Bare cheek: First try lyrics

A fascinating insight into the creative process as we examine the original drafts of those fanous songs that didn’t get it quite right first time:

LOCH LOMOND – TRADIT
O ye’ll tak’ the high road,
and Ah’ll tak’ the high road
And Ah’ll be in Scotlan’ at the same time as ye.

CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME? – THE WHO
Can you see the real me, doctor?
Can you see the real me, doctor?
Can ya mmm, can ya?
(SPOKEN) Well, I am viewing you through an endoscope, Mr. Daltrey.

THERE IS A GREEN HILL – HYMN – CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER
We may not know, we cannot tell,
What pains he had to bear,
Or whether he had clean pants on
Or any underwear.

Hove factually

Five things you never knew about fantabulous Hove

1 The verb ‘to hove’ derives from the town’s extraordinary habit of coming into view when approached.

2 The ‘Hove Rover’ was a discount bus ticket introduced by Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company in 1997. It offered unlimited, all-day travel between 18a Wilbury Villas and 18c Wilbury Villas (excluding 18b Wilbury Villas during peak hours) on alternate Sundays for £18.90. It was eventually discontinued in 2011.

3 Hove is actually a county palatine. There Elizabeth II is not known as HM The Queen but by the ancient title of Duke of Hove. Prince Philip is known as “Duchess” while Prince Charles is addressed simply as ‘Buggerlugs’.

4 Holders of the ancient and venerable office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Hove (a seat on the Privy Council since the reign of the Plantagenets) include such luminaries as Vince Hill, Terry Christian, Ra the Sun God, Bleep from ‘Bleep and Booster’, Toni Collette, The Boston Red Sox, Roy Marsden, Florestan and Eusebius, the Horse Whisperer, Cosmo Smallpiece, Mr. Chips, Magenta Devine, Cooperman, Boon, Lord Iffy Boatrace, Iain Duncan-Smith, and My
Pal Spadger.

5 The area known colloquially as ‘Poet’s Corner’ is a flourishing international tax haven. Over 16,000 multi-national business are registerd on Cowper Street alone. Until its collapse in 2008, Lehman Brothers’ head quarters were at table number three, the Corner Café, Coleridge St
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In & Out

In
• Harmless flirtation
• Nutty Bars
• Having a ding dong in front of the neighbours
• Corrective footwear
• The Rape of The Lock

Out
• Downright provocation
• Pat Coombs
• Wapping Old Stairs
• Tightly folding over the open end of a half-used sachet of instant custard powder
• Worming tablets

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