The Bunting Song

My god! I can't believe how so many TGTB&TQ songs have no comments on them - the album is amazing!

Anyway.... this woulod appear to be set in wartime England (I know that technically the album is abot noughties London, though).

The woman in the first verse is hanging out pieces of bunting she made herself for a party. The subject of this song (female) has moved to the country for a better life. A male relation of hers is fighting in a war and is waiting for him to return..... but he never did :(.

(The last verse is perhaps being told from the dead soldier's viewpoint).

Amendments - replace wartime England with now, thinking about the war in Iraq/Iran

I think these are better:

Pull out the bunting She made 'em one by one Hang 'em in the trees Or they'll blow away

Move to the country The town has told its tale You'll be forgotten When the autumn leaves, they fell

And the whole place Didn't look the same that night They put a party on and waited For the sunlight to recall All the days are a ticking gone

Bye Baby Bunting All England wants you home Away in the hills Where the wild things, they roam

So I'll never know why She made 'em one by one Hanging in the trees 'Til a breeze, it comes

And the country Didn't look the same that day They put a party on ....... To a day, a ticking gone