Chris’s songs over the last 20 years or more have been a reminder to find the comic absurdity in many aspects of our society and the campaigns to change it for the better. Reminding us that in being able to laugh at ourselves, we can then feel freer to experiment and enjoy a culture with more complex forms of expression being understood.
He’s gone from risking his own skin walking into dodgy far-right pubs to sing songs making fun of racism, to writing songs making light of the head spinning speed in the 90s in which someone could go from leafleting against fox hunting to being asked to help liberate beagles from a laboratory. He’s poked fun at the history of land ownership and past along tales of drug smugglers robbing their van back from the RUC.
Ideally when it’s fully finished it will contain illustrations, a finished bonus song fan tribute and more commentary from the Captain which I hope to glean from him at some point on a podcast or in conversation.
If you’d like to help illustrate or write the bonus fan tribute hit me up at theosladehome@gmail.com
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lyrics
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
He could do things, other sheepdogs could not do
He could do things, he was good with a pool cue
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
He could do things, other sheepdogs could not do
He could do things, he was good with a pool cue
He was a pool shark sheepdog, he went into pubs and pretended to be shit at pool.
And then he played the locals, he got them into thinking he was shit.
And because he was a dog, they easily believed he was crap
Because he didn’t have any thumbs, so he wasn’t very good at holding the cue or at least that’s what he made them think.
Bob the amazing, bob the genius sheepdog
He was an amazing, he was a pool shark sheepdog
He could do things, he could do predictive text
He could do things, other sheepdogs could not do
On a Wednesday, he was playing the farmers in a pub in Skipton.
He let them win a few frames, he let them win a lot of games,
He made them think, that he was shite.
Then he suggested, putting £20 quid on the last frame.
And the farmers laughed to see such fun.
A foolish border collie, so easily to be parted from his 20 pounds.
And Bob let them put their money down on the side of the table.
He let him pot a couple of yellows.
But then Bob, he took control of the game.
He 8 balled them, and then he potted the black.
He took the 40 quid and he fucked off out the back.
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
He was an amazing, he was a genius sheepdog
When he got home, he went a bit mental
He went a bit chicken oriental, radio rental
He got his 40 quid and he invested it in crack
As a dog he swapped it out the back
It made him laugh to see such fun
And then the farmer came home the next day
And he found a note on the kitchen table
In very scratchy looking paw writing
It looked like the writing of a border collie
And the note was from bob and it said…
Dear farmer, I’m too amazing for you
Too amazing, you’ve taught me too much stuff
It’s like lawnmower man, explained bob
You’ve taught me too much stuff and now I’m too clever for you and I’ve left you behind
And by the end of the note you will find, that I took your range rover…
I took it over
I took your bank card, I know your passwords to everything
Even your Netflix, even your Netflix account
And now I’m shagging your wife, and now I’m shagging her leg, your wife’s leg is covered in sheepdog smeg
And the farmer was upset, he was filled with regret as he saw the note from Bob
He thought how disloyal, a man’s best friend has proved to be extremely disloyal
He’s driven off with my wife, he thought about ending his life.
He ended up watching a lot of day time tv everyday, the farmer he watched,
He watched daytime tv until he ended up in a phone box opposite the mosque, smoking rocks.
And then who came past, but Bob
In a range rover, with the farmers wife looking so happy and glamorous
It was one too many things for the farmer, he sank down to the floor
But as he passed out, there was something he heard in his mind
A catchy refrain, something evil that seeped into his brain
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
Bob the amazing, he was an amazing sheepdog
He could do things, other people could not do
He could do things, he was good with a pool cue
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
Bob the amazing, bob the amazing sheepdog
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