And those who wrote And in the hoose hidden If chewing gum is chewed
Antidotes
The wacky sports teacher and the big fat bullies In the class he tolerates their dads on teams It's a carry on sir country
Antidotes
If chewing gum is chewed The chewer is pursued And in the back shed he's shot, became a dog’s bone
Had scales on his face before he even reached the Sports Minister Thanks to a country that’s so secondary modern
Antidote And dogs
And the weird Addams Family replica, schizophrene, vice film, hooded eyes Shoves people off the train and shouted at the show, rants
The driver always wants to go round and round and round the
There's no antidote
The poison is rising his skin is scaly to touch
Alright
(Jung Nev’s) Antidotes (The Marshall Suite)
Antidotes, and those who vote 1 Antidotes Antidotes
Antidotes, and those who vote Where chewing gum is chewed The chewer is pursued Seventies Every time So second-rate about it
Antidotes, and those who vote Antidotes, and those who vote Antidotes, and those who vote
Antidotes
No more inner city for you Antidotes and those who vote
Country
Carry on sir Carry on sir
If liberty is The sports teaching kook
At liberty's
The sports teacher's Antidotes
Antidotes and those who vote Miss you, miss you, miss you Antidotes and those who vote Antidotes Antidotes and those who vote Antidotes Antidotes and those who vote
Antidotes Miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you
Commentary
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“Jung Nev” is presumably a reference to Neville Wilding, The Fall’s guitarist at the time, who gets a writing credit on this song alongside Mark E. Smith and Simon Hitchcock, the co-producer of the album. Note that Wilding doesn’t get a credit for Anecdotes + Antidotes in B#, also off The Marshall Suite, which is credited to Mark E. Smith and Julia Nagle – it shares some of the same lyrics, but is musically quite different – and I treat it separately here as bzfgt’s The Annotated Fall did before me.
Footnotes
This line isn’t entirely clear: bzfgt’s The Annotated Fall rendered it as “and dozy votes”, noting a similarity with the lyrics to the 1943 novelty song, “Mairzy Doats”, by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston, the words to which are adapted from an older rhyme that children used to try and catch each other out. ↩︎
Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “(Jung Nev’s) Antidotes” [Archived]
The Annotated Fall: “Anecdotes + Antidotes in B#” [Archived]
Smith, Mark E. (2008). Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith. London: Penguin.
