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A young boy visiting relatives in Pascagoula, Mississippi catches a wild squirrel, which he sneaks into the First Self-Righteous Church during a Sunday service. When the squirrel escapes his box, it heads into the overalls of one of the other parishioners, who jumps in shock and discomfort (thinking "he had a Weed Eater loose in his Fruit of the Looms").
[10] [11] In Cockney rhyming slang it was adopted to mean "squirrel", [12] and it was the title of the autobiography of Cyril Fletcher. [13] The phrase continued to be used in later decades, but limited to those named Cyril or similar; the refrain of the song "Nice one Cyril, nice one son" was used as a tribute to another footballer Cyrille ...
"Wrapping Paper" is a song by the British rock group Cream. Bassist and singer Jack Bruce composed the music, with lyrics by Pete Brown. In 1966, Reaction Records released the song on their debut single, with "Cat's Squirrel" as the B-side. [3] It reached number 34 on the UK Singles Chart in 1966. [4]
The Squirrel" is a jazz standard composed by Tadd Dameron. [1] The song has been recorded by several notable artists including Miles Davis, who first recorded the song in 1951 (released in 2004 on the CD Birdland 1951). [2] Davis also recorded a studio version of the song which has been released on various compilation albums.
The resulting dispute over the song led to Sons of the Desert's exiting Epic in 1998. [19] Punk cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes also performed a cover of the song. Country music parodist Cledus T. Judd recorded a parody, titled "Goodbye Squirrel", about two hunters and their unsuccessful attempts to kill a squirrel.
Lyrically, the song's narrative is loosely based around the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots of the 1940s, a series of racially-motivated assaults by American servicemen upon Mexican-American youths. Perry has cited the music of Lalo Guerrero , a Mexican-American musician associated with the pachuco and pachuca subcultures of the 1940s, as an ...
The song is about a character known as "Eddie the Breakdancer"; Whelan disliked it, feeling that the band did not perfect it in the studio. [38] "24 Hour Party People" deals with people on the dole who prefer partying to looking for work. [67] Shaun Ryder felt that he found his voice with the song, instead of writing what others expected him to ...
The lyrics use an AABCCB rhyming pattern on the verses, and ABAB on the chorus. The song's verses are in C Dorian. Verse one consists of four lines, each using the chord pattern Cm-B ♭ /C-Cm-F/C-Cm-Gm7-Cm. At the chorus, the song modulates to the key of G major, with a chord pattern of Am-D7-G-Em used three times before ending on Am-D7-Gm. [10]