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Thread #89699 Message #3206560
Posted By: GUEST
12-Aug-11 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Farmer on a Bike (John Crisp)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I've never seen a farmer on a bike
I don't know if anything is still happening on this site, but I was at school with John Crisp and have seen him from time to time since. One evening when visiting Norfolk I met John and we went for a drink at The Wheatsheaf (?) between Bury St Edmunds and Culford. Several farmers of prosperous appearance were moaning, as farmers do, about this or that and I remarked that my father always said that farmers are always complaining about something and telling people how badly off they are but nevertheless they ride about in big cars and not on rusty old bikes. I think this must have percolated into John's subconscious and emerged by a process of genius as a great song.
Ian M