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[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 ...
The video depicts the band and a zoot suited Steve Perry performing the song to a group of swing dancers and punk rockers in a smoky lounge, intercut with various shots of surrealist and occult imagery. Legendary disc jockey Al "Jazzbo" Collins has a brief cameo as one of the club's patrons, singing along to a verse from the song. [12]
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").
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.
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[51] The full title had a number of references; "Squirrel" is the nickname of Davis' mother, "G-Man" alludes to Bez's father being a police officer, "Twenty Four Hour Party People" is a synonym for the band, and "Plastic Face" and "Carnt Smile" were two truncated Salford expressions meaning "miserable bastards". [52]
Both the dance and the song had many variants. [3] The melody of the song may have originated in Ireland. Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains was on tour in Texas when he heard the song and immediately identified it as an old Irish folk melody, "The Mountain Top". [4] A number of possible meanings of the term "cotton-eyed" have been proposed.
Swift starts the song with the chorus that immediately makes her distaste for the subject of the song clear. “‘Cause, baby, now we got bad blood/ You know it used to be mad love/ So take a ...