Huh, I knew it with "the money in the waistcoat.." and "my wife has moved to Jersey"... guess it got Americanized (although they didn't change "lino").
Another one of Squeeze's straightforward story songs. Love it.
I think he sings "Jersey", not "New Jersey". Jersey is sort-of part of the UK, a British island off the coast of Normandy--see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey. (And recall that King William I, who conquered England in 1066, was first Duke of Normandy).
I think he sings "Jersey", not "New Jersey". Jersey is sort-of part of the UK, a British island off the coast of Normandy--see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey. (And recall that King William I, who conquered England in 1066, was first Duke of Normandy).
@AHyacinthGirl I realize that I'm responding more than a decade after you wrote this but just for the record he's saying "My wife has moved to Guernsey, which is a British island." However, you're right because in the American single version they changed it to "Boston," of all things. Didn't help the record to chart here! Maybe they should have replaced "lino," since no American has ever heard a linoleum floor called that!
@AHyacinthGirl I realize that I'm responding more than a decade after you wrote this but just for the record he's saying "My wife has moved to Guernsey, which is a British island." However, you're right because in the American single version they changed it to "Boston," of all things. Didn't help the record to chart here! Maybe they should have replaced "lino," since no American has ever heard a linoleum floor called that!
Huh, I knew it with "the money in the waistcoat.." and "my wife has moved to Jersey"... guess it got Americanized (although they didn't change "lino").
Another one of Squeeze's straightforward story songs. Love it.
I think he sings "Jersey", not "New Jersey". Jersey is sort-of part of the UK, a British island off the coast of Normandy--see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey. (And recall that King William I, who conquered England in 1066, was first Duke of Normandy).
I think he sings "Jersey", not "New Jersey". Jersey is sort-of part of the UK, a British island off the coast of Normandy--see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey. (And recall that King William I, who conquered England in 1066, was first Duke of Normandy).
@AHyacinthGirl I realize that I'm responding more than a decade after you wrote this but just for the record he's saying "My wife has moved to Guernsey, which is a British island." However, you're right because in the American single version they changed it to "Boston," of all things. Didn't help the record to chart here! Maybe they should have replaced "lino," since no American has ever heard a linoleum floor called that!
@AHyacinthGirl I realize that I'm responding more than a decade after you wrote this but just for the record he's saying "My wife has moved to Guernsey, which is a British island." However, you're right because in the American single version they changed it to "Boston," of all things. Didn't help the record to chart here! Maybe they should have replaced "lino," since no American has ever heard a linoleum floor called that!