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Thursday, 29 October 2020

Rock on in Peace: Rock on to Glory. RIP Bobby Ball


The Beaker Folk may twang their braces

Archdruid: Rock on, 

All: Tommy.

Archdruid: Rock on, 

All: Tommy.

Archdruid: Rock on, 

All: Tommy.
 
Archdruid: Rock on, 

All: Tommy.
 
Hnaef: I'm unfamiliar with this Northern Working Class humour. Is that all he did?

Archdruid: Hnaef, Hnaef, Hnaef. O deprived posh boy. This is all that is necessary. But let me tell you that Bobby Ball will now be the Patron Saint of Preachers' Nightmare Dreams. I refer you to the Chronicles of Last of the Summer Wine 22:7. In which Bobby plays "Lenny from the Pickle Factory" and Tommy Cannon plays "Man in the Boat". Lenny is convinced that he is receiving messages from Above. The news spreads. A crowd gathers to hear his prophecies.... 


...and nothing comes. Lenny's "voice" has left him in the lurch. 
At 4am in a preacher's mind, this scenario plays over and over again. And so we remember Bobby today. Mourn the passing of a Northern legend. And pray to avoid the fate of Lenny from the Pickle Factory.

Hnaef: OK. Then... Rock on Tommy!

Archdruid: Rock on, 

All: Tommy.

Archdruid: Rock on, 

All: Tommy.

Archdruid: Rock on, 

All: Tommy.
 
Archdruid: Rock on, 

All: Bobby.

Archdruid: Rock on in peace.

All: Rock on to glory.
 
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1 comment:

  1. UKViewer7:55 am, October 30, 2020

    Canon and Ball sounds like a Cathedral Clergy love in. But they were a tonic for us in the 70's and 80's. In those more innocent days, when humour was allowed to roam free, no matter how much it offended the sensibilities of Cathedral Canon's or Colonel from Tonbridge Wells. But I don't remember the duo being offensive, just funny in a good way.

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