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Couldn't resist rewriting the lyrics for our most famous grocer's lad. PARK TAVERN SONG Once upon a time there was a Tavern, where our Ben played footie for the team. With his shorts and muscled Granville-bike legs, women thought he was the perfect dream. Those were the days, my friend. Ben thought they'd never end. He'd flirt and play for ever and a day. The ladies formed a queue, Their husbands never knew For Ben was young and kept it up all day. Then one night outside the Lyons Cafe, in the alley right beside the bins, Ben came f

Strange how songs bring memories instantly to mind, isn't it? I've never had any interest in pop music but my sister used to watch Top of the Pops every week. I can remember Mary Hopkin appearing on that programme and singing that song while my sister was packing her suitcase for her first trip to Spain. At the time, 1968, she worked for Horizon Travel on Parliament Street, just up from where the Victoria Centre was being built. She and her best friend, Su Pollard, went to Estartit for 2 weeks. Every time I hear the song, I think of them and that holiday. She came back loaded up with loads o

Great job. Well done Jill Are you thinking about standing in for our late poetry legend - Chulla

I was listening to Radio Caroline North this morning when the song 'Elenore' by The Turtles came on. I was musing on how pathetic the lyrics were. for example: Chorus ".....Elenore gee I think you're swell And you really do me well You're my pride and joy et cetera" That awful song was then followed by The Days of Pearly Spencer. just take a look at the lyrics - what a difference in quality: A tenement, a dirty street Walked and worn by shoe less feet Inside it's long and so complete Watched by shivering sun Old eyes in a small child

I'm more of a Bowie fan but this is superb. Sammy brings the lyrics to life...

Hello not posted anything on here before but this subject of companies with trucks puts me in there ,i used to work for H&S Distributors in longeaton in the 70's i was a truck driver there for many years until they went bust i use to love doing the night trunk down to london in the wagon and drag no engine restrictions in them days so we could get a bat on we delivered to just about every builders merchant in the uk we were always very busy never enough time to get it all delivered sometimes but we got on with it 35 trucks we had plus one or two agency when really busy hard to believe they

I didn't know that, CT, but it doesn't surprise me. The chorus sounds almost like a Russian/Jewish melody. By the way, is that Big Maude, Ben's former terrifying landlady, in the photo?

'Those were the days' is based on a traditional Russian folk song, and a version of it in that style appears in a 1953 film with Alastair Sim.

I've always thought Elenore is one of the best song lyrics ever. It's irony; sarcasm; sending up the whole "I love you, you love me" syndrome. Probably the only pop song which includes the words et cetera. The next verse is "I really think you're groovy; let's go out to a movie". If that's not tongue in cheek, what is. Not for one moment are they serious. Whereas Pearly Spencer comes across as O-level school boy poetry. (And I've got a compilation CD of David McWilliams material, and he doesn't get any better in his other stuff).

Right.......I used the phrase "Just Sayin'" at the end of my opening post. It seems that the term is meant to be used as an expression of being fed-up with someone or something. So, I apologise firstly for using a catchphrase and secondly for misusing the term. I have modified the originall post to remove the offending phrase.

Sorry chaps, I'm getting pee'd of with the use of 'just sayin'. It's become very prevalent lately......... Just f*****g saying !

Cats rather than children any day, Colly. I have three!

Ok

I saw TR14 NGR today. (think of model railways)

Nice one WB,,,The great 'Sammy'' Mr Bojangles...........Black,,Jewish,,One-eyed,,,Rat Pack man............

Came in late on this one. You missed your calling, Jill.. Perfect description of our Ben.

Cant say I ever really listen to the lyrics of a song, it's more the melody/tune I like, I very often prefer the instrumental version. There used to be some groups (Baron Knights were one IIRC) that made up funny lyrics to pop songs: one that made me laugh was a take on 'Tossing & Turning' by the Ivy League, it went "What's that funny smell something is burning." Us Trent Bridge school kids turned it into "What's that funny smell someone has farted." Most of the last 10 years stuff leaves me cold, though I like some of George Ezra's songs; Paradise being one, we do a line dance to that, I

10 Likes for that Jill.................brilliant.....I'm lost for words ,let alone Lyrics..................

Then and now She was one of the first to sign with Apple. Hard to believe that Those were the Days was released in 1968

By Ralph McTell Streets of London The Ferryman England The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle By Gordon Lightfoot The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Canadian Railroad Trilogy

You sure you not ''Just sayin''' that' Compo............lol

Always on my mind...........brilliant lyrics Fly

Two of my favourites, although very sad are .... Sea of Heartbreak by Don Gibson, and Always on my Mind by Willie Nelson. Also, The Rose, by Bette Midler !

Love looking up 'Song lyrics'..........especially from the 60s.........nearly every sentence we utter......is a 'Lyric' in a song,,,,..........just sayin.............

Brilliant Compo. Check out some Frankie Miller song lyrics on Long Way Home CD. Awesome. Bob Segar stuff too.

Brother came up to see me today,,,don't see a lot of each other,,shown him the Park Tavern picture that DavidW put on,,,he like me was over the moon,,thanks David,, We then spent the next two hours discussing our time playing for them,,and the other lads on the photo,,,,he's since sent me a picture of the Heathfield pub team (Arnold road) from the 80s,,,and waxed lyrical about the players on it,,,none of whom we see now. Don't know about anyone else but i'm always left with a sad feeling after things like that.,,,,times were so good,,,we thought they'd

I have no kids either, been out with a couple of girls who had kids but they'd drive me loopy after a while. Got a mental cat called Pix who drives me loopy though, lol...

I can see the image, but it seems to have changed, that's nothing like the Flipper that I remember