- - Oooh, Winchester Cathedral, you're bringin' me down
You stood and you watched as my baby left town
You could'a done somethin', hey, you didn't try
You didn't do nothin', you just let her walk by
- That's nice Mum. Who sung it??
-- Oh it's The Beatles*. I love that song. It's so clever:
You could have done something
But you didn't try
You didn't do nothing
You let her walk by...
oh, something about bells...
She wouldn't have gone far away
If only you'd started ringing your bell
- Lovely. Thanks for that.
-- But they have a sense of humour... The Beatles are nice, but The Rolling Stones... Well they have such horrible mouths.
- [coughing toast and bacon. hysterics.]
-- You know, when they're recording... His horrible elastic mouth goes cursing away...
- Mum! [toasty splutters. brown sauce spreading.]
*Like all women, the Mothership is incorrect in this instance. 'Winchester Cathedral' was a Number 1 hit on December 3rd, 17th and 24th 1967 by The New Vaudeville Band.
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Of particular interest to our family was the New Vaudeville Band's subsequent song Green Street Green: Take a trip to Green Street Green/Get yourself a little scene/Everything is fine and groovy/Down at Green Street Green.
This was of interest to us because Green St Green was an area on the edge of Orpington just a ten minute bike ride from where we lived. The song goes on to give a picture of a rural idyll. Green Street Green was nice enough, and was on the rural fringe of London, but it had a somewhat suburban feel and was not really any finer or groovier than anywhere else. It turned out that the member of the band who wrote the song had never been there but just liked the sound of it. I wonder if he had ever been to Winchester Cathedral.
Another place name that became the title of a NVB song was Finchley Central. I think any place would do so long as it fitted the scansion.
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