I got twenty acres and you got forty-three

[sovay]

Through a nearly normal chain of musical association beginning with the Moog Cookbook's "Basket Case" (1996) and progressing through Rasputina's "Why Don't You Do Right?" and "Brand New Key" (1996), spatch has just played me the Wurzels' "Combine Harvester" (1976) and I'm going to bed.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Oh yes! I love "Combine Harvester." Wakanomori introduced me to this when we first met. It was one of his father's favorites, and the Wurzels sing it in a Dorset accent, so it's perfect.

[sovay]

Oh yes! I love "Combine Harvester." Wakanomori introduced me to this when we first met. It was one of his father's favorites, and the Wurzels sing it in a Dorset accent, so it's perfect.

I'd never heard it before! I am contending with the possibility that it may be catchier than the other version. I think it's the jugband sound.

[asakiyume]

I think it really is! "Brand New Key" seemed pale by comparison.

Oi carn't wait to get me hands on err land!

[sovay]

I think it really is! "Brand New Key" seemed pale by comparison.

I finally listened to the original and I think I prefer both covers! I appreciate Melanie providing the scaffolding, though. (I did not realize she had died this January. Time is strange stuff.)