Jools Holland and his Rhythm n' Blues band (Featuring Suggs) - Oranges and lemons again

Country - United Kingdom     Player - Colin

 
Oh it's the crooked leg, the crooked mile
The hotel lift and the menacing smile
The energy of an itinerant child
To catch a glimpse of Mister Oscar Wilde
 
Water borne, Southend on sea
Twisted Ben, disability
Lord a Mister Bo Didalee and Richard the third
With the most unroyal mouth that you ever heard
 
He's never going to do it, oh he has an all!
They're smiling politely, but they're really appalled
And it's turned out oranges and lemons again
Oh Three Bells in a row, three Bells in a row
We're in and out the evil
And it's up and down the City Road.
 
And it's sweet Jean Vincent, mean old Ronnie Kray
The loathsome slouch over bird of prey
Trousers pocket boys in unromantic places
Cigarettes falling from their sallow faces
 
He's never going to do it, he has an all!
Well they smile politely, but they're really appalled
And it's turned out oranges and lemons again
Oh Three Bells in a row, three Bells in a row
We're in and out the evil
And it's up and down the City Road.
And they're looking in the doorway of every town
The rough kids rally with their sorrows drowned
Burnt out faces and their ashtray eyes
When up goes the cry from the perforated skies
 
Oh he's never going to do it, he has an all!
They're smiling politely, but they're really appalled
And it's turned out oranges and lemons again
Oh Three Bells in a row, three Bells in a row
We're in and out the evil
And it's up and down the City Road.
 
Oh it's turned out oranges and lemons again
Oh Three Bells in a row, three Bells in a row
We're in and out the evil
And it's up and down the City Road.
 
And it's turned out oranges and lemons again
Three Bells in a row, Three Bells in a row
We're in and out the evil
And it's up and down the City Road.

 

Player's comments: Oranges and Lemons was a track on Jools’ latest album called Small world big band in which Jools joined up with many great artists to put their own characteristics on some new songs and some cover versions. “Oranges and Lemons again” is sung by Suggs, who was the lead singer of the 80’s mod band Madness and also co-wrote the song with Jules. This song was one of the new songs written for the album. Both artists are well known in the UK and both appear regularly on television. It is a song with a large “cockney” influence. Cockneys are people who come from a certain part of London (Cockneys are Londoners who are born within the hearing of the Bow Bells) and have their own way of talking – ever heard of Cockney rhyming slang (mince pies = eyes, dog and bone = telephone).