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ElwoodHerring View Drop Down

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Topic: Any GRYPHON fans here...
Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:38

Who could explain the meaning of the lyrics to "Fontinental Version" - possibly the daftest lyrics of all time?

Here they are:

http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/poetry/fontinental.h tm

What the f%$%^*!£% is that all about???

(apart from that - excellent band! *****)

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Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:46

In case that link doesn't work (damn spaces keep appearing in links when I post them) here are the lyrics in full:

"Tidy the turdion - watch for the fontanel
Follow the fortinbras - search out the sentinel
Sing of the sandpaper - roots for the matchmaker
Taste out the after mint - Eastwood the motor - Clint.

Loose me up for drinking slicker
Candle light be doomed fond flicker
All's that doubt be down for dinner
Lily loves and downs be skinner.

Watch over Rover keeps fouling the bed
Leave him to be - so much drowning his head
Send him to sleep with a sandwich or two
Few would they ever-think rhymes with a grass snake.

Never no leather - could horse mouth the saddle
Sing badder be worse - you keep addle be daddle
Sing out and keep sighing - you never know luck
Could you by pigeons - no - out for a duck.

Singing - later boy later - I'll read that thing later
You dirty great hurdley screwed ably bod sale
Too far to be scavenging - load of old barbecue
Hit parade - pound of sprouts - boundly boy fail.

Tidy the turdion - watch for the fontanel
Follow the fortinbras - search out the sentinel
Sing of the sandpaper - roots for the matchmaker
Taste out the after mint - Eastwood the motor Clint."

OK guys, the nice men in white coats are on their way...

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Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:49

NO! Nor "Le Camembert est dans le Mouchoir" (or similar, can't be bothered to go downstairs to get the album; forgive the dodgy French).

Gryphon have a healthy sense of humour. Their lyrics can be barking mad.

Been a huge fan since I saw them blow Yes completely off stage in c1975 - we were calling for Gryphon to do the encore, not Yes. In the end, Yes realised they had to bring them back so they did a JOINT encore! Has that ever happened before?

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Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:54

"Le Cambrioleur est dans le mouchoir" = "The burglar is in the handkerchief" - or so I've been told. So does "burglar" equate to "bogey" in French? In which case it would make a kind of sense.

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Posted: November 20 2005 at 18:38

In what way is this a poll?

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Posted: November 20 2005 at 19:05

Sorry - posted in wrong forum by mistake

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Posted: November 21 2005 at 04:24

Tony Fisher wrote:

NO! Nor "Le Camembert est dans le Mouchoir" (or similar, can't be bothered to go downstairs to get the album; forgive the dodgy French).

Gryphon have a healthy sense of humour. Their lyrics can be barking mad.

and Le Cambrioleur Electrique from GonG

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword