REQ: Pink FLoyd Lyrics (Ummagumma)
Martin Gregory
Does anyone know the `lyrics` to
"Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and
grooving with a pict?"
Ta!
Martin.
Stephen Cook
>Does anyone know the `lyrics` to
>"Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and
>grooving with a pict?"
>Ta!
>Martin.
That's a very cute question, I would say that the lyrics would be
anything you want them to be.
Stephen
Martin Gregory
(Stephen Cook) writes:
MG>Does anyone know the `lyrics` to
MG>"Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and
MG>grooving with a pict?"
> That's a very cute question,
:-)
>I would say that the lyrics would be
>anything you want them to be.
Do you mean that you don't think that that pict is actually saying real words?
I was hoping that either
1) There might be a Scottish person who could make the words out
or
2) Some TRUE Pink Floyd freak might have somehow got the script for it.
Martin
Dick Kaulfuss
: Does anyone know the `lyrics` to
: "Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and
: grooving with a pict?"
You mean Ron Geesin's bit at the end?
"And the wind cried Merry" (Sorry I don't remember any more)
Dick
Stephen Cook
>:-)
>or
In my enjoyment of Pink Floyd I don't recall any words to that song, I
haven't heard the song in years (someone helped themselves to some of my floyd
collection at a party one night) If there is someone with knowledge to these
lyrics I would not mind being enlightened either.
Stephen
Stephen Cook
>Do you mean that you don't think that that pict is actually saying real words?
>I was hoping that either
>1) There might be a Scottish person who could make the words out
>or
>2) Some TRUE Pink Floyd freak might have somehow got the script for it.
However, the thought struck me that there might be several versions and
that I might have only been exposed to the American version. I'm hope there is
a Pink Floyd Guru that can clear this matter.
David C. Fleming
In article <scook.83...@scook.ihhsr.fsu.edu>, sc...@scook.ihhsr.fsu.edu (Stephen Cook) writes:
>
> In my enjoyment of Pink Floyd I don't recall any words to that song, I
>haven't heard the song in years (someone helped themselves to some of my floyd
>collection at a party one night) If there is someone with knowledge to these
>lyrics I would not mind being enlightened either.
>
Some years ago, someone posted what purported to be the lyrics you're asking for.
They started, "Aye and a bit of mackerel..." and although they didn't make complete sense
(obviously) they did seem to credibly reproduce the pict's speil. I didn't save the file,
but I bet it could be found on some ftp site which speicalizes in Pink Floyd trivia.
Edwin Ostrin
This is from the FAQ of alt.music.pink-floyd, which originally cames from the
Echoes mailing list, which is, obviously, devoted to Pink Floyd. It comes
from part 2 of the 4 parts.
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07. "What does the Pict say in 'Several Species....'?"
First off, what *is* a Pict?
Pict : A member of a possbly non-Celtic people who once occupied
Great Britain, carried on continual border wars with the Romans, and
about the ninth century became amalgamated with the Scots.
As to what's being said, that's hard to say. But I think it's been accepted
that it's somebody (probably Waters) imitating a heavy Scottish accent. The
following (from posting by Brian Tompsett to rec.music.misc) is about the best
job I've seen at deciphering what's being said. It even makes a certain
amount of sense...
Aye an' a bit of Mackeral settler rack and ruin
ran it doon by the haim, 'ma place
well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side
and I cried, cried, cried.
The fear a fallen down taken never back the raize
and then Craig Marion, get out wi' ye Claymore out mi pocket
a' ran doon, doon the middin stain
picking the fiery horde that was fallen around ma feet.
Never he cried, never shall it ye get me alive
ye rotten hound of the burnie crew.
Well I snatched fer the blade O my Claymore
cut and thrust and I fell doon before him round his feet.
Aye!
A roar he cried
frae the bottom of his heart that I would nay fall but as dead,
dead as 'a can be by his feet; de ya ken?
...and the wind cried back.
Thank you.
[There has been much discussion on Echoes as to whether he is saying
"And the wind cried back" or "and the wind cried Mary" in that last
line.
Personally, "back" makes sense to me, from a literary point of view.
The speaker of the poem dies ("So how did he write the poem, eh?") and
the other person (Craig Marion?) cried out at his friend's death, but
there was no reply. Just the cries of the wind...
Your mileage probably differs. My opinion has not changed. -- djs]
[from Adam Winstanley:]
Regarding Several Species .... the most recent edition of the
Amazing Pudding has a short piece on that. Waters does most of it
but if you have one of those old record players that can do 16rpm
you can hear Gilmour in the middle somewhere and if you speed it
up to 78rpm you can hear Roger saying "Bring back my guitar." Ron
Geesin isn't on the track although he parodied it on a track
called "To Roger Waters, Where-ever you are."
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--
Edwin Ostrin University of Texas at Austin
Hofstadter's Law : It always takes longer than you expect, even when
you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
-- Douglas Hofstadter, _Godel,_Escher,_Bach_
Martin Gregory
>In article <scook.83...@scook.ihhsr.fsu.edu>, sc...@scook.ihhsr.fsu.edu
>(Stephen Cook) writes:
>>
>> In my enjoyment of Pink Floyd I don't recall any words to that song
This is interesting, because on the recording of Ummagumma that I have, it is
_only_ lyrics (the pict speaking, and the furry creatures responding - I'm
taking the liberty of calling that lyrics as well :-))
>Some years ago, someone posted what purported to be the lyrics you're asking
>for.
>They started, "Aye and a bit of mackerel..." and although they didn't make
>complete sense
>(obviously) they did seem to credibly reproduce the pict's speil. I didn't save
>the file,
>but I bet it could be found on some ftp site which speicalizes in Pink Floyd
>trivia.
Is there someone out there who knows where such a site is?
Ta,
Martin.
Keith MacDonald
[...]
>>but I bet it could be found on some ftp site which speicalizes in Pink Floyd
>>trivia.
>
>Is there someone out there who knows where such a site is?
>
From something recently posted to alt.music.pink-floyd,
+ Lyrics
Lyrics to Pink Floyd and solo albums are available via anonymous FTP
at "ftp.halcyon.com" in "pub/pink_floyd/lyrics"
Cheers,
Keith
..............................................................................
Keith MacDonald Help me paint a picture
ikb_...@ece.concordia.ca Then say it's a lie
Computer Engineering Tell me I'm mad!
Concordia University You're a fine one to decide...
Montreal, QC, CANADA - Marillion
Floyd Miller
From: dka...@hpqtdma.sqf.hp.com (Dick Kaulfuss)
Martin Gregory (mar...@qpsx.oz.au) wrote:
::: Does anyone know the `lyrics` to
::: "Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and
::: grooving with a pict?"
(Dick Kaulfuss (dka...@hpqtdma.sqf.hp.com) responded:
: "And the wind cried Merry"
That last lines is:
"And the wind cried Mary"
a Jimi Hendrix reference.
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Greg Yardley
>Subject: Re: DIS: Re: REQ: Pink FLoyd Lyrics (Ummagumma)
>Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 03:11:53 GMT
>Ta,
>Martin.
Enjoy.
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Greg Yardley
1B Fish Engineering
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Greg Yardley
>From: fl...@wmi.com (Floyd Miller)
>Subject: Re: REQ: Pink FLoyd Lyrics (Ummagumma)
>Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 13:36:24 GMT
>From: dka...@hpqtdma.sqf.hp.com (Dick Kaulfuss)
>Martin Gregory (mar...@qpsx.oz.au) wrote:
>::: Does anyone know the `lyrics` to
>::: "Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and
>::: grooving with a pict?"
>(Dick Kaulfuss (dka...@hpqtdma.sqf.hp.com) responded:
>: "And the wind cried Merry"
>That last lines is:
> "And the wind cried Mary"
>a Jimi Hendrix reference.
I've listened to this song hundreds of times and
Floyd is not making a Hendrix reference but is rather
saying 'And the wind cried BACK'. You are experiencing
that phenomenom called 'Gee, wouldn't it be *NEAT* if Floyd
made a tribute to Hendrix?'
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Greg Yardley [GBYA...@GAFF.watstar.uwaterloo.ca] comments:
> I've listened to this song hundreds of times and
> Floyd is not making a Hendrix reference but is rather
> saying 'And the wind cried BACK'. You are experiencing
> that phenomenom called 'Gee, wouldn't it be *NEAT* if Floyd
> made a tribute to Hendrix?'
These are just my thoughts. Don't be cruel.
I've re-listened a few times, it's actually been a while.
Perhpas, and probably, the Pict says "the wind cried back"
but with the accent and echo one's ear is easily confused
and mind is free to fill in the uncertainty. There was a
previous article that had some discussion this very controversy
(not that it's all the controversial). The jist was something
about "the wind cried back" being more literary - no real answer
to the anguished cries, just the wind. Well, I think that's what
Jimi was taking about - no answers, just the sound of the wind.
To Jimi it was calling a name.