Lyr Req: The Summer of '75 (Vic Reeves)

11 Jun 01 - 06:47 AM (#480663)
Subject: The Summer of 75
From: Bagpuss

Do any (UK) catters remember a really funny take off of folk music done by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer (as "The Ramblers" on Big Night Out) called The Summer of 75? I used to have it on CD, but I have lost the album. They also did a slightly different version on the TV show. If anyone knows the lyrics to either (or both), could you post them?

It's not all walking.....

Bagpuss

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11 Jun 01 - 10:22 AM (#480765)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE SUMMER OF '75 (Vic Reeves)
From: Bagpuss

Never mind, I've found them. And I'll add them here in case anyone else wants them.

From Reeves & Mortimer’s web site:

SUMMER OF ’75
Vic Reeves

I remember the summer of ’75.
I was your husband, and I was your wife.
We lived in a tent made of parsley and sage,
And we looked at each other and smiled.

I played the drums, whilst I played the flute,
Crash, bang wallop, and root-a-toot-toot.
We ate thousands of turnips, and never asking why,
In the summer of ’75.

CHORUS: Reflections of you in the waterfall, cascading through my mind,
Oh, reflections of you, still waters run deep, in the summer of ’75.

My eyes were blue, while my eyes were black.
I smoked a churchwarden, whilst I smoked some crack.
You murdered my wife, and then buried her alive,
In the summer of ’75.

I held your hand whilst you had a wee.
Sloosh went the urine up against a tree.
You shook your penis, and where the droplets lay,
Grew a beautiful woodland glade. CHORUS

We slept in an orchard on a tapestry rug,
And drank fine mead from an old Saxon jug.
We gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive,
In the summer of ’75. CHORUS

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11 Jun 01 - 10:39 AM (#480774)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Summer of 75
From: Bagpuss

And you can listen to it here

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