The Triffid Song

Subject: The Triffid Song
From: cptsnapper
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 03:55 PM

Does anyone remember The Triffid Song? I seem to remember hearing Dave Ward sing it something like 30 or 40 years ago. Speaking of Dave, does anyone remember him and/ or know what he's doing now? His name was mentioned in one of the contributions to Diz's thread.

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 04:14 PM

As best as I can remember it from over 25 years ago

THE TRIFFID sONG

Theres a Triffid at the bottom of my garden,
It's a thing that we do not like at all.
For it ate my little brother and it made a pass at mother
And sister has done something in the hall.

Theres a Dalek and it's trying to rape my dustbin,
And with each embrace the dustbin gives a squeak.
Well the dustbin's overflowing and fungoid plants are growing,
Since my Dalek raped the dustbin man last week.

Theres a Triffid at the bottom of my garden,
It's a thing that we've slowly grown to hate.
So I'll go out and shoot some lead off and I'll shoot it's bleedin head off,
And I'll hope to God it has'nt got a mate.

cheers

Dave

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: Old Grizzly
Date: 02 Aug 10 - 04:18 PM

oops, had to give the kiss of life to my cookie

I learned this one from folk clubs in Stoke in late seventies

Dave

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: GUEST,Gerry Webb
Date: 24 Jun 11 - 08:53 AM

Wow!
I first heard this song, sung by Alf Fiddler in Chelmsford in 1967. He claimed it as his. He was a music scholar in London and a very talented musician. I have sung a version of this tune around the world since then. It always goes down well!!

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: GUEST
Date: 21 May 19 - 02:44 PM

missing middle verse goes.....

Now the time has come to take some drastic action
I had thought of lots of obscene words to say
But each time it hears my calls all the triffid says is nuts
And it turns around and walks the other way

BTW
it was written by Dave Turner in Nottingham in the early 60's

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: leeneia
Date: 24 May 19 - 01:40 PM

I googled it. A triffid is (in science fiction) one of a race of predatory plants that are capable of growing to a gigantic size and are possessed of locomotor ability and a poisonous sting.

All these years I thought it was a humanoid creature from Star Trek.

What's that big wild plant they have in England that's a relative of the wild carrot but is very big and very toxic? I suspect it's related to the triffid.

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: DMcG
Date: 24 May 19 - 01:51 PM

As an aside: The triffids come from a book "The Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndham and actually play a very minor role in the story (unlike Hollywood films of the book.) The book itself is much more concerned with how society behaves under extreme stresses, and so is much more about human nature than sci-fi monsters - and this is true of most of Wyndham's books.

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: Jos
Date: 24 May 19 - 02:32 PM

For leeneia:

Giant hogweed

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: leeneia
Date: 25 May 19 - 02:48 PM

That's it, Jos. Thanks.

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 25 May 19 - 03:56 PM

Leeneia,
I suspect you were thinking of
The Trouble with Tribbles! (Star Trek -- the critters loved Spock)

Subject: RE: The Triffid Song
From: leeneia
Date: 26 May 19 - 02:15 PM

No, keb. I'm pretty sure that tribbles are a kind of dog food.

:-)