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12 Sep 06 - 11:00 AM (#1832676) Subject: Lyr Req: 6B Go Swimming lyrics From: GUEST,Chris Does anyone have the full lyrics for 6B Go Swimming, which featured on the Roy Bailey album Business as Usual? Thanks! |
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12 Sep 06 - 11:11 AM (#1832683) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 6B Go Swimming lyrics From: muppitz Did you do a search on this as I think I asked this question about a year ago? muppitz x |
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12 Sep 06 - 11:16 AM (#1832691) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 6B Go Swimming lyrics From: The Borchester Echo Written by Robb Johnson. On his CD Margaret Thatcher, My Part In Her Downfall. |
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12 Sep 06 - 11:20 AM (#1832694) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 6B Go Swimming lyrics From: GUEST,Chris Yes, I did a search - found a thread about the chords but nothing about the lyrics... |
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13 Sep 06 - 03:17 PM (#1833724) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 6B Go Swimming lyrics From: GUEST,Little Musgrave Robb also has a songbook out with the lyrics to many of his earlier songs. It's available via Irregular Records or contact robb via robbjohnson.co.uk |
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17 Sep 06 - 05:34 AM (#1836507) Subject: Lyr Add: 6B GO SWIMMING (Robb Johnson) From: GUEST,Susanne (skw), temporarily cookieless 6B GO SWIMMING (Robb Johnson) It always rains on Tuesdays when 6B go swimming Sky's a grey wet blanket, story of our lives You get the odd excuses - Samantha's ears and Joanna's dog Are always sick on Tuesdays when 6B go swimming Dino's got no coat again, he twists and twists his plastic bag Michael's burned on both his hands and James has got four videos Daniel finds some pink and white crochet for a baby A little piece of paradise when 6B go swimming And at the baths the roof leaks, attendants shout and old men float And I collect the golden things children wear instead of coats But when the unreal blue is kicked white and the laughter hits the water Davina's smile says it all: mega-bright, and 6B go swimming I've two degrees and I don't know how to be as happy as they are now I was always too shy somehow to dive in Now on the side I sit and think, It's not a bad world just badly organised You either swim or you learn to sink, and 6B go swimming Free time and out and I nag them through the showers and back into their uniforms They swing on bars and they flick their towels and gel their hair into hard spikes I help with chains and laces while Anthony, King Rat, King Tut Is last dressed - a little boy lost when 6B go swimming We rally round the sweet machine, and thoughtful Trudy tests her heart-line Tina's last in line again and she's lost 5 p There's dog beneath the fallen leaves, my sense of humour gets chewed and blown like bubble gum But diamonds also grow on trees when 6B go swimming (as sung by Roy Bailey) Notes: [1994:] Robb Johnson is a [junior school] teacher and for a short period in 1963 I did some supply teaching in a secondary modern school in Dagenham, Essex. '6b Go Swimming' paints a picture that I recognise even after 30 years. Each new child and activity is placed before me in a vivid way. I can almost hear the kids shouting and jumping into the water. They got a raw deal at that school but as the song says diamonds emerge in the most unlikely places. (Notes Roy Bailey, 'Business As Usual') [1999:] Chris [Woodhead] has said that there are 15,000 poor teachers. Well, he's probably right. What people forget is that this is 3.2 per cent of the whole profession. If 96.8 per cent of people in, say, journalism, or - please God - the film industry were either good or brilliant, we'd see it as an absolute triumph. (Sir David Puttnam, informal government adviser on education, Observer, 11 July) [2000:] (1987) Supply teechin' in Feltham ... (Notes Robb Johnson, 'Margaret Thatcher: My Part In Her Downfall') |