Strange songs
Monday, April 10th, 2006 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanWhen you go will you send back a letter from America?1 or so we are enjoined by the Proclaimers, a spotty pair of Scots twins with a Harry Palmer fixation, in their world-wide hit, er… Letter from America.
It occurs to me that this is a bit rotten, and rather expensive, considering that there is generally a mailbox much closer than that. And suppose that “when you go”, you are just nipping out to the corner shop for a packet of sugar and some corn plasters? Bit of a cheek, if you ask me.
Especially when the song goes on to talk about “Miami to Canada” just a couple of lines later, in the chorus.
So, they want you to take a letter out to America, wander the length of Route 1, over the border into Canada, and post it back to them? Bit ripe, wouldn’t you say?
These are the boys who, and I quote,
“(But) I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door”
Now if they’re that barmy, I think they should deliver the letter themselves.
Presumably it’s a stunt to do with the Guinness Book of Records.
Madness, sheer madness.
I’m bored.
1 Pronounced: Wan ye gore whale-ye senbark a litter-free Americ-uh?
It occurs to me that this is a bit rotten, and rather expensive, considering that there is generally a mailbox much closer than that. And suppose that “when you go”, you are just nipping out to the corner shop for a packet of sugar and some corn plasters? Bit of a cheek, if you ask me.
Especially when the song goes on to talk about “Miami to Canada” just a couple of lines later, in the chorus.
So, they want you to take a letter out to America, wander the length of Route 1, over the border into Canada, and post it back to them? Bit ripe, wouldn’t you say?
These are the boys who, and I quote,
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door”
Now if they’re that barmy, I think they should deliver the letter themselves.
Presumably it’s a stunt to do with the Guinness Book of Records.
Madness, sheer madness.
I’m bored.
1 Pronounced: Wan ye gore whale-ye senbark a litter-free Americ-uh?