Excellent stuff. One of my favourite lyrics (from a long list).
Mark
27 Feb 2025, 09:51 by dannyno@...:
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I know not everyone is into lyrical archaeology.? But I am, so.
Hot on the heels of my recent confirmation that some of the lyrics to "Oh! Brother" come from > The Hunchback of Notre Dame, > I've just tracked down what is almost certainly the source of the "Used table leg to club son-in-law" line in "2 x 4".
The earliest known performance of "2 x 4" was at Rock City, Nottingham, on 27 September 1983.
In the > Manchester Evening News> ?of 20 August 1983 (p29), I found the following headline:
"Father, 70, used table leg to club his son-in-law".
I don't think this is a coincidence.? And of course not the only example of newspaper headlines getting incorporated into Fall lyrics.
If you want to look:
Dan
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