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Garden Party Lyrics
Garden Party held today, invites call the debs to play,
Social climbers polish ladders, wayward sons again have fathers,
Edgy eggs and queing cumbers, rudely wakened from their slumber,
Time has come again for slaughter on the lawns by still Cam Waters.
Champagne corks are firing at the sun again
Swooping swallows chased by violins again
Straafed by Strauss they sulk in crumbling eaves again.
Apertifs consumed en masse display their owners on the grass
Couples loiter in the cloisters, social leeches quoting Chaucer.
Doctor's son a parson's daughter where why not and should they oughta
Please don't lie on the grass, unless accompanied by a fellow,
May I be so bold as to suggest Othello.
Punting on the Cam is jolly fun they say
Beagling on the downs Oh please come they say
Rugger is the tops a game for men they say.
I'm punting, I'm beagling, I'm wining, reclining, I'm rucking, I'm fucking
So welcome, it's a party
Angie chalks another blue, mother smiles she did it too
Chitters chat and gossips lash, posers pose pressmen flash.
Smiles polluted with false charm, locking onto Royal arms
Society columns now ensured, return to mingle with the crowds
Oh what a crowd.
Social climbers polish ladders, wayward sons again have fathers,
Edgy eggs and queing cumbers, rudely wakened from their slumber,
Time has come again for slaughter on the lawns by still Cam Waters.
Swooping swallows chased by violins again
Apertifs consumed en masse display their owners on the grass
Couples loiter in the cloisters, social leeches quoting Chaucer.
Please don't lie on the grass, unless accompanied by a fellow,
May I be so bold as to suggest Othello.
Beagling on the downs Oh please come they say
Rugger is the tops a game for men they say.
So welcome, it's a party
Chitters chat and gossips lash, posers pose pressmen flash.
Society columns now ensured, return to mingle with the crowds
Oh what a crowd.
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Isn't this song about Fish's disgust with the upper social class?
I would not call it disgust. I would call it a pretty accurate description of the people who are supposed to be "upper" class. I would call it a first class observation of the behaviour of the people who believe that public image is more important than the feelings of the individual members of the family. "Social climbers polish ladders. Wayward sons again have fathers". It's not rocket science. Fish has no gripe agains the upper classes. Just pretentiousness
I would not call it disgust. I would call it a pretty accurate description of the people who are supposed to be "upper" class. I would call it a first class observation of the behaviour of the people who believe that public image is more important than the feelings of the individual members of the family. "Social climbers polish ladders. Wayward sons again have fathers". It's not rocket science. Fish has no gripe agains the upper classes. Just pretentiousness