I was 21 years when I wrote this song...

[Vic Eagle]

As we're having a few song threads today http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/smile.gif

I'm 22 now but I won't be for long

[little al]

F**K Know the song bt not the words.

A New England....Kirsty McColl (RIP)

[gcwhite]

When I saw this I started thinking of a Simon and Garfunkel song. Sure enough 'Leaves that are green' by Paul Simon and 'New England' by Billy Bragg both start with "I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long".

Did Bragg ever admit that he swiped those lines? I expect I'm not the first person to notice this but I've never seen it discussed anywhere. Probably because it's too boring....

[Oisin]

People ask me when will I grow up to understand
Why the girls I knew at school are already pushing prams

[Glaws Eagle]

I loved you then as I love you still
Though I put you on a pedestal,
They put you on the pill
I don't feel bad about letting you go
I just feel sad about letting you know

[Howie Lurker]

I'll never forget the first time I met her,
that September morning was clear and fresh,
the way she spoke and laughed at my jokes and the way she rubbed herself against the edge of my desk.

I must admit to naming my first boy 'Billy' after His Braggness http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Vic Eagle]

Errrr....was it:

She became a magical mystery...
To me and we'd sit together in double history
Twice a week
And sometimes we'd get the same bus home
And it's suprising how wet
A little rain can make the streets...

(this is all from memory mind...)

Brings back a few memories. Remember when he first came onto the scene in 1984 I think it was. He had a residency in a room over the 'Captain's Cabin' pub just off Haymarket. Seem to remember that it was every Friday night, and each week the queues got longer until they stretched around the block.

Just pre- student days for me...

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

... In the end it took me a dictionary to find out the meaning of unrequited,
while she was giving herself for free at a party to which I was never invited.

I never understood my failings then, and I hide my humble hopes now,
thinking back... she made us want her - and a girl not old enough to shave her legs.

Queue: Dave 'Hotlips' Woodhead on trumpet

Happy days.

[Zico Murphy]

I hate the arsehole I became everytime I'm with you.

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[Zico Murphy]

Thanks all the same
But I just can't bring myself to answer your letters
It's not your fault
But your honesty touches me like a fire
The polaroids that hold us together
Will surely fade away
Like the love that we spoke of forever
On St. Swithens Day.

[TARRING EAGLE]

With the money from her accident
she bought herself a mobile home,
so at least she could get some enjoyment
out of being alone.

[Howie Lurker]

What was Anna Ford wearing?
What did Angela Rippon say?
What will you do when you wake up one morning to find that God's made you plain in a beautiful person's world and all those quick recipies have let you down and your twenty and half and you're not yet engaged will you go look for the boy who says 'I love you let's get married and have kids'

[TARRING EAGLE]

One leap forwards, two leaps back
will a lack of mental toughness get Smith the sack?

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

I've had relations, with girls from many nations

[Neil the Eagle]

The 15 fame filled minutes of a fanzine writer

[DuncanW]

Fighting on the dancefloors happens anyway

[Benzhiyi]

We are pretty pretty thieves
And you're standing on our street

[Gatecrasher]

Where Hector was the first of the gang
With a gun in his hand
And the first to do time
And the first of the gang to die
Oh my

[westsussexeagle]

I saw 2 shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satelites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you really cared
(from memory)

[Kevin T]

I know this was four years ago but why would somebody swap between two usernames in a thread, only to make consistant posts.

[Oryol]

Originally posted by westsussexeagle
I saw 2 shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satelites
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you really cared
(from memory)

Perfectly remembered, wse (although we might quibble about the spelling of "satellites"). Thanks - this thread was going nowhere without those lines.

Has to be the best lyric in the world ... ever.

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Here we are in our summer years
Living on ice cream and chocolate kisses
And would the leaves fall from the trees
If I was your old man and you was my missus?

[John Barlow]

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything
Groovy
Wild thing.

[Fountainhead]

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[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

When you wake up to the fact
That your paper is Tory
Just remember, there are two sides to every story

[GazzaM]

Originally posted by little al
F**K Know the song bt not the words.

A New England....Kirsty McColl (RIP)

She did a cover, its forever a Billy Bragg song.....sounds a bit to lesbian sang by a woman!

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

He wrote an extra verse for her, she was a Selsdon girl and she is sorely missed by many.

[Mal]

It brings a tear
into my eyes
When I begin
When I begin to realise












that we have another eight months of this

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Originally posted by DuncanW
Fighting on the dancefloors happens anyway Sometimes it makes me stop and think
Sometimes it makes me turn away
Sometimes it makes me stop and think
Sometimes it makes me turn away
Sometimes it makes me stop and think
But most times it makes me run away

[Smoz]

How can you lie there & think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team?

[The Misfit]

Aint he cute?
No he aint!
He's just another burden on the welfare state.

Playing on the PA as I arrived at Selhurst Park yesterday. The highlight of the afternoon for me I'm afraid...

[Time]

Originally posted by John Barlow
Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything
Groovy
Wild thing.

I think I love you :love:

[The Misfit]

Originally posted by Time
I think I love you :love:

But I wanna know for sure

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

There is no real substitute for a ball struck squarely and firmly,
And you're the kind of girl who wants to open up the bottle of pop too early in the journey,
Our love went flat,
Just like that.

[The Misfit]

Love is just a moment of giving,
But marriage is when we admit our parents were right.

[westsussexeagle]

Originally posted by Oryol
Perfectly remembered, wse (although we might quibble about the spelling of "satellites"). Thanks - this thread was going nowhere without those lines.

Has to be the best lyric in the world ... ever.

Spolling never my strong suit and that pesky sateLLite word always gets me. It's always been a special favourite lyric for me too - pure genius.

[Fountainhead]

I never made the first team
I just made the first team laugh

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

And she'd never come to the 'phone,
she was always in the bath.

[Fountainhead]

In the end it took me a dictionary
to find out the meaning of unrequited
while she was giving herself for free
at a party to which I was never invited.

[PhillyEagle]

I loved you then as I love you still
Though I put you on a pedestal they put you on a pill
I can't feel bad about letting you go
i just feel sad about letting you know.....

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

I don't want to change the world,

[Psychokiller]

I'm not looking for a New England

[Maidstoned Eagle]

Are you looking for another girl?

Favourite Bragg line "He looks like Robert DeNiro and drives a Mitsubishi Zero!"

[DDD]

''I had uncle who once played,
For Red Star Belgrade''.....

BB at his best

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Originally posted by Maidstoned Eagle
Favourite Bragg line "He looks like Robert DeNiro and drives a Mitsubishi Zero!" He would also sing,

I look like Gary Crowley,
I drive an old red Ford Cowley.

[simon]

WHile you and I sat down to tea I remember you said to me
That no amount of poetry could mend this broken heart
But you can put the Hoover round if you want to make a start

Classic

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

All my friends from school
Introduce me to their spouses
While I'm left standing here
With my hands down the front of my trousers

[Judge 400 Years]

Now the cities of Europe have burned before
and they may yet burn again
And if they do I hope you understand that
Washington will burn with,
Omaha will burn with them,
Los Alomos will burn with them

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Help save the youth of America
Help save them from themselves
Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys
And the Californian girls

When the lights go out in the rest of the World
What do our cousins say
They're playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun
Till Daddy takes the gun away

[The Misfit]

I am the milkman of human kindness,
I will leave an extra pint.

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

If you're lonely, I will call -
If you're poorly, I will send poetry

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Bloody hell, Wiggy is on the telly, doing the 'line up' on Never Mind the Buzzcocks :p

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

They showed the video for Sexuality :)

[westsussexeagle]

This is such a wonderful thread. The real best of Billy Bragg. Thanks to all who have contributed with some brilliantly remembered lyrics. Magic!

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Originally posted by westsussexeagle
Magic! She's got a new spell, yeah that's how I know.

[losteagle]

'Woops there goes another year woops there goes another pint of beer'

Went to see him earlier this year down in Brighton, just amazing one of the best gigs I've ever been too, and thesecond best moment of 2004 for me.

Makes we want to go down stairs and listen my box set

[PhillyEagle]

Could it be an infringement of the freedom of the press
To print pictures of young women in states of undress?

[simon]

I said there is no justice as they led me out the door
And the Judge said, "This isn't a court of justice son, this is a court of law"

[Smoz]

As brother Barry said
As he married Marion
The wife has three great attributes
Intelligence, a swiss army knife and charm
but that's not enough sometimes

I managed to sneak this line into my speech on my wedding day, especialy to wind up my wife who is no fan of the bard from Barking, she didn't notice.

[Judge 400 Years]

Bring me the draughtsmen, bring me the craftsmen
and build me a path from cradle to grave and
I'll give my consent to any government
that does not deny a man a living wage

[Judge 400 Years]

There is power in the factory, power in the land
power in the hands of the worker
but it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
there is power in the union

[Judge 400 Years]

and la la la la la means .......

[simon]

I love you

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Oh there must be something in the air, just as I was pulling into the car park, 'A New England' came on XFM (on the x-list) :)

As long as you come back to me I will never ask...

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea.

[kav]

With the money from her accident
She bought herself a mobile home,

So at least she could get some enjoyment
Out of being alone

[Aylott's_Son]

...eye dont want to change the world..

interesting as it is, why has this thread come back after 3 years? How long do you keep records for? will I be able to access this in 10 years time?

[PhillyEagle]

My mother was half English
And I'm half English too!

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Our fathers were all soldiers,
Can we be soldiers too?
Fighting and falling like soldiers do.

[losteagle]

He was the kind of man that war takes away,
but there wasn't a war so he left anyway.

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

When the world falls apart, some things stay in place,
she took off the Four Tops tape, and put it back in its case,
When the world falls apart, some things stay in place,

[David of Kent]

Don't say you're easy on me
You're about as easy as a nuclear war

She used to be a diplomat
But now she's down the laundromat

:bash: :bash: :sob: :sob:

[simon]

I love you so much that baby it's such
I'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe
And that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do

[losteagle]

God I wish I could remember the next line of that I've only just been listening to it in the car

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Well it is actually "Yeah that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do" ;)

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

There's something inside that hurts my foolish pride, to visit the places we used to go together, not a day goes by...

[losteagle]

Thank you Wooden fish with wheels

'I wish I could remember the day I first met you,
If i had know i would spend the rest of my life with you'
I would have held your gaze a little bit longer'

[Fountainhead]

Originally posted by A Wooden Fish On Wheels
There's something inside that hurts my foolish pride, to visit the places we used to go together, not a day goes by...

..I don't sit and wonder why your feelings for me didn't last forever.

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

In 1649, to St. George's Hill...

[PhillyEagle]

A ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the people's will

[simon]

If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness..

[Judge 400 Years]

They defied the landlords, they defied the law

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

They were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs,
we come in peace they said,

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Originally posted by simon
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness.. Take the A road, the okay road that's the best

[Judge 400 Years]

...to dig and sow
we come to work the land in common
and to make the wastelands grow

[simon]

Originally posted by A Wooden Fish On Wheels
Take the A road, the okay road that's the best

Go motoring on the A13.

[The Misfit]

If ever anyone could help me with my obsession with
The young Susannah York it was Mary

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Thank you for the things you bought me, thank you for the card

[Norvun Mankey]

It starts out in Wapping?

[Norvun Mankey]

How about:

"I haven't touched the garden since the day she walked away
From a love affair that bore only bitter fruit"

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

She took everything she wanted, which is why she left me here with these pots & pans and my old wedding suit.

[simon]

For all you fans of Uncle Bill, here's a link to the words for all his songs, if you didn't already know it

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/releases/song_list/index.html

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

I like that new 'Must I paint you a picture' T-shirt, but they don't do it in XXL :sob:

Join the struggle while you may,
the revolution is just an ethical threads XXL dart player size t-shirt away...

[Maz]

Don't come the cowboy with me, Fish on Wheels...

[Aguila]

Great thread. Has kept me amused for hours (easily done). Wonder what happened to Vic Eagle and The Doctor?

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Originally posted by Maz
Don't come the cowboy with me, Fish on Wheels... ok, Sonny Jim ;)

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Originally posted by Aguila
Wonder what happened to Vic Eagle and The Doctor? I heard The Doctor was on here posting as someone else?

And though they stitched her back together they left her heart in pieces on the floor

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

When the world falls apart, some things stay in place,
she took off the Four Tops tape, and put it back in its case,

[CK]

OK Levi it out:p

What about

"I'm your genie, I'm your friend
I'm your willing slave
Take a chance, just feed me and
You know the kinda eats,
The kinda red hot treats
The kinda sticky licky sweets
I crave"

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Feed Me! Feed me!

When I was younger, just a bad little kid
My mama noticed funny things I did
Like shooting puppies with a B.B. gun
I'd poison guppies and when I was done
I'd find a pussycat and bash in its head
That's when my mama said

[CK]

Oh that dentist..... spot the tangental link

"From Bissau to Palau - in the shade of Avalon,
From Fiji to Tiree and the Isles of Ebony,
From Peru to Cebu hear the power of Babylon,
From Bali to Cali - far beneath the Coral Sea."

[Sandowneagle]

"how can you lay back and think of England,
when you don't even know who's in the team".

[eddieskyclad]

Slightly off topic but...

I used to buy my chips from an oppressive chip shop regime.