John McKenna
speaker
61 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
John McKenna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Duration, two minutes, 41 seconds.
Not too long, not too short.
And away we went, Paul Simon and myself.
Me picking silently at my guitar strings, he working away behind the curtain.
And along came Kathleen, walking quickly and then more and more slowly.
dawdling past our wall, clearly impressed.
But just as I got to the second verse, the one that goes, once my heart was filled with the love of a girl.
I held her close, but she faded in the night.
My beautiful rendition suddenly accelerated into a version by the Chipmunks.
and Kathleen's expression turned from surprise to derision, and she burst out laughing, and went her merry skipping way, throwing me a pitying glance as she turned in the gateway of her house, her head shaking, my chances fading in the blood-coloured light.
Behind me, through the open window, I heard my brother laugh.
"'It's all a game of Turl and Buck.
The more you put down, the less you pick up.'
And then he slid the speed back to thirty-three."
And Paul Simon sang, hello, hello, hello, hello.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
That's all there is.
And the leaves that were green turned to brown.
But by then I was on my way back inside.
My guitar under my arm, my musical career in tatters.
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