Ollie Hardy is Oliver Hardy, of the comedian team Laurel and Hardy. A gee-gee is what an English child would call a horse. It is known that Oliver Hardy loved race horses and owned some. So I read that bit as saying that either Hardy is seen in the song as owning or betting on a horse that "jumped a fence" (as in steeplechase racing), or perhaps that he is seen as riding such a horse (not a good idea for someone as overweight as Hardy). "A couple of pence" = the money he hoped to make off that. I couldn't find any specific historical reference out there to some real incident involving Hardy and a horse, but maybe it is there to be found.
While the song could be all about drugs, I tend not to see that. some parts of it may point to that as a double entendre, but the bag of cement seems more topical to Watergate, and overall the impression I get is people reacting to trying times and McCartney wanting to get away and lay low from all that. Seen in that context, Hardy's horse-play is a diversion from what he should be doing, acting in films. Subconsciously, maybe McCartney felt he too was spending too much time on money matters regarding the breakup of the Beatles, Apple Records and the rest of it, but maybe that's trying to push interpretation too far.
Considering the abundance of drug referrences throughout the song, I would like to offer an alternative view on the Ollie Hardy verse. A ''gee-gee'' is slang for a horse, yes. And 'horse' can also be slang for Heroin, So perhaps, in the song, Ollie bought some 'H'. A 'fence' is also a term used to describe someone who sells goods illicitly. So maybe Ollie ''jumped'' the heroin dealer after an argument about the price. Hence the line ''and all for the sake of a couple of pence''.
Considering the abundance of drug referrences throughout the song, I would like to offer an alternative view on the Ollie Hardy verse. A ''gee-gee'' is slang for a horse, yes. And 'horse' can also be slang for Heroin, So perhaps, in the song, Ollie bought some 'H'. A 'fence' is also a term used to describe someone who sells goods illicitly. So maybe Ollie ''jumped'' the heroin dealer after an argument about the price. Hence the line ''and all for the sake of a couple of pence''.
Ollie Hardy is Oliver Hardy, of the comedian team Laurel and Hardy. A gee-gee is what an English child would call a horse. It is known that Oliver Hardy loved race horses and owned some. So I read that bit as saying that either Hardy is seen in the song as owning or betting on a horse that "jumped a fence" (as in steeplechase racing), or perhaps that he is seen as riding such a horse (not a good idea for someone as overweight as Hardy). "A couple of pence" = the money he hoped to make off that. I couldn't find any specific historical reference out there to some real incident involving Hardy and a horse, but maybe it is there to be found. While the song could be all about drugs, I tend not to see that. some parts of it may point to that as a double entendre, but the bag of cement seems more topical to Watergate, and overall the impression I get is people reacting to trying times and McCartney wanting to get away and lay low from all that. Seen in that context, Hardy's horse-play is a diversion from what he should be doing, acting in films. Subconsciously, maybe McCartney felt he too was spending too much time on money matters regarding the breakup of the Beatles, Apple Records and the rest of it, but maybe that's trying to push interpretation too far.
Considering the abundance of drug referrences throughout the song, I would like to offer an alternative view on the Ollie Hardy verse. A ''gee-gee'' is slang for a horse, yes. And 'horse' can also be slang for Heroin, So perhaps, in the song, Ollie bought some 'H'. A 'fence' is also a term used to describe someone who sells goods illicitly. So maybe Ollie ''jumped'' the heroin dealer after an argument about the price. Hence the line ''and all for the sake of a couple of pence''.
Considering the abundance of drug referrences throughout the song, I would like to offer an alternative view on the Ollie Hardy verse. A ''gee-gee'' is slang for a horse, yes. And 'horse' can also be slang for Heroin, So perhaps, in the song, Ollie bought some 'H'. A 'fence' is also a term used to describe someone who sells goods illicitly. So maybe Ollie ''jumped'' the heroin dealer after an argument about the price. Hence the line ''and all for the sake of a couple of pence''.