Nah. Ginger provides a plethora of rhyming slang in this piece.
It's more or less a song of his family situation the year Cream broke up. Great band, but it didn't really bring the bacon home. The Baker didn't make the bread, so to speak. Most of the money stayed at the record company, as always.
So 'ere it goes:
"Dainties in a jam-jar.. " and so on is 'bout 'is car (jam-jar = bad car) drugs and economical situation.
"Winter leader Lou is growin' 'Ampsteads in the North." - she'd getting' teeth (Hampstead heath = teeth)
"Betty B's been wearin' daisies since the twenty-fourth." She needs new boots - daisy roots
"There's a tea-leaf about in the family,
Full of nothin' their fairy tale." Ginger himself - a rock star, but also Tea leaf - thief because of his bad habits, living in the fast lane, but he needs to care for his family - not so easy.
"Take a butcher's..." Take a look , butcher's hook
I could explain it all but it's more fun if you google every slang phrase - so funny, so brilliant, so bitter-sweet. Ginger is at his best very under-rated lyricist, but he uses lots and lots of rhyming slang which makes his songs a little hard to understand.
Nah. Ginger provides a plethora of rhyming slang in this piece. It's more or less a song of his family situation the year Cream broke up. Great band, but it didn't really bring the bacon home. The Baker didn't make the bread, so to speak. Most of the money stayed at the record company, as always.
So 'ere it goes: "Dainties in a jam-jar.. " and so on is 'bout 'is car (jam-jar = bad car) drugs and economical situation. "Winter leader Lou is growin' 'Ampsteads in the North." - she'd getting' teeth (Hampstead heath = teeth) "Betty B's been wearin' daisies since the twenty-fourth." She needs new boots - daisy roots "There's a tea-leaf about in the family, Full of nothin' their fairy tale." Ginger himself - a rock star, but also Tea leaf - thief because of his bad habits, living in the fast lane, but he needs to care for his family - not so easy.
"Take a butcher's..." Take a look , butcher's hook
I could explain it all but it's more fun if you google every slang phrase - so funny, so brilliant, so bitter-sweet. Ginger is at his best very under-rated lyricist, but he uses lots and lots of rhyming slang which makes his songs a little hard to understand.