The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77329 Message #1379493
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Jan-05 - 01:34 PM
Thread Name: Minor characters deserving own song
Subject: RE: Minor characters deserving own song
The Landlady's version - yes, all mine. It wrote itself.
A possible change to it for the chorus - perhaps instead of:
And there's no tick, never, these words I repeat, If you ask me for credit, you'll be out in the street,
You might prefer
Oh there's no tick never, in the Rover's Return, But you can drink like a fish if you've money to burn.
The point being, that gets the Rover into the song - "The Rover's Return" incidentally being the name of a pub in the English soap opera, "Coronation Street".
Or even, it occurs to me as I write:
No, No Never, Never no more - I never give nobody credit no more.
Which has the advantage of being closer to the standard version, and therefore it might make it more acceptable as a substitute in response to a request for the Wild Rover.
I haven't tried the song out yet to see which chorus works best.