Songs about nuisance neighbours

Subject: Any songs about nuisance neighbours?
From: Penny
Date: 11 Apr 99 - 05:12 AM

I've got the eight on Sunday morning,
Meant to have a lie-in,
Who's started up that chainsaw blues.
They're cutting our tree!
Cutting OUR tree!!
Our neighbour's cutting down our tree, blues.
We'd told him that he couldn't,
Told him that he shouldn't,
Said we wouldn't stand for it, too.
He said he wouldn't do it,
He'd ask if wanted to do it,
But he's just gone and done it, true.
He's done it in the past,
He's cut and never asked,
He's cut and hid the cuttings so it can't be proved,
And now, at eight am
He's done it again,
He's cut the sycamore and with it my snooze.

It might relieve my feelings to be able to sing loudly as I pass, but basically, I'm just letting my feelings rip. Ignore this if you want.

Subject: RE: Any songs about nuisance neighbours?
From: The Shambles
Date: 11 Apr 99 - 06:25 AM

I am SO sorry Penny I didn't realise it was THAT Penny that lived next door. Of course I would not done all those things, if only you had said!

*smiles*

Subject: RE: Any songs about nuisance neighbours?
From: Penny
Date: 11 Apr 99 - 08:05 AM

Thanks! Cheering message. So what are you going to do about the amplified bodhran in the small hours?

Subject: RE: Any songs about nuisance neighbours?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 11 Apr 99 - 08:07 AM

"People upstairs" sung by Hamish Imlach

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Any songs about nuisance neighbours?
From: Lucius
Date: 11 Apr 99 - 02:47 PM

"SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS" by Phil Ochs

Subject: RE: Any songs about nuisance neighbours?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Apr 99 - 06:43 PM

The Neighbours' Cat, by Leon Rosselson - except that in my neighborhood here in California, we have neighbors.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Any songs about nuisance neighbours?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 11 Apr 99 - 06:54 PM

Elizabeth Cotton in "Oh, Babe it Ain't no lie" sings about "some old woman who just keeps tellin those lies about me. Sounds like a bad neighbour to me.

And tell the truth. Would you really like to live near the "Harper Valley P.T.A."?

I don't want to step on any toes, but Jim Nabors is pretty bad Nabors to me.

Subject: RE: Any songs about nuisance neighbours?
From:
Date: 02 May 99 - 07:58 PM

Sue him or charge him with trespass.

Subject: RE: Any songs about nuisance neighbours?
From: Penny
Date: 03 May 99 - 04:51 AM

Thanks for the advice. We've warned him, in writing, that next time our solicitor will be involved. He won't want the money problem, as his business is failing. He thinks it is because people can't see his sign. Hence the frequent chopping of our foliage, metres away from the boundary. Up till recently, it has been down to a distant landlord, who took no action, and I think he thought he could go on like that. The tree cutting took place after we had had words about another incursion, and he had agreed not to do anything else without going through due process. But I didn't think I needed to bother the Mudcat with the boring legal stuff. Just wanted to get it off my chest.