I must say thanks to everyone who’s sent in lyrics; they’re all carefully stored here and we will get through all of them eventually, I promise. Every once in a while though I feel the urge to tackle a song which nobody has sent in and which doesn’t appear anywhere on t’internet. And so to On Reaching The Wensum, an odd and ever-so-slightly-obscure effort from Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral which features a rare Norfolk reference. And get this: the TV series “Kingdom” was filmed in Swaffham many years later …and Stephen Fry flies a biplane. Spooky eh?
See lyrics to On Reaching The Wensum
Kevan
I think it’s “wide berth Akabusi at [somewhere] Bay”, and it’s definitely “New Deal” rather than “Ian Beale”.
29 September 2008
Ben
Isn’t it Kevin Day?
I always thought it was ‘Big Deal‘ at the end.
I had a BIG crush on teenage temptress Lisa Geoghan as a 15 year old, pleasantly revisited when she popped up in ‘The Bill’ looking resplendent in her WPC uniform.
29 September 2008
grim
Oh it’s definitely New Deal – the compulsory back-to-work program Labour brought in in 1998. I concur with the sentiment that it is all my arse.
29 September 2008
Peter Gandy
Cemaes Bay. It’s in Anglesey.
29 September 2008
Patrick
I’m with Kevan in thinking its definitely ‘New Deal’…
Also, there is a ‘Cemaes Bay’ in North Wales (obvious HMHB link, but not sure how its pronounced) which could fit Kevans other suggestion…
29 September 2008
Daryl
only Nigel could get the phrase “profitless chicanery” into a song
4 October 2008
Tangerine Wizard.
I always hear it as why bear Akabusi rather than wide berth.Anyone agree?
3 June 2012
Dr Mango
Compare the second to last line with this extract from Nick Tosches’s book “Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story” (published in 1982). When JLL released “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”, he writes:
“preachers railed against him and mothers smelt his awful presence in the laundry of their daughters.”
1 October 2013
Warrant officer Ralph bland
Astonished rustic not too far from Swaffham
11 June 2018