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This song was inspired by the news story in early 2015 about the Junior Oxford Dictionary compilers' decision to omit words such as Acorn, Bluebell, Conker, Chestnut and Minnow, and including Analogue, Broadband, Blog, Chatroom and Cut-and-paste...

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BLUEBELL WOOD

Do they still call this Bluebell Wood
Where ne'er-do-wells did no good?
Hit by lit darts fired by the sun
Travelling like javelins shot from God’s gun

Where dens, hide-outs and secret magic palaces
Backed on to the fenced, immense garden of the Harrises

Life was a song and laughter its tune
The world was a pudding, I was a spoon
It seemed bigger in my wild childhood
Do they still call this Bluebell Wood?

Do they still call this Shady Glade
Where bogeymen would stalk and we'd be afraid?
Camp fire cramped, frying pan and kettle
Bangers and beans, dock leaves and nettles

Talk of Chinese burns, Scotch mist, what a French kiss is
As a damp burning branch crackles and hisses

Barry boasts he drank a Martini
Then was sick on his dad's Lamborghini
Barry? Or was it Gary? Memories fade
Do they still call this Shady Glade?

Do they still call this Bluebell Wood?
Did we jam roly-poly home for roast dins and pud?
We would meet when shadows were short
Hold up the jars of prisoners we'd caught

Tadpoles, earwigs, daddy longlegs, worms
Capture a lizard, you’re a wizard of the firm

This was back when a box had three sides
And pennies got a multitude of chews and rides
And two years in the Army would do you good
Do they still call this Bluebell Wood?

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from NOPE UNINTENDED, released June 4, 2016
Written, performed & produced by Hamilton + Murphy.

Si Beex: audio mastering.

© Smoking Ant Records, 2016.

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