I am trying to recall and reconstruct two parodies I heard based on two old English folk songs. I have bits and pieces of the verses, but can’t remember the rest. Please bear with me:
Based on “Early on Morning”, tone of the song decrying the loss of the ‘traditional English pub’
Early one evening, just as the pubs were opening,
A traveller came walking down the cold and rainy street
He saw a door a-jar, entered the public bar:
“Landlord I would like a pint and something nice to eat.”
"I fancy some crusty bread and roast beef of old Eng-a-land,
A tangy home-made pickle and some butter from the churn,
<Rest of verse missing, musing about playing darts with the locals>
<Other verses>
<And basically the bartender offers him something like a pre-packaged sandwich and a can of beer and an arcade game. Something in there too about the traveller sitting near a jukebox at a
…polystyrene inglenook,
Its plastic beams vibrating to the electronic sound."
Can’t remember the rest.
Based on "The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies"
<Upper-class man comes home from work, and finds out from the servants that his wife has run off with “the hippies and the hairies, oh”.
Remembered verses:
“Go fetch my Rolls SOMETHING SOMETHING
For the Daimler’s not so speedy, oh,
And I shall drive 'til I find her alive
Or dead with the hippies and the hairies, oh.”
<Other verses>
“Oh what care I for your house and car,
The washing machine and freezer, oh?
<Words to the effect that the wife has time-bombed the house>
To explode in the middle of ‘The Jimmy Young Show’.”
Can’t remember the rest.
I used to have a tape with these, but cannot find it any more. Would any Doper please help me with this?