Albert Hammond - Names, Tags, Numbers And Labels Lyrics

WOW !! This is a spectacular surprise !! Found out about it from an Amazon.com review for his 1972 CD..... Thanks for posting it, José  !!

I always like Hammond. His songs were played and played when I first entered University and I worn the cassette out. Him and Gordon Lightfoot and John Denver. Overshadowed by the hard rock behemoths of the time.

haunting song by an underrated maestro. I like

Names
I know a man
Who drowns his sorrows in the cheapest booze
He knows he hasn't got that much to lose
Wino

Names
I know a man
Who speaks the language of another class
He sees nothin' in the looking glass
Phony

Names, tags, numbers, labels
Other people teach you what you are
You believe them as a rule
While my name for you is beautiful
Your name for me is fool

Tags
I know a kid
Somehow the ball game doesn't interest him
Isn't this where it all begins?
Sissy

Tags
She's twenty-five
She wants a family and a house to run
Her sister always was the pretty one
Lonely

Names, tags, numbers, labels
Other people teach you what you are
You believe them as a rule
While my name for you is beautiful
Your name for me is fool

Numbers
There's no escape
'cause time will do a number on us all
Your age is scrawled across the office wall
Old man

Labels
You gave me mine
At the time I took it casually
Is that all you really thought of me?
Sucker

Names, tags, numbers, labels
Other people teach you what you are
You believe them as a rule
While my name for you is beautiful
Your name for me is fool

Hm-hm-hm
Names, tags, numbers, hm, labels

Keith S

Keith S

such an underrated singer and songwriter 

is that good or bad?

Thanks a lot for posting this song. Souvenirs souvenirs

awesome tune, Had this on a cassette tape back in the late 70s! one of the first guitar lines i learned too