and hard luck someday soon I'm gonna break away he used to listen to the bells of st marys as they would echo through those early days and sometimes even now he thinks that he still hears them although they're but a thousand miles away and so he came into this crazy business and do you know the stars all fell his way and he became another rock and roll troubador and threw the mouth organ far away and so he listens to the bells of st marys and so their echo haunts him every day so clear that he could reach out and touch them although they're but a thousand miles away although they're but a thousand miles away