Broadford Bazaar lyrics

Artist	Jethro Tull
Album(s)	Nightcap: The Unreleased Masters 1973-1991

Lyrics

Dirty white caravans down our road, sailing
Vivas, cortinas, weaving in their wake
With hot, red-faced drivers, horns flattened, fists whaling
Putting trust in blind corners as they overtake

And it's ''all come willing now
Spend a shilling now
Stack up the back of your new motor-car.''
There's home-dyed woolens, and wee plastic ( cuillins )
[Blessed?] [cuchulains?]
[Cuchulain == mythical irish hero --- wee plastic cuchulains?]

[Jo-l@kcbbs.gen.nz (jo lobb) explains: broadford is a town on
Skye (where the road that passes dun ringill leaves the main
Road, incidentally) and skye's famous cuillin hills are nearby
I suppose tourists could be expected to buy wee plastic models
Of spectacular hills .... also, the cuillin hills are ''also
Known as the coolins or cuchullins, possibly after an ossianic
Hero...'', so maybe wee plastic model heroes do make sense, after
All.]

The day of the broadford bazaar

Out of the north, no oil-rigs are drifting
And jobs for the many are down to the few
Blue-bottle choppers, they visit no longer
Like flies to the jampots, they were just passing through

And it's ''all come willing now
Spend a shilling now
Stack up the back of your new motor-car''
Where once stood oil-rigs so phallic
There's only swear-words in gaelic
To say at the broadford bazaar

All kinds of people come down for the opening
Crofters and cottiers, white [wild?] settlers galore
[Crofter == farmer renting land]
[Cottier == farmer renting land]
And up on the hill, there's an old sheep that's dying
But it had two new lambs born just a fortnight before

And it's ''all come willing now
Spend a shilling now
Stack up the back of your new motor-car.''
We'll take pounds, francs and dollars from the well-heeled
And stamps from the green shield
The day of the broadford bazaar

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