Lyr Req: The Farmer and the Fence

Subject: Lyr Add: THE FARMER AND THE FENCE (Stuart Lawrence
From: GUEST,Bones
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 01:48 PM

This song was on Don Shepherd's first album 'The Sun and the Moon'. Written by Stuart Lawrence of Daiton-in-Furness. I can't get the last line which Don said was in a local dialect. It would be easy to make up a line to fit, but better to have the original. Can anyone help? Here are the rest of the lyrics:

There lived a farmer close at hand whose cattle loved to stray
And for their sins did penance oft and fines in court did pay.
Then acting upon judicious urge, he went to some expense
And had installed upon his land a new electric fence.

His cattle they no longer stray, to his delight he found.
The merits of this new device he hymned the district round.
To one and all he told the tale: it's safe and up to date.
But Nemesis, as you shall hear, was quite prepared to wait.

Now harvest time comes round at last; the land its plenty yields.
And every able-bodied man toils long hours in the fields.
The sun is high, much to be done, it's time for getting on.
But then, oh then, the cry goes up: "Where is the gaffer gone?".

They seek him up, they seek him down for half an hour 'tis said,
At last they find him on his back; says one: "I think he's dead".
Beside the cattle fence he lies, contorted as with pain.
Slowly he rises to his feet; his colour comes again.

"Now listen, friends: at highest noon, I nature's call obeyed,
And up against the cattle fence I directed my cascade.
The current flowed against the stream and wow, the shock was rough!
It bowled me flat upon my back, ----------------------------."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Farmer and the Fence
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Jan 25 - 01:56 PM

You can hear the song on YouTube. The mystery phrase comes at about 2:25.

All I can make out is "By Goff! It's [adjective] stuff!"

I assume "Goff" is a euphemism for "God"--to avoid taking his name in vain. I have no theories about the adjective.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Farmer and the Fence
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Jan 25 - 06:01 PM

sounds like gate fierce stuff