After their romantic weekend at Jimmy’s house, the couple were back to fleeting moments on the bike or the secluded bench by the duck pond. Judy was longing for another night of love and passion. Meanwhile her dad, Jack McDermott became increasingly suspicious of his daughter spending so much time out at night at Gerry’s house.
His suspicions got to a point where one evening he decided to follow Judy as she apparently headed off to Gerry’s house. To his horror he watched as Judy ran off mounted on the back off a motorbike, without wearing a crash helmet after passionately kissing the bike rider. He followed them at a safe distant in his car eventually to the Busy Bee bike park. A big confrontation took place and Judy left in tears in her father’s car.
Judy cried herself to sleep that night after having been grounded by her angry father for her deceit. The next morning, she was violently sick which turned out to be morning sickness as she was pregnant from her first romantic encounter.
Jack ruled the roost in his household and much to his wife’s despair he prepared to banish Judy to his sister’s house in Ireland to have her baby in secret. Just to save the embarrassment in Letchmore Heath of the pregnancy. The baby was to be adopted, and Judy would return nine months later to begin her life again.
Before this could happen, Jack McDermott took his daughter to the Busy Bee Café to finish with Jimmy once and for all. Nobody outside his family was to know why she was going away.
This song reflects the moment Judy confronts Jimmy outside the Busy Bee one rainy evening whilst her father watched from his car. Startled and confused by the news that they were finished and that she was going away, Jimmy jumps on his bike, roars off up the road tears in his eyes. He loses control and has a terrible crash and was nearly killed.
Track 6 Breaking Up Going Away
