Escrita por Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb e Maurice Gibb, foi gravada em 12 de abril de 1972 e foi lançada em 7 de julho de 1972 em um compacto que tinha Road to Alaska como Lado B. Depois saiu no disco To whom it may concern, em outubro de 1972.
Barry canta os vocais principais nos versos e Robin no refrão. Barry regravou-a com Brandi Carlile em 2021. Foi regravada por Andy Williams logo após os Bee Gees.
Chegaram ao número 9 dos charts britânicos e número 16 nos charts pop americanos. Foi o primeiro compacto sem o baterista Geoff Bridgford.
Barry cantou e tocou guitarra. Robin cantou e fez harmonia vocal. Maurice fez harmonia vocal e tocou baixo, piano e guiatrra. Clem Cattini tocou bateria. Alan Kendall tocou guitarra.
Foi regravada também por Dionne Warwick com Barry Manilow, entre outros artistas.
A letra:
In the event
of something happening to me
There is something I would like you
all to see
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew
Have you seen my wife,
Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go
talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide,
Mr. Jones.
I keep straining my
ears to hear a sound
Maybe someone is digging underground
Or
have they given up and all gone home to bed?
Thinking those who
once existed must be dead?
Have you seen my wife,
Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go
talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide,
Mr. Jones
In the event of
something happening to me
There is something I would like you all
to see
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew
Have you seen my wife,
Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go
talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide,
Mr. Jo - o - o - o -
ones
Ooh you're a holiday,
such a holiday
Ooh you're a holiday, such a holiday
It's something I thinks
worthwhile
If the puppet makes you smile
If not then you're
throwing stones
Throwing stones, throwing stones
Ooh it's a funny
game
Don't believe that it's all the same
Can't think what I've
just said
Put the soft pillow on my head
Millions of eyes can
see
Yet why am I so blind
When the someone else is me
It's
unkind, it's unkind
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Yet millions of eyes
can see
Yet why am I so blind
When the someone else is me
It's
unkind, it's unkind
Ooh you're a holiday,
ev'ry day, such a holiday
Now it's my turn to say, and I say
you're a holiday
It's something I thinks worthwhile
If the
puppet makes you smile
If not then you're throwing stones
Throwing
stones, throwing stones
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A versão dos Bee Gees:
A versão de Dionne Warwick e Barry Manilow:
A versão de Barry Gibb e Brandi Carlile:
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