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Anything by Ian Dury
Oh golly, oh gosh, come and lie on the couch
With a nice bit of posh from Burnham On Crouch
Anything by Ian Dury
I Am the Walrus
The Beatles
I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
See how they fly
I'm crying
Sitting on a corn flake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long
I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob
Mister City policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky, see how they run
I'm crying, I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying
Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down
I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob
Sitting in an English garden
Waiting…
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look? Ooh
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fullfil the book
The best lyricists I've heard are Jackson Browne, Bruce Cockburn and Dylan. However, none of them have surpassed this snippet of pop culture from Jonathan Richman's Rock 'n' roll drummer:-
There he is in France,
In his stinking underpants..........
Has this gem ever been surpassed?
Anyone who can rhyme France with pants has gotta be a genius.
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
I identify with that.
[MENTION=1510]Binney on acid[/MENTION]
Fountains of Sorrow by Jackson Browne. Astonishing to have the presence of mind to write such poetic words about relationships at the age of I think 23? Astonishing.
The opening verse:
Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer
I was taken by a photograph of you
There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more
But they didn't show your spirit quite as true
You were turning 'round to see who was behind you
And I took your childish laughter by surprise
And at the moment that my camera happened to find you
There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes