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30 Jun 02 - 02:49 PM (#739863) Subject: 'Bristol Bobbies' From: Gareth Many years ago, in the days of my drunken youth, I heard a song entitled (I think) "Bristol Bobbies" a sardonic look at the Bristol Police. It went something like :-
"I'am a Bristol Bobby, patrolling on my beat, Anybody know this and know the source, or better still can post the lyrics. A search in the DT, and forum under Bristol gives no returns. Gareth |
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01 Jul 02 - 07:13 AM (#740058) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Bristol Bobbies' From: GUEST,Cyder-D (at work) Think it's "British Bobby" by Fred Wedlock, on his album "The Folker", side , track 2. |
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01 Jul 02 - 03:27 PM (#740229) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Bristol Bobbies' From: Gareth Cyder-D I think you could be right, its on the LP with Bristol Buses, one I remember well from those merry days. Ah well much scouring of the second hand record shops ! And Thanks. Gareth |
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08 Oct 02 - 06:40 PM (#799148) Subject: Lyr Add: BRITISH BOBBY (Fred Wedlock) From: GUEST,Hatman BRITISH BOBBY (Fred Wedlock) I am a British Bobby; I pound a Bobby's beat. You can tell it's me what's pounding by the banging of my feet. It's the Bobby's way of keeping warm, In his Bobby's ufinorm. I am a British Bobby, from the wilds of Redland Green. Why I joined the police force I will never know, Cos' I was almost human till about a month ago. One consolation to my song: The customer is always wrong. I am a nasty Bobby, like the rest up Redland Green. Pounding on my beat, boys, it makes me very tired, But if I complain of blisters, I'm sure that I'll be fired. So they gave me a panda car; now I just get blisters on my elbows. I am an idle Bobby, kipping down in Redland Green. Good old Cannabis resins we like it quite a lot, And if the truth be known, boys, what a lot we've got. It's issued to us every day For planting in a crafty way To become a turned on sergeant, freaking out in Redland Green. I caught a girl soliciting where I knew I would. I took her in my Bobby Box and I cautioned her right good. Took down her name with a frown, And that's not all what I took down. I am a virile Bobby, populating Redland Green. And when I get to old for it--a fight I cannot win-- My helmet and my truncheon I'll have to hand them in. Hang my whistle on a hook, Close my little note(e)book. I'll be a clapped out Bobby, being carried out of Redland Green. |
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08 Oct 02 - 07:25 PM (#799178) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Bristol Bobbies' From: CraigS While this was certainly included on Fred Wedlock's first album, the author and composer of the song was Dave Turner, of Hyson Green, Nottingham - the lyric was originally about a British bobby of Hyson Green, Fred changed it to match his locality. Dave also wrote the bus song, which was also originally Nottingham buses (also green, by some coincidence). |
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09 Oct 02 - 10:22 AM (#799448) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Bristol Bobbies' From: Dave Bryant I wonder if Fred gave any acreditation to the original author - he has been known to forget(?) on quite a few occasions..... |
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18 Sep 16 - 11:26 AM (#3810349) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: GUEST,Alex Watson When I heard Fred perform this he added a little monologue between verses, I can't remember it all but it was something about him finding a body on Princess Elizabeth Street, which he couldn't spell in his notebook - and ended up asking a passerby 'Can you give us a hand to drag 'im up the Downs?' |
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19 Sep 16 - 10:10 AM (#3810430) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: GUEST,SqueezeMe I think that should be Princess Victorial Street, which was the location of Bristol's famed Troubadour Club, a venue well known to Mr Wedlock. |
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19 Sep 16 - 01:44 PM (#3810463) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: GUEST,LynnH The tune is "Lili Marlene", by the way. At least that's how I remember Dave Turner singing it. |
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22 Jul 17 - 11:11 AM (#3867695) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: GUEST,Platenut Many years ago I heard Fred sing this one evening in a local police club. I remember that the lyrics were changed to include something about a man who viciously butted him in the fist with his face. Went down a treat, as you can imagine. |
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24 Jul 17 - 06:46 PM (#3868110) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: Jim Dixon This song, sung by Wedlock, from his album "The Folker and Frollicks," can be heard on Spotify. There it's called BRISTOL BOBBY. But he clearly sings "British Bobby." I am puzzled by the lack of rhyme between "car" and "elbows" in verse 3. Every other verse has a rhyme in that position. Usually that kind of thing is done deliberately for humorous effect: the listener is led to expect an obscene rhyming word, but a clean non-rhyming word is substituted. But if that's what he intended, I can't think of what word he had in mind. Maybe it's my incomplete familiarity with British slang. Yes, the tune is "Lili Marlene." |
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24 Jul 17 - 07:43 PM (#3868118) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: punkfolkrocker car ...arse...??? |
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26 Jul 17 - 05:17 PM (#3868451) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: Jim Dixon Punkfolkrocker: You're probably right. I guess I didn't think of that because (1) "car" and "arse" isn't a very close rhyme, and (2) being American, I would naturally say "ass" not "arse." |
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27 Jul 17 - 09:56 AM (#3868611) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: GUEST an "ass" is a four-legged equine where we are... |
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15 Sep 21 - 05:19 AM (#4120006) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: GUEST,Lee Prince The melody Fred sings here sounds like a slightly altered version of a tune I used to hear blaring out of ice cream vans in Bedford forty years ago. I always thought it was Italian, but does anyone know what it is? |
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16 Sep 21 - 11:29 AM (#4120120) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British Bobby (Fred Wedlock) From: GUEST,Lee Prince Answering my own question after I found it on a website of ice cream chimes (!), it's 'Lili Marlene'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSMuTm649Hk |