Question about song lyrics (Moody Blues)

Perhaps best suited for the British contingent in the audience:

Fishes biting
So exciting
Lunchtime sounds so inviting
At the bill
He gets a thrill
Sitting, watching Bobby Quill

From the album Days of Future Passed. Explain, please? :confused:

Try:

Angler Bill, he gets a thrill
Sitting, watching bobbing quill

The reference is to a quill used as a fishing float.

Thank you! :slight_smile:

Those lyrics, BTW, were taken off the Internet. They’re not mine.

Reminds me of these lyrics from Merle Haggard’s The Way I Am:

Before I saw them in print, I always heard it as “barber,” and had a mental picture of Floyd doing a flamenco using scissors as castanets.