6 May 2008
And then I reach the Readers’ Wives
Gubba Look-a-Likes forms some of the most disturbing imagery in the HMHB songbook, yet the payoff is a lesser-known footy commentator. Well, of course it is. Thanks to Jon and Stu.
See lyrics to Gubba Look-a-Likes
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leigh
And the chorus was so good, it was re-used for Give Us Bubblewrap.
May 9th, 2008
Mr Larrington
Could that be “Tam” (short for Tamworth) pigs?
Jul 23rd, 2008
Ricardo
“Besides all this, he gave them the apanage of Gluttony, with its many privileges, viz. to swear great oaths and drink all day in diverse taverns, and gossip and joke there, and judge one’s fellow-Christians; to eat before the proper time on fast-days, and then sit gorging till overpowered by sleep; to breed like town-pigs, and wallow luxuriously in bed till their sides were fattened with sloth and sleep; and finally to awake in despair, with no will to amend, and in their last agonies, to believe themselves lost.”
From “Piers the Ploughman” by William Langland.
Feb 19th, 2010
Ricardo
Incidentally, according to Tony Gubba’s official website, “…he has been known to provide the vocal entertainment at the annual ‘Match of the Day’ Christmas party and serenade his colleagues with songs from West End shows,” which frankly conjures up images even more horrifying than anything contained within the lyrics of this song.
Mar 22nd, 2010
John Anderson
I once asked Tony Gubba if he knew about the song and he looked utterly bewildered and nonplussed so I didn’t pursue it.
Mar 23rd, 2010
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