If I had possession over Pancake Day makes a couple of Robert Johnson-related references and then links them together via the medium of lemon juice. Very clever indeed. Oh you work it out.
See lyrics to If I had possession over Pancake Day
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zymeck
This is one of my favourite HMHB tracks
i always throught he sang either “we’ll call it a bull shift…” or “we’ll call it a bull shit…”?
(yes, i know it that doesnt really make sense either!)
Mar 27th, 2008
778
Yeah, its definitely bull-something, and I’m pretty sure shit. As in, thats what the Turner Prize winning pieces are.
Mar 28th, 2008
chris
Nope, sorry: if you listen to the Radio Merseyside session version, it’s absolutely, clearly, “full shift”.
Mar 28th, 2008
Neil G
‘Ragmag seller said “I’d be in pleats”‘ should be ‘Ragmag seller said I’d be in pleats’. There should be no quotation marks since “I’d be in pleats” is not what the ragmag seller would have said. He would have said something like “you’ll be in pleats”. The character singing the song is reporting what the ragmag seller said, i.e. the ragmag seller said (that) I would be in pleats but I wasn’t until he was cleaned from the streets.
I’m sure everyone can see how important this is to the integrity of the song.
Oct 12th, 2008
Chris The Siteowner
Fast… (gasp)… losing… will… to… li…
Oct 12th, 2008
Neil G
Hee, hee!
Oct 13th, 2008
Peter
think it’s “only when he’s been cleaned from the streets”, rather than “he’d been”.
Apr 10th, 2009
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