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Oink​!​/​Rosie

from A Gropeof Foolish Poke Songs by Jim Bryce

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2 allegorical segued songs about the political state of England. Stylistically, veers from punkish to country-and-western to (you'll have to imagine this) MGM lush orchestra to R&B (of the Status Quo type) to singer-songwriter material (think Donovan) - all in 5 minutes!

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A) Oink!

[Three singers; Narrator, Government, the Populace.]

NARR: Oh, the KIlburn ladies sing this song “Hoodoo! Hoodoo!”
The Kilburn men are never wrong, they tell you every day.

GOV:“Gonna kill the reds! Gonna kill the I.R.A!
If we don’t stuff this country soon, somebody’s going to pay!”

NARR: Piggy stands by the byre watching the fields get plastered with manure:
GOV: "Impure stuff I always think It stinks!"
POP: "But not as much as Mabel Thorndike*"

NARR:Watch her stuff you in bins without a hint of compensat-i-on.
POP: "Not on! What the hell they at? No fat?"
GOV: "Don’t care ‘cause it don’t matter to me!

Give us the coffers and we’lll make you an offer that you can’t refuse.
Trade you in dues.
Cut you in easy [pieces
Fry you in queasy greases qv EEC. So easy!"

NARR: Piggy says:
POP: "Stab me with morphine, enbalm me in margarine.
Kick all the old ones out on their face.
Cleanse me with Stergene! Pregnant me with blue genes!
Anything you like, get me out of this place!"

GOV: "Na! Na! Na!
Ooh! Tasty bacon!"

NARR: Piggy stand by the byre watching the fields get perfumed with manure

GOV: "Na! Na! Na!"

NARR: How can we be sure?

[Note: *Mabel Thorndike=Maggie Thatcher. These days I use whoever is the Prime Minister, or at least the most objectional of the Government.

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from A Gropeof Foolish Poke Songs, released April 19, 2019
Recorded at Emblem Studios, Strathaven. Producer: John McLarty.
John's wee band on "Oink!". John McLarty: piano and organ.

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Jim Bryce Edinburgh, UK

Jim Bryce's music ranges from rockish to folkish to jazzish to music-hallish, to material which doesn't tick any boxes. He has also written for theatre, concert hall (squeaky and non- squeaky), film and radio programmes for the under nines.

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