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Merakai(Harris)
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Ritual Robes(Harris/New)
03:56
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Broken Things(Harris)
03:30
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Peaches(Beefheart)
02:47
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The Witch's Hat
(Northolt One Summer's Day in the Sixties)
Playing Pooh Sticks
in Yeading Brook
Though we didn't know the name
Past St.Mary's,
under the bridge
and further down the way
Did we walk?
No, we always ran
avoiding pavement cracks
Down the lane
to the park
On to the Witch's Hat!
The water fountain,
another treat
Tennis courts and bowling green
Now council owned
but vestiges
of times no longer seen
Sinking sun
and grumbling tums
Saying time to head on home
The parky's coming
Time to leg it
Come on, for god's sake run!
Islip Manor, Eastcote Lane?
we have to choose our course
We scarper quickly
off home for tea
All smothered in brown sauce
A bike bell and a whistle
Announce Dad's arrival home
"Hello Son, been up to much?"
He asks in northern tone
"Nah nothing much Dad" I reply
another Boring Northolt Day
Has just flown by and by
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Small Balls
(Playing Footy in the Playground with Tennis Balls)
Playing with small balls
No big balls at all
Small balls not big balls
That's what we were told
Playground mayhem
Each and every day
Playground mayhem
Everyone in the way
3 games per court
Chaos ensued
No rush goalies
no time to lose
Playing with small balls
No big balls at all
Small balls not big balls
That's what we were told
Choose teams now
kick off, lets play
Sharp memory needed
No other way!
Who's on my team?
No matter just boot it
No space to line up
No time to shoot it
Playing with small balls
No big balls at all
Small balls not big balls
That's what we were told
It's under the fence
So under you go
Don't get caught or
To the Beak you go
Spare ball revealed
Games carry on
Lost ball retrieved
Well done my son!
Playing with small balls
No big balls at all
Small balls not big balls
That was the playground rule
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The Other End of The Central Line
I ain't a Cockney mate
Nowhere near
They'd have to be
Bloody big bells to hear
Cut from a different cloth
At the other end of the line
We’re No better
We’re No worse
No more la di da refined
Just born (and raised)
At the other end
Of the Central Line
Middlesex Men
Identity stolen
Boundaries moved
Now forgotten
But once spread far
Round to Stratford le Bow
Irony noted what a blow
We ain't Cockneys
But you might like to know
A lot of you are
Middlesaxons
But it just don’t show
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FOOTBALL LADS ALLIANCE(Lyrics Robert Cunliffe)
I'm a walking cliché,
A parody of myself,
An anachronism,
A shit left on a shelf.
A looming, leering legacy
Lurching up the lane,
A pot-bellied pestilence
On the move again.
(Chorus)
Middle-aged munchkins,
Masquerades of men,
Half-boy half-biscuits
Marching past Big Ben.
Who looks down upon them
In fear and in shame,
Fear of what they're capable
And shame of the same.
Troops of old boy soldiers
With Muslims on the brain,
Afghanistan, Iran, Oman,
It's all just means the same.
Another barmy army
Conscripted to cause pain,
Heading up to London,
It's Hastings once again.
Fight them on the beaches,
Fight them in the fields,
Then back home to Bedlam
For cans and Happy Meals®.
Football Lads Alliance,
United round a ball,
Terrace temper tantrums,
Veterans of fuck all.
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Brian Harris London, UK
I died in the Punk Wars you know ...guts hanging out on the barbed wire in the women's loo down the Roxy.
Recently described
as 'the West London Chris Difford', I still don't understand what that means-I'm the West London 'Me'!
Osmucon (Osaka Music Concern) is the label.
Snailpace Publishing
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