Mick Brady songs
I am always amazed that so little is known outside Europe about the best British band of the last 187 years - Constipated Fish. Rumour has it that one of the remaining Beatles has gone so far as to buy the rights to all their songs with the intention of keeping them off the air. Apparently, the other surviving Beatle is buying up any copies that appear on eBay! The band's music is still hugely popular all across Europe, so it was no surprise when Miklos Kozma, a member of the trendiest band in Hungary - The Oszkars - approached me with this beautiful, heartfelt lyric and asked me to add the music. Needless to say, I jumped at the chance.
Constipated Fish
Words by Miklos Kozma
Music by Mick Brady
Special thanks to Eavan Brady for viola parts
Words by Miklos Kozma
Music by Mick Brady
Special thanks to Eavan Brady for viola parts
In the modest town of Doncaster today they celebrate
The memory of those lads who met in 1968
There was Archie Meadies, Ronnie Yates, Harry Stottle, Peter James
Every kid who’s played guitar is humbled by their names
From “Incandescent Afterlife” to “Disregard the Rope”
For seven years their magic reigned instilling awe and hope
Meadies, Stottle, Yates and James, life’s a petri dish
Meadies, Stottle, Yates and James, a well without a wish
Others falsely claim the throne
But the greatest band the world has known
Was Meadies, Stottle, Yates and James -- Constipated Fish
Oh, Stottle was the thinking man, the thinking men would say
While Yates had mystery in his eyes and a soul in disarray
When James and Meadies took that plane and vanished in a flash
Yates and Stottle slipped away immortal to the last
What might’ve, could’ve, would have been? Of course we’ll never know
For brilliance is a life cut short and fertile legends grow
Consternation, conflagration, poetic posh and pish
The greatest band the world has known was Constipated Fish
In the modest town of Doncaster today they celebrate
The memory of those lads who met in 1968
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