Kokomo Joes

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Kokomo Joe's - (3:11) 78 bpm

Contact: Mark Lightcap
(530) 801-1216 mlightcap3@gmail.com

Songwriter: Mark R. Lightcap - ASCAP

Publishing: Chester Street Publishing - ASCAP

ISRC: QZYFK2300003

Recorded at: Bad Daddy Studios


I'm pretty sure I'll never grow all the way up, and I don't want to. For a songwriter, growing up is highly overrated. My imagination, which is the key to my songwriting success, is as active now as it was when I was a child. The Kokomo Joe’s lyric came from that young boy’s imagination. I remember being not only curious, but excited to explore the adult world and find out what this attraction to women was all about. I wanted to peek inside that grimy window at Kokomo Joe’s where Bobby claimed, “the girls dance all night and day!”

My childhood imagination was a thing to be treasured, nurtured, and appreciated. It could take me places and do things that were not possible in my "real life." Coming from a bitter, badly broken home I needed to escape to survive so that’s exactly what I did. One day I was a star half back on the Forty Niners scoring the winning touchdown. The next I was Willy Mays playing center field for the Giants making a spectacular catch for the final out in the World Series. My sofa became a gigantic battleship, the cushions were islands I could stand on to keep me safe from the lava flowing from an erupting volcano. I soared in wooden boxes that became my airplane. I also stared out the window at school a lot which was not appreciated by my teachers. My mind was always “dreaming” of things to do and places to go.

Lead vocal: Lightcap Acoustic guitar: Lightcap Pedal Steel: Steve Valine Drums: Carini Bass Guitar: Hilke Backing vocals: Carini, Darlene Marie