He Who Would Valium Take is a hymn. Well, sort of. With a church organ, bad singing and everything. Wow. Who saw that one coming? Thanks to Patrick
See lyrics to He Who Would Valium Take
He Who Would Valium Take is a hymn. Well, sort of. With a church organ, bad singing and everything. Wow. Who saw that one coming? Thanks to Patrick
See lyrics to He Who Would Valium Take
danny
…in the first line should it be “narks” rather than “marked”? Every time i listen to it, it sounds slightly different so i’m just throwing the idea forward.
3 June 2008
Martin
I’m sure it’s “…parked on the pavement narked”. If I was a kid with chalk, I think I’d be narked enough to draw a hopscotch grid all over the bonnet.
4 June 2008
Nick
Probably more likely to be ‘…. and jay though I walked on the road to get by’ referencing the illegality of crossing a highway other than those places marked to do so.
6 June 2008
Martin
Can’t see it being “jay” …it sounds like yea and would also fit in with the age and writing style of the original Bunyan’s “To Be A Pilgrim”, the tune which is used. “Yea though I walk in the road to get past” is a bastardisation of “Yea though I walk in the valley of death”, and of course “He Who Would Valium Take” is a nod at the line “He Who Would Valiant Be!”
7 June 2008
Martin
I’m still sure though that the first two lines should be
The car that’s parked on the pavement narked
Pedestrians and children with chalk
… as in that the car is p***ing off the kids trying to play hopscotch and the pedestrians.
7 June 2008
simon smith
Would it not have been easier for it to be “and though I jay walked on the road…” in that case? Nigel is an odd cove though, is he not? You could be correct, Nick.
7 June 2008
danny
yeah “narked” is right it certainly makes a lot of sense given the context
7 June 2008
chris
OK, before any more of you get narked, I’ve made the alteration!
7 June 2008
Jon (Glasgow)
I think the first word is definitely “The”, and I also think it’s “I” not “I’d” in the first line of the 2nd verse.
(Well, it is a site that embraces pedantry after all…)
Also, I’ve always sang “yell” not “gel” and “My fears would RELAY to my skids” – my thought process being, if the kids yelled, the pit bull (capitals or not? Not sure) would be liable to do something that would cause Nigel’s nervousness to manifest itself in his underwear.
Or something…
20 July 2009
Treadmore
I’m with Jon – first word is “The” and “I” not “I’d”
I don’t think it’s “yell” though – “gel” does sound correct, even though the context proposed by Jon would work (but “relate” not “relay”).
9 August 2009
Chris The Siteowner
“Narked” Confirmed: Source
17 March 2010
kevin
“average flats” is what I hear. “narked” is new to me,but makes sense. GREAT SONG
23 March 2010
MIKE IN COV
Too obvious or too obscure? In the sweet by and by is one hymn I do remember singing, to this tune.
14 July 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
Shitehawk is RN slang for seagull. Not that that’s relevant or anything.
1 August 2012
Exxo
It’s relevant I think in so far it was general maritime slang for seagull too, leading on Merseyside, never much of a RN area (but where so much of the slang comes from merchant navy & dock origins), to it gradually coming to mean a worthless scumbag.
1 August 2012
John Burscough
“At the transit camp the British soldier normally made his acquaintance with the kite-hawk (i.e. Black Kite), known familiarly as the ‘shite-hawk’.”
(Charles Allen, Plain Tales from the Raj)
The term has since been extended to include the Herring Gull.
2 August 2012
Elron Hubward
Shitehawk was a (local to Wirral) colloquialism often used to refer to the ecologically sound souls who were to be found haunting the tip at Bidston Moss (municipal land-fill on the border of Birkenhead, now grassed over and soon to be “luxury” housing I suspect) waiting for the bin lorries to dump their loads so they can pick over the detritus for the odd Earth Wind and Fire CD and half discharged SP2 thrown out by mistake.
Through common usage this term has been adopted as a sort of catch all insult de jour by the locals, some of whom may not be sure of it’s provenance, but are in no doubt at all that it’s not meant to be a compliment.
14 January 2013
Elron Hubward
Given that Bidston land-fill was also covered 24/7 in a living carpet of seagulls competing for the choicest bits of filth with the local Gnolls, it may well be that the RN slang was adopted locally when it became apparent there was little functional difference between the birds and the blokes. We may never care.
14 January 2013
John Burscough
I’ve got an old Manchester fanzine called Shy Talk (which ran for 3 editions in 1977 and was edited by a bloke known as Steve Shy, still something of a legend in Fall circles). The pun in the title suggests that shitehawk was already a term of abuse then, and there.
14 January 2013
Dave F.
Not sure why you think it’s Wirral local, L Ron. I would say it’s in national usage & has been for years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shite-hawk
15 January 2013
Elron Hubward
Erm… the name is Elron, Dave. Who is this L Ron of whom you speak? Never heard of him.
Also I was referring to the usage of Shitehawk as a term of abuse, not in reference to raptors of any sort.
The reason I suspect that the abusive version is Wirral local is I’ve not heard it used elsewhere in the country much…. well; unless it was by the ubiquitous ex-pat plastic scouser required by UK law to be present in every pub across the nation to let everyone know why it’s not a good idea to stray onto the Wirral penninsula.
15 January 2013
Mark
Shouldn’t it be “my fears would relate to my skids”? That just seems to make more sense to me – I do reserve the right to be wrong though.
17 May 2013
john chatterton
surely the first two lines are “the car that’s parked on a pavement marked ‘pedestrians and children’ with chalk” – i.e there is a pavement marked “Pedestrians and Children” and some shitehawk has parked his car there? – the with chalk bit seems a bit weird if it is narked
17 May 2013
nigel – No Not That One (Nx3To)
@John Chatterton.
See #5,7 &8 above
17 May 2013
Max Williams
I’ve never seen a pavement with “Pedestrians and children” written on it…it *is* narked, surely. “Pedestrians” and “children with chalk” are the two groups of people narked by the parked car.
17 May 2013