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English Village

from Down The Bright Stream by Vinny Peculiar

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When I was young I lived with my mom and my dad in an English village
I played out and I had fun in an English village
After school freezing in the pool with an unfortunate kid called Steve
Who impaled himself on the rusty spike when he was climbing a tree

Story time class one form a line in the English village
Stig of the Dump and Down Bright Stream in the English village
There goes the bell the it’s end of the day that means its time to go home
My cousin Gail keeps calling for me I wish she’d just leave me alone

My father’s fallen asleep on the chair in the English village
Mother puts a rocket my sister’s hair in the English village
The cricket team is playing on the green the Boys Brigade are tracking on the hill
There’s a girl from our school in Mayfair magazine and the thought of her is making me ill…in a good way


Everything stops at 7 o’clock on the dot in the English village
We all gather round watch Top of the Pops in the English village
When my Granddad says what’s the matter with him is it a girl or is it a gay?
And grandma says arrgh shut up Ken if you’ve got nothing better to say….

Paper round NME & SOUNDS in the English village
A souped up car speeding in the dark through the English village
Crazy Ian’s untimely end the radio pressed to his ear
They never found the driver; he didn’t come from round here…

I left my home and my family in the English village
And a brother in a hillside cemetery in the English village
The council are letting it go to rack and ruin it’s a crying shame
I recognise that man cutting the grass he used to live in Golden Cross Lane…he used to referee at the game

In the English Village
In the English Village.

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from Down The Bright Stream, released March 23, 2015

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Vinny Peculiar Worcester, UK

Vinny Peculiar variously described as – ‘An under sung national treasure’ [UNCUT Magazine]– a warm hearted Morrissey [Q Magazine] and ‘The missing link between Jarvis Cocker and poet Roger McGough and some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Wreckless Eric’ IRISH TIMES ... more

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