Hard Times of Old England Retold by The Imagined Village
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Martin Cathy doesn't obviously agree with you
2 years ago 9
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good song. One can be really creative in changing the lyrics. It's a nice version I like it
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11 people live in london with holiday cottages in the country.
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This song should be our alternative national anthem. The words are so true.
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@Maddy4Me your mad
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This is happening all over, not just in the UK
They don't want the goods people produce and they don't want to pay people a day's wage for fair work. I'm angry and I'm not job hunting right now. I am just sympathetic.
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Is it weird that I know the lyrics to this song and I'm not even British?
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@Broomeister marching to bloody Blair's nose
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@AEngleSaex you've completely missed the point of the lyric. It's a reference to city-dwellers who buy *second homes* in the countryside and price locals out of their own villages - hence the following line, "for their HOLIDAY COTTAGE to stand empty all day".
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@Maddy4Me missing the point there Maddy4Me, it's an update of a song way older than Steeleye. Folk music is organic and must change to reflect the times, that's how it has always been.
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Cool music, and very clever words, but a hard-core Spanner like me cannot forgive the bastardization of a Steeleye classic.
Maddy4Me 2 years ago
It wasn't their song to begin with...
rebellionsucks 2 years ago 9
Can somebody help me out with the Countryside Alliance verse. I've got up to
The Countryside Alliance expects I suppose my support when their marching to ??????
But they said not a word when our Post Office closed
Can anybody help me out with the missing lyric?
Broomeister 3 years ago
Yes, I can. It's...
"The Countryside Alliance expects I suppose my support when their marching to bloody Blair's nose"
rebellionsucks 2 years ago
I've been trying to work out the lyric in the second verse, he sings: when tescos turned up all the ?????? have gone can someonre help meout here? Thanks Hammer
hammer6580 3 years ago
I believe he sings
"Time was I could sell what I grew at the shop
When Tescos turned up all of that had to stop
Now I can't make a living out of my crop"
rebellionsucks 3 years ago