“I can look down and after song number three without saying anything I can see them; and they're going: 'Say, can't the bugger talk?'”
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Words & Music: Jake Thackray Click to download guitar tab Eileen Barrowclough Betty Nelson Susan Haverley Kitty Whittaker Celia Woodhead, poor Cecilia Dorothy Townend, he was good to her Big Maggie Bentley, all those children Young Molly Kershaw, couldn't believe it Amy Butterworth, died soon after Catherine Armitage, was unfaithful Little Cissie Metcalfe, never been the same The centre of the village is the village Cenotaph With steps of Yorkshire granite and a Latin epitaph It's there on temperate afternoons the nodding village elders sit And knock their poxy pipes out and blasphemously spit. Oh brother greybeard, we were heroes We know that there is blacker shag than yours Like the shepherd limping to his hillside, brother We have all been gobbed upon before Around the solemn monolith the passing partridge rest And the sparrow and the chiff-chaff impertinently nest The local whippersnappers lounge there and offend the passers-by Insolently lolling on the place where heroes lie Oh brother riff raff, we were heroes We know that there is bigger cheek than yours Like the ploughboy stumbling on the furrow, brother We have all been sat upon before A lover and his darling come and shyly intertwine And the humble love they make resounds around our hollow shrine Yes, life goes surging on upon the names of those who fell Her joyous buttocks thudding, his involuntary yell Oh happy lovers, we were heroes We know there's bigger jiggery-poke than yours Like the weeping orphan, like the staring widow We have all been jumped upon before Johnny Inman, Robert Jackman, Harry Kirkley, John and Walter Limmer, Johnny Lambert, Tom Nicholls, Ellis Richmond, Tom Walters, Edgar Whittaker, Sidney Wood, John Woodfield This version comes from the BBC programme The Camera and the Song. The names at the end are all on the cenotaph featured in the programme. Click to download guitar tab |