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Wow, I can't believe this has come around again!
Music is so very, very personal and many people struggle to understand peoples tastes. Me? I love this thread! I love music and hearing what others enjoy gives me pleasure. Keep it coming My favorite version of this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puZAGRkf6xc |
#332
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Wow, terry, I never saw your post. What a great book to have signed... I read the book many years ago and the film still breaks my heart every time.
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Ever since this track was released back in the late 1970's I've heard a line in the lyrics as "The Sweeney's doing nintey 'cos they've got the word to go, they got a gang of villains in a shed up Blackheath Road", but a few days ago I was told that the wording is "The Sweeney's doing nintie 'cos they've got the word to go, they got a gang of villains in a shed up at Heathrow"
Looking online I've seen the lyrics written as Heathrow, not Blackheath. The Blackheath version made sense to me, members of the band come from the South East area of London eg Difford is from Woolwich, Holland from Greenwich (Blackheath Road runs through Greenwich up onto Blackheath). Somebody reckoned the reference to Heathrow relates to the Brinks-Matt bullion heist, but that did'nt occur until a few years after the song was released. Anyway, I'm not obsessing about this but I'm still going for Black'eath not 'eathrow. https://youtu.be/uJ2cEc_TCH8?si=M02Ghqt7TcCxODoX |
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Oddly, I was listening to this song today and I've always heard it as 'Heathrow', the words I can't make out is something about the squaw being tied up,
"she doesn't mind the ? It's the ? she doesn't need" |
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Yes, looks like on my own with "Blackheath" - the squaw - "She doesn't mind the language it's the beating she don't need".
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British Legion/Royal British Legion , Poppy/Remembrance/Commemorative. Poppy and British Legion Wanted |
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Darn - that 'eathrow fits in 3 years before the record was released. "We're The Sweeney - and we ain't 'ad our dinnah!". "Yoo Slaaaag"
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"Beating", thanks for clearing that up!
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Considering that the singer's accent isn't "that" strong, a lot of the lyrics seem hard to go firm on.
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