=
×

Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Head To Head
Log In
Register
Unsung Forum »
Citizen Cain'd
Log In to post a reply
47 messages
Topic View: Flat | Threaded
Toni Torino
2299 posts

Re: Citizen Cain'd
Nov 09, 2015, 13:23
Squid Tempest wrote:
laresident wrote:
I for one would quite enjoy an album of a beery Julian doing Nordic drinking songs.


It sounds kind of appealing, doesn't it?


'And there’s still music to contend with, as Cope reveals he is writing a drinking song cycle. One of the songs, he reveals, takes place in Liverpool; another is located in the Outer Hebrides. Three, he says, are Irish-related.

“One of the Irish songs is called Clonakilty as Charged. Based on my recently upgraded visionary drinking habits, it’s a righteously singalong tune. Mind you, they’re all very catchy.”'


LYRIC SHEET: CLONAKILTY AS CHARGED


So, abandoned at Bandon,
I made for Seven Heads,
On the road to Rosscarbery,
Wanting only my bed,

I was drunken and stupid,
Till I saw with a smile
That the arrow of Cupid
Said: ‘Clonakilty 1 mile’

Never ask a policeman,
Where the locals brew best,
For he’ll only detain you,
And hand to you a breath test,

If you tell them it’s butter,
They’ll insist that it’s marge,
If you backsass policemen,
You’re Clonakilty as charged.


Chorus

Clonakilty as charged, m’Lud,
Clonakilty as charged.


http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/beckett-on-a-bender-julian-cope-s-debut-novel-has-landed-1.1862148
In reply to:
Re: Citizen Cain'd (Squid Tempest)
Topic Outline:
Unsung Forum Index