Voice of the man with the basket on his head:

Charm (is a lucky trinket or magical object – something like the hat I’m wearing!) worn under any arm by anyone that is possessed by the devil and is incoherent. Over.

Charm used by men or women to make them invisible to their enemies. Thank you.

Charm used by men to protect them from being attacked by crocodiles.

Charm worn by men and women over the head, helping them remember everything that ever happened to them and hence making the job of storytelling a lot lot easier.

So the thought kept coming back to him again, the thought kept coming into his head and he thought we’ll go and have a look at these stones, he kept going round all these places to have a look at these stones, and it kept coming back into his head about these stones, these heap of stones and there was this little girl buried underneath in a box, and he had killed her and chopped her up into little pieces and buried her under these stones and covered her over under these marble stones.

Chanson

And the green grass grew all around.
And the green grass grew all around, my boys
And the green grass grew all around.
And the green grass grew all around, my boys
And the green grass grew all around.

He concluded by saying that he was experiencing a unique sensation insofar that he was about to come face to face with aspects of nature never before experienced by man.
Everything working perfectly. Pressing on. Pressing on. Pressing on, and then again, pressing on. Everything normal. Everything working perfectly. Pressing on. And some time later:

Chanson

Oh wasn’t that a catastrophe, mm-hmmm.
Oh wasn’t that a catastrophe to happen in the old oak tree, mm-hmmm.
Oh wasn’t that a catastrophe, mm-hmmm.
Oh wasn’t that a catastrophe to happen in the old oak tree mm-hmmm.

He is not of the earth. He is of the sky. He flaps his wings like a Zerit bird. He goes to the sky. He goes to the sky. He goes to the sky.

Chanson

The fox and the hare and the badger and the bear and the birds in the green wood trees...

Oh he was the salt of the earth, there’s no doubt about that. When he dies, oh he was the salt of the earth there’s no doubt about that, he was the salt of the earth. A man like him can’t be replaced, oh he was the salt of the earth.

He was a most conscientious man, and first of all I’ll describe him a bit. He was rather unusually dressed compared to today’s dress. He wore cord trousers with what we call the tail board front, there were leather straps just below the knees. You see. Well, when I asked him what they were for he used to tell me,  “I use ‘em to keep the dust out of me eyes.”  And then he wore a jacket of grey fustian, similar to very hard-wearing stuff you know, and a waistcoat with lots of pockets.

Chanson

Oh I sowed the seeds for to plant them in the spring

I sowed all over May morning
While the small birds they did sing

While the small birds they did sing

 

Chanson

Away birds way. Away birds way.
I ‘ll up with my clackers (drums for scaring birds) and knock you down backwards
Away birds way. Away birds way.
I ‘ll up with my clackers and knock you down backwards

Voix d’enfants qui chantent

They grew and grew to the top of the tree

Until they couldn’t grow much higher
They turned back down in a true loves knot
The rose around the briar.(a small tree or shrub that they used to make pipes out of!)
They grew and grew to the top of the tree
Until they couldn’t grow much higher
They turned back down in a true loves knot
The rose around the briar

As the woodland year draws to its close the woods in the daytime are pretty empty of birds. The leaf fall is over, and the boughs and branches stand stark and gaunt against the sky.

Voice of the man with the basket on his head:
Hello

Hello

Chanson (Greensleeves)

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves my one delight
Greensleeves your heart of gold,
And who but my lady greensleeves

Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
When I have loved you so long,
Delighting in your company.

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves my one delight
Greensleeves your heart of gold,

And who but my lady greensleeves

I have been ready at your hand,
To grant whatever you would crave,
I have both wagered life and land,
Your love and good-will for to have.

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves my one delight
Greensleeves your heart of gold,
Who but my lady greensleeves

WHISPERING: Allah Allah Allah

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves my one delight
Greensleeves your heart of gold,
Who but my lady greensleeves

Chanson

Who’s that a climbing up my old apple tree
Bridget my darling I’m longing to see
I’m not stealing apples so I can explain
The wind blew them down
So I’m picking them up again

Greensleeves continue…

WHISPERING: Killer Killer Killer Allah Allah Allah

All them old songs were wrote with meaning
All them old songs have a meaning like a book haven’t them

That’s a man of seventy years of age singing that

It’s like everything else, it’s magic today, you know…
It’s like everything else, it’s magic today, you know…

Chanson

The fox and the hare and the badger and the bear and the birds in the green wood tree….

He was rather unusually dressed and

And the sooner Babylon comes to its senses about herbs the sooner it will change and stop getting frenzied and paranoid about people and their relationships with nature – higher.

It’s like everything else, it’s magic today, you know…
It’s like everything else, it’s magic today, you know…

Chanson

Now John Barley Corn he put up a green blade and he soon surprised them all
Ah hah my boys he soon surprised them all grew
John Barley Corn he grew tall he grew strong
Ah hah my boys he soon surprised them all

Tarzan Screech

 

 

Greensleeves (cont)
Well, I will pray to God on high,
that thou my constancy mayst see,
And that yet once before I die,
Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me.

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves my one delight
Greensleeves my heart of gold,
And who but my Lady Greensleeves

WHISPERING

And here’s a starling giving its impersonation of the bird you’ve just heard.
Chip chip chip cherry erry erry
Chip cherooo

Everything normal.
Everything working perfectly.

Chanson

Oh wasn’t that a catastrophe to happen in the old oak tree mm-hmmm.

Chanson

So I lean my bag against an oak thinking it was a trusted tree
But first it bent and then it broke
And so did my true love to me.

His King flies away from you mortals. He’s not of the earth. He is of the sky. He flaps his wings like a Zerit bird. Flaps his wings like a Zerit bird. He goes to the sky. He goes to the sky…

I used to see the old birds, little blackbirds and pigeons starlings and that the little birds having a feed and thought I’m not going to shoot little birds, I’d shut my eyes and walk by but if ever I did shoot them I’d always shoot

Chanson

Away birds way…

Away birds way…

I’ll up with my clackers and knock them down backwards

Away birds way…

 

And then the bombing started and it was all changed. Everybody changed. The world started to change all around…

I said can you hear cuckoo, I says no I can’t hear no cuckoo.

I don’t know where I originated from
I don’t know where I originated from
But he’s been sound in our family for years and years and years.

Don’t you ever wish you could get out and see the world?
Nope, no inclination at all for it.

Chanson

Now I comes from the country, my name it be Giles and I’ve travelled a hundred and twenty odd miles

 

I’d never known him to know where he was going until he was coming back and then he’d swear blind half the time that it wasn’t him that went in the first place.

That’s a woman of seventy years of age singing that.
They want none of them songs with a meaning.
Them songs of years ago were wrote with a meaning like Genevie, like a book, not none of them Tickle-me-Timothy-quick, nowadays these damn mess of songs are no good at all, I don’t like them anyhow.

It’s like everything else nowadays. They’ve got no patience.
More straight forwards than it is today.
It’s like everything else, it’s like magic today, you know?

Chanson

The fox and the hare and the badger and the bear and the birds in the green wood tree…

 

And the thought kept coming back into his head again about these stones and they thought, we’ll go and have a look and he kept going all round these places having a look at these stones and suddenly he found these stones

I brought mine up to know how to do it too, they’d go down to the brooks and get the water cress.

Chanson

Down to the sea

The river it is flowing flowing and flowing

The river it is flowing
Down to the sea
Oh mother carry me
A child I’ll always be
Oh mother carry me
Down to the sea…
etc

We find it very very nice…
Healthy and we’ve got our own water and we haven’t got that mockers (muck) that you have from Birnigham and those places.

Chanson

And when the old maid got out to widdle (piss)
The little cod fish had a hole in the middle
Tommy Doddler

She wouldn’t give you the drippings from her nose.
She wouldn’t give you the drippings from her nose.

Q is for the quack quack, of the ducks in the pond.

Get back, get back you beastly brutish bounder, get back I tell you, get back you brute, get back I say.

Watch them Mr Ridley, watch them!

He concluded by saying that he was experiencing a unique sensation insofar that he was about to come face to face with aspects of nature never before experienced by man.

Russian Cosmonaut : !!!!!!!!

 

I see the earth. Visibility, good.

Don’t you ever wish you want to get out and see the world?
Nope, no inclination at all.
Don’t you ever wish you want to get out and see the world?
Nope, no inclination at all.

I’m quite happy and quite contented to keep serving the people.

Chanson

I bought myself a hen

And a funny old hen was she
I fed her under the tree and my old hen fed me.

Chanson

Now on that hill there was a tree such a tree you never did see,
A tree on a hill and the hill stood still and the green grass grew all around…
And the green grass grew all around, my boys, and the green grass grew all around

As we thought and I still think it was the same thing, I thought it was the devil.

Yonder comes the devil with his pitch-fork and shovel he was digging up potatoes in the turnpike road.

And this thing grew, in a matter of seconds we thought it was a rabbit as we had seen it in the first place, it had long finger nails, long nails

Originally enough these were in fact to keep away the evil spirits and this has continued up until about 20 years ago when it became illegal, of course. But it is still done under cover of darkness. And people do continue this practice in outlying regions and areas.

Voice of the man with the basket on his head:
Goodbye my best friends.
Goodbye my best friends.
Goodbye my best friends.
Goodbye my best friends.

 

FIN

CREDITS:

Oh he was the salt of the earth, there’s no doubt about that.
Oh he was the salt of the earth, there’s no doubt about that.
Oh he was the salt of the earth, there’s no doubt about that.
Oh he was the salt of the earth, there’s no doubt about that.

Men like that can’t be replaced.

When he dies ….