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Your bike in front of ... a song
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raleighnut
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Here are a couple from my ride yesterday
I attended Stanley Tech, in South Norwood Hill I think it was, oh yeah
Where the bronze bust was nicked, let me think it must have been in my third year
Croydon - Captain Sensible
Stanley Tech is now called the Harris Academy, but the Stanley Hall is still there. William Hall Stanley who founded it was an interesting chap - he had an early patent on the use of wire spokes in bicycle wheels. Stormzy went to Stanley Tech as well as Captain Sensible.
The Higsons come from Norwich, woah oh
But I prefer East Grinstead, woah oh
And I'm running out of living
Listening to the Higsons - Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
I attended Stanley Tech, in South Norwood Hill I think it was, oh yeah
Where the bronze bust was nicked, let me think it must have been in my third year
Croydon - Captain Sensible
Stanley Tech is now called the Harris Academy, but the Stanley Hall is still there. William Hall Stanley who founded it was an interesting chap - he had an early patent on the use of wire spokes in bicycle wheels. Stormzy went to Stanley Tech as well as Captain Sensible.
The Higsons come from Norwich, woah oh
But I prefer East Grinstead, woah oh
And I'm running out of living
Listening to the Higsons - Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
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OP
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
And an old one from a Friday Night Ride a few years ago
Ever since I was a young boy
I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
Pinball Wizard - The Who
Ever since I was a young boy
I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
Pinball Wizard - The Who
FrothNinja
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Saluki
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Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep?If you know a bird that sings a song that names a specific place in the title or lyrics, sure.
Somewhere called Cheep?
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I'd forgotten about this thread. It didn't really catch on, did it.
Here's a picture of my bike about to board the Tilbury crossing. The picture is actually taken on the Gravesend side of the river - but close enough. You can see Tilbury on the other side of the river.
The song is "The Locktender's Lament", about a Mermaid who swam all the way from the Thames to the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania to find the young sailor who had promised to marry her, only to find that he had already married Miss Catfish, and was the father of triplets.
View: https://youtu.be/wNDoVG8ueVE
Here's a picture of my bike about to board the Tilbury crossing. The picture is actually taken on the Gravesend side of the river - but close enough. You can see Tilbury on the other side of the river.
The song is "The Locktender's Lament", about a Mermaid who swam all the way from the Thames to the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania to find the young sailor who had promised to marry her, only to find that he had already married Miss Catfish, and was the father of triplets.
I said to her, “Lizzie, you might catch your death!”
She said to me, “Guv’nor, I’m catching me breath.
I’ve swum from the Thames to the Mongahaylee
To find pretty Jackie, my husband to be!”
“I met pretty Jackie at Tilbury Docks
And sat at the bowsprit a-mending his socks.
He said that he loved me and he’d marry me –
His name is Jack Swabbie, the U.S. Navee!”
The Locktender's Lament - Burl Ives
View: https://youtu.be/wNDoVG8ueVE
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Jenkins
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Going 'In The Gallery' 😉
Probably better than 'Hey nonny no', I reckon..
