Jackie's House

(Chapin Hartford)



I'd put a little love note in a bottle

Throw it off the Bay Street bridge

Watch it glide along among the willows

And run along the bank with the other kids.



If that bottle didn't

Hang up on the stones

It would ride that river

With a will of its own.



It'd go underground

And come up in the creek

Behind Jackie's house, Jackie's house

I'd hang around until Jackie came out.



My hands would shake

My heart would ache

I didn't know what is was

But I first felt love behind Jackie's house.



You could hear a pin drop in that parlor

It was horsechair chairs and old lace

Jackie sat beside me like a statue

The other kids were out playing kids' games.



Those funny feelings

Strange and unknown

They would rise like the river

With a will of their own.



With the risk I took

When I first stole a look

into Jackie's eyes, Jackie's eyes

I saw forever in an endless sky.



My hands would shake

My heart would ache

I didn't know what is was

But I first saw love behind Jackie's eyes.



After all this time

Jackie's heart's still mine

And the love

keeps on flowing behind, Jackie's house oh yeah.



Now our little ones they laugh and run

Down by the creek in the summer sun

Jackie and me and the years agree

We know what it is it's love and it lives here

In Jackie's house, oh, and in Jackie's eyes

Oh and in Jackie's heart and mine...