This song was from the view point of a woman who loved a man and wants to go and the man who loved the woman enough to let her go. It is also a very rare 45rpm from a South African band that I traded nearly two dozen albums for. My friend Don ripped me off. But it was worth it. “It’s a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack/No hard feelings if I never look back/You taught me all the things you way you’d like them to be/Now I’d like to see if other people agree.”

Master Jack - Four Jacks & a Jill

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You taught me all I know and I'll never look back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack

You took a colored ribbon from out of the sky
And taught me how to use it as the years went by
To tie up all your problems and make them look neat
And then to sell them to the people in the street

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You taught me all I know and I'll never look back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack

I saw right through the way you started teachin' me now
So some day soon you could get to use me somehow
I thank you very much and though you've been very kind
But I'd better move along before you change my mind

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You know how I feel as if I'll never come back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack

You taught me all the things the way you'd like them to be
But I'd like to see if other people agree
It's all very int'resting the way you disguise
But I'd like to see the world through my own eyes

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
No hard feelin's if I never come back
You're a very strange man and I thank you, Master Jack

You're a very strange man, aren't you Master Jack