I love this song, probably my second favorite of Dury's after 'My Old Man.' This song just captures exactly what childhood was like. Spending the holidays misbehaving, taking small victories in the world of adults, and blagging your way out of trouble. 'With the Razzle in my pocket as the second prize' is a line that, to me, just sums up how small your life is when you're a kid, but that at the time you thought everything was so big and important.
Oh and on a more intellectual note, has anyone noticed the strange rhyme scheme? It's two groups of fourteen lines, sort of like a pair of sonnets, but the rhyme scheme is nothing like the sonnets I was taught about when I was a kid. Still, Ian Dury is one great songwriter to come up with this. Definitely one of my favorite songs!
A great Ian Dury track. I too love the way he says 'with the razzle in my pocket as the second prize.' It's like a sense of achievement that he got away with it after all!
A great Ian Dury track. I too love the way he says 'with the razzle in my pocket as the second prize.' It's like a sense of achievement that he got away with it after all!
I love this song, probably my second favorite of Dury's after 'My Old Man.' This song just captures exactly what childhood was like. Spending the holidays misbehaving, taking small victories in the world of adults, and blagging your way out of trouble. 'With the Razzle in my pocket as the second prize' is a line that, to me, just sums up how small your life is when you're a kid, but that at the time you thought everything was so big and important.
Oh and on a more intellectual note, has anyone noticed the strange rhyme scheme? It's two groups of fourteen lines, sort of like a pair of sonnets, but the rhyme scheme is nothing like the sonnets I was taught about when I was a kid. Still, Ian Dury is one great songwriter to come up with this. Definitely one of my favorite songs!
A great Ian Dury track. I too love the way he says 'with the razzle in my pocket as the second prize.' It's like a sense of achievement that he got away with it after all!
A great Ian Dury track. I too love the way he says 'with the razzle in my pocket as the second prize.' It's like a sense of achievement that he got away with it after all!