Today’s slow drag is with “Fish ‘N’ Chip Paper,” from “Trust,” released in 1981. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello.
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Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Fish ‘N’ Chip Paper”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IHpJQB8Rew
“Fish and Chip Papers”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IHpJQB8Rew
The term “screw” for a jailer: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/12/messages/610.html
Other newspapers respond to “The World” shuttering: https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/weekend-herald/20110709/284245231998926
Buy the Book, "The Most Terrible Time in My Life...Ends Thursday" here: https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1G4Y0K7XGITK0&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608872671&sprefix=most+terrible+Tim%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1
So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo
"Fish and Chip Paper" Lyrics:
When Sunday morning dandruff turns out to be confetti
And the cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty
The girl of your dreams would have you up on an under age charge
And the man of the moment is the lifer at large
Chorus:
If you've got something to hide, if you've got something to sell
If you've got somebody's pride she might kiss and tell
Or wind up with a fight fan in the Hammersmith Hotel
You better speak up now if you want your piece
You better speak up now
It won't mean a thing later
Yesterday's news is tomorrow's fish and chip paper
The girl says she's leaving and this time she really means it
You can just look at the pictures, you don't actually have to read it
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
There's a man in the launderette and he's looking through your underwear for clues
And the milkman is working through the News of the Screws
He says...