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Thread #3217   Message #2296795
Posted By: Mark Dowding
24-Mar-08 - 05:40 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Home James and Don't Spare the Horses
Subject: Lyr Add: HOME, JAMES, AND DON'T SPARE THE HORSES
This was recorded by Hilary James, Andrew Mathewson and Simon Mayor as "Spredthick" on the album of the same name in 1979

I found these words via a Google


HOME, JAMES, AND DON'T SPARE THE HORSES

(Home James and don't spare the horses)
This night has been ruined for me
(Home James and don't spare the horses)
Oh, I'm ruined as ruined can be

This was in the Gay Nineties
One night, an ace swell affair
She was dressed in her best Sunday bustle
And wore a rat in her hair

Her lover was not tall or handsome
But he was a terrible flirt
He spent the entire evening
Making up to every skirt

Angrily she reproached him
He heeded not at all
So she in her best Sunday bustle
Went flouncing out of the hall

She swept down the steps so majestic
To her footman standing below
And in accent loud and clear
She told him where to go

Oh, home James and don't spare the horses
Drive right through the main part of town
Oh, home James and don't spare the horses
He'll stand up 'cause he can't sit down

Hope this helps

Cheers
Mark