Totnes Bickering Fair is another spot of amusing Nappy Valley bashing, and is one of those two-minute uptempo laughalongs which will be a live favourite, without doubt.
See lyrics for Totnes Bickering Fair
Totnes Bickering Fair is another spot of amusing Nappy Valley bashing, and is one of those two-minute uptempo laughalongs which will be a live favourite, without doubt.
See lyrics for Totnes Bickering Fair
778
That’s amazing, I didn’t get half the verse references you’ve picked up on!
28 March 2008
bug
I’m pretty sure the first line is ‘So much for YOUR journey…’
I’m also sure the last line is one of the greatest lyrics of all time
Thanks for a great site, by the way!
31 March 2008
chris
Duh, must have been asleep. Thanks.
31 March 2008
NewtonHC
I *think* it sounds more like “Therefore henceforth” rather than “Therefore in sport” to me.
Could be wrong though.
11 April 2008
chris
Only a few days to wait before we hear the studio version, then we’ll decide!
12 April 2008
vinnie52
Great site!!
“So long it’s been hard” I think should be “So on it’s behalf”.
25 April 2008
chris
OK guys, your comments were all correct! Ta
25 April 2008
Jon
Chris
that great last line has a couple of words transposed
“Not now long” should read “Not long now”.
2 May 2008
chris
Sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees…
2 May 2008
Gareth Jones
agree that the last line is one of the greatest ever. For one horrible moment when I first listened to it, I thought it was Gareth, not Darren
28 June 2008
Pachiguy
OK, this is a bit off-topic, but does anyone know what the reference is in “You quoted Goldman incorrectly as we strolled”? Wikiquotes suggests it could well be “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Just wondering. And a great site, Chris – thank you indeed!
1 August 2008
Tom
Yeah I just assumed it was that Emma Goldman quote, to be honest. I’ve seen it misquoted on t-shirts as “If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution”.
I can certainly imagine Nigel being the sort to get pedantic about the exact wording.
7 October 2008
Chris The Siteowner
I suppose there’s an outside possibility it could be “controversial” rock biographer Albert Goldman. I like the Emma Goldman/bad T-shirt idea much better though.
7 October 2008
Jan
Wonder if it could refer to “Goldmund” from the Herman Hesse masterpiece Narcissus and Goldmund? Perhaps that’s casting the net a bit wide…..
8 October 2008
Hrhpod
I’m reasonably sure that it’s ‘without your credit card’ not ‘forgot’ since the song is clearly an amusingly spiteful ditty about a divorce.
As to Goldman, I think he may be referring to William Goldman, author of ‘Lord of the Flies’.
16 January 2009
Chris The Siteowner
…except he was William Golding I’m afraid. And it’s definitely “forgot”.
16 January 2009
Phil Clayton
When I used to sing with a folk group (!) about 40 years ago, my mate from Okehampton, Devon taught us a song called Tavistock Goosey Fair.
16 February 2010
Bonnevilleinbits
…which is still a highlight of West Devon Life:-
http://www.devon-online.com/towns/tavistock/tavistock-gooseyfair.htm
17 February 2010
s.g.d A Shropshire Lad
“OK, this is a bit off-topic, but does anyone know what the reference is in “You quoted Goldman incorrectly as we strolled”? Wikiquotes suggests it could well be “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Just wondering. And a great site, Chris – thank you indeed!”
On being told that she shouldn’t dance she wrote :
“If it meant that, I did not want it”
This has been used many times:
If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution!
If I can’t dance, I don’t want your revolution!
If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.
If there won’t be dancing at the revolution, I’m not coming. etc
5 April 2010
Alastair
An Emma Goldman quote that perhaps fits the song better is:
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another”
Though I’m not sure how it would be misquoted, so it probably is the dancing revolution.
12 November 2010
John Burscough
From the Red Bull Formula 1 team website on yesterday’s Malaysian Grand Prix, an interview with their lollipop man, Darren…
11 April 2011
Chris The Siteowner
Cracker. If we had an award for astonishing PBRs, that would be this month’s runaway winner.
11 April 2011
John Burscough
Blimey, thanks Chris (dies happy).
11 April 2011
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
Close but no lollipop.
I want one that looks like this.
12 April 2011
MIKE IN COV
As for Emma Goldman, I go with the “revolution” quote. But the “forgive” one is a translation of “Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner”, apparently French proverbial first recorded in War&Peace (1868).
4 July 2012
MIKE IN COV
Oh, and why Totnes? Monty Python barbershop sketch?
4 July 2012
John Burscough
@HRHpod: I’d really like the misquoted Goldman to be William – author not of ‘Lord of the Flies’ but of ‘The Princess Bride’. If so, the quote in question ought to be the motto for this website: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”.
4 July 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
Not long now before lollipop men are killed by Darren.
6 August 2012
Steve Nicholls
Gonna feed our children non-organic coffee…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/aug/15/totnes-war-global-capitalism
16 August 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
Paignton Zoo (“The King Of Zoos”, apparently) is about six miles from Totnes, and should be easily affordable on the money saved.
16 August 2012
Exxo
Thanks for that, Steve – I do think your link may be exemplary of a possible answer to Mike’s question (4th July, above) ‘why Totnes?’. Like Hebden Bridge in another song, it’s surely been chosen as representative of the chattering, bickering classes and the kind of conversations you might overhear there – possibly based on a bicker actually overheard by the lyricist, but probably not.
Plus of course also the relative proximity across Dartmoor to Tavistock, which stars in the hugely famous folk song ‘Tavistock Goosey Fair’.
¡ Viva la lucha ! ¡ Viva Totnes ! ¡ Abajo con el globalismo !
16 August 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
I’ll buy that, @Exxo.
¡Viva la revolucion! ¡No pasaran! ¡Me cago en la leche!
16 August 2012