Lyr Req: Five go off in a caravan

Subject: Song about SALT
From: Melbert
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 06:09 PM

Having successfully located words to the "Yorkshire couple" let's see if anyone can come up with this one....

About fifteen years ago I heard a group in UK called "Five go off in a Caravan" (Yes, that wwas the Group's name). They started, I believe, as "Six Hands in Tempo". At one point in their set one of their number sang a silly (but clever) ditty about a romance between a molecule of sofium and a molecule of chlorine.... Anyone know it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Five go off in a caravan
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 06:50 PM

Ask Julian, Dick, George and Anne - if all else fails try Timmy!

Jon

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Five go off in a caravan
From: sophocleese
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 07:28 PM

Didn't the McGarrigle sisters do something like that years ago?

Subject: Lyr Add: NACL (SODIUM CHLORIDE) (McGarrigle)
From: sophocleese
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 10:10 PM

Got this off a site on Anna and Kate McGarrigle.

http://www.mcgarrigles.com/lyrics/the_lyr.html

NACL (SODIUM CHLORIDE)
Kate McGarrigle, Garden Court Music ASCAP

Just a little atom of chlorine,
Valence minus one,
Swimming through the sea, digging the scene,
Just having fun--
She's not worried about the shape or size
Of her outside shell.
It's fun to ionize--
Just a little atom of Cl
With an unfilled shell.

But somewhere in that sea lurks
Handsome Sodium,
With enough electrons on his outside shell
Plus that extra one.
"Somewhere in this deep blue sea
There's a negative
For my extra energy.
Yes, somewhere in this foam,
My positive will find a home."

Then unsuspecting Chlorine
Felt a magnetic pull.
She looked down and her outside
Shell was full.
Sodium cried, "What a gas! Be my bride, and
I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride."

Now the sea evaporates to make the clouds
For the rain and snow,
Leaving her chemical compounds in the absence
Of H₂O,
But the crystals that wash upon the shore
Are happy ones;
So if you never thought before,
Think of the love that you eat
When you salt your meat.
Think of the love that you eat
When you salt your meat.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Five go off in a caravan
From: sophocleese
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 10:19 PM

Of course having done that its in the DT under Sodium Chloride.

One smack to the forehead and off to do laundry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Five go off in a caravan
From: Melbert
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 05:21 AM

Thanks sophocleese - that's the one. It didn't occur to me that something this obscure would be in there. I'll have to spend some time having a good trawl through....

Mel