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Song For Mr Boom
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Song about sometimes losing a bit of the wonder and hope we have when we're young. The words 'Mr Boom' are used with the kind permission from Andy Munro.
pop folk scottish rockabilly political perthshire
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Whats this pish about peace, love & understanding... when they're eating YOUR pan loaf, shiting on your living room carpet & wanking over yer granny's photo.
Scottish Acid Avant Rockabilly Folk Pop with an unforgiving political edge. 39 Dangerous Street formed in 1987, and signed to Splairgin' Glit the following year. William Pullar...Acoustic,electric guitar, vocals Kelvin Gilbert... electric guitar, backing vocals Samantha Baxter...Bass Marilyn MacFarlane...Drums, percussion Associate members Captain W... electric guitar, Fiona Kennedy... Piano, keyboards Marilyn completed an SVQ level 3 in Poultry Husbandry in 1998. She works with poultry in Errol. Samantha Baxter works at an animal science lab in nearby Bridge of Earn. William Pullar runs a small dry cleaning firm in Perth. Kelvin Gilbert's CV shows lengthy stays in Lennox Castle, Gogarburn, The Royal Edinburgh and Spinbinnie Hospitals between his musical forays... Captain W commutes between his home in the dark heart of Southern Scotland and the splendour of St John's Toun. Fiona Kennedy pops over from Comrie regularly. A small but committed bunch of fans keep us in beer and whisky at occasional Friday night gigs in Scone.
Song Info
Genre
World • Traditional Celtic
Charts
#7,532 today Peak #59
#269 in subgenre Peak #5
Author
CaptainW/Pullar/Gilbert
Rights
Control/Splairgin' Glit
Uploaded
May 24, 2007
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MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 4:11
Story behind the song
Mr Boom, a character created by scottish musician Andy Munro, is quite possibly the greatest children's entertainer ever. Unpatronising and very funny he will stir a hall full of weans into a dancing and singing melee whilst explaining stories, jokes, physics, astronomy... And fairies and pixies as well of course. He's great. Boom's alter-ego Andy Munro is a really talented songwriter and singer. Entertained us up at The Waverley Bar, St Mary's Street, Edinburgh...blues, folk, his own songs, children's songs. Great. Still got the 'Edinburgh' 7" single Andy!
Lyrics
I'd stare out of the window in my room I'd sit and dream of going on tour with Mr Boom But reality tore my dreams apart and I grew up far too soon. And spent my years just dawdlin aroon. Met a lass an thought I was blessed We moved in together she got clinically depressed I'd stare out of the window like a bored unwelcome guest When I left I think it was for the best Auld Scotia I cannot quite remember What I saw through that window in the west Deja Vu and amnesia at the same time Slip through my fingers like a handful of dust I voted Labour for a bet I voted Labour to see what I would get Half a million dead Iraquis and a hundred years of debt And a decade I'm trying to forget I'm going to tell you the truth So cast aside the dreams you have and the memories of your youth You leap straight from the frying pan into the horses mouth And there's no choice when shove comes to push I'm staring out the window in this room Still dreaming of playing guitar on the stage with Mr Boom Reality tears our dreams apart and we grow up far too soon And we stop looking out for the man in the moon
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