Lyr Add: The Dorset Juggernaut (The Yetties)

Subject: Lyr Add: THE DORSET JUGGERNAUT (B Sartin)
From: wildlone
Date: 01 Jan 00 - 04:58 PM

Yer be a song all about country pursuits and the joys of the open road,wind in your hair,and flies in your teeth.
To the tune of The Girl I left behind me/Waxies Dargle /Brighton Camp.You know the tune with a hundred names.

The Dorset Juggernaut:

Now lorry drivers are a breed whose skill is highly rated,
Especially if their vehicle is articulated.
But the largest juggernaut that Parliament allows
Is nought when you compare it with my gurt big herd of cows.

Chorus rpt after each verse
'Tis a hundred yards from nose to tail, moves at a stately amble
It blocks the road completely and I drives it with a bramble.

Now cyclists be awful pests, they tries to beat the system,
They swerves their cycles in and out and thinks that we have missed them;
But when they moves along the side of Gerties shapely rear,
She swings it with precision and they winds up on their ear.

Now motorcyclists are the worst of all the road misusers,
It took a while to find a trick to make 'em come out losers;
But dear old Nell she stops 'em dead and makes 'em feel a sillyun,
'Cos they can't move nor roar away with a cow sat on the pillion.

And when all they that's late for work come roaring round the bend,
They slams their brakes on furiously and stands the car on end;
They say the road is meant for cars and we shall not be on it,
So Betsy lifts her tail up high and decorates the bonnet.

Written by Bonny Sartin of the Yetties.
Recorded on Top of the Crops-YETC 3005

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: About Cows-Moo
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 09:25 AM

Wldlone! That's is hilarious! Thanks for posting it! LMAO! Go, Gert!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: About Cows-Moo
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jan 00 - 04:25 AM

Ah, home sickness strikes again!!! Good ol' Darzet Juggernauts, how I miss 'em!

Granfer actually had a cow called Gertie, she was a demon with the shitty tail, could hit a milkmaid at 20 paces....

And yes, after experimentation during the summer back home in Abbotsbury, I can still do the milking thing by hand - like riding a bike, you never forget how to squeeze a teat or dodge the aforementioned shitty tail...

LTS, who is GOING HOME IN THREE WEEKS!!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: About Cows-Moo
From: wildlone
Date: 03 Jan 00 - 05:33 PM

Liz Where is home? The Yetties have the Music club on the 1st weds of the month at the West End Hall Littlefield Sherborne

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: About Cows-Moo
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jan 00 - 05:59 PM

Duh!

Home is as mentioned in the posting..... well as near as makes no odds....

Most of the family still live in or near the village, I spent the other half of my childhood about 8 miles away in Charminster.

LTS