Deep North Songtext
von The Scaffold

Do you ever get the feeling...
Yes
...That you′re being followed?
Yes, by the Crown Prince!
Of where?
I don't know. Sunderland. Sunderland!

No, but I often get that feeling
Yeah?
That on warm summer evenings such as this...
When trees sway to the tune of birds
...That I′ve a monkey on my back
Odd. That comes, I believe, of eating too
Many olives before committing adultery

Please, Father, I've committed adultery. Will you hear my confession?
I'd love to, but why tell me?
Well, you′re a Chinese waiter, aren′t you?
Don't let this stethoscope fool you. Actually, I′m a runaway
Negro slave disguised as an artist's studio in Haskinson Street


Where did you run away from?
A vast olive plantation in Sunderland
Were you underfed?
Our main diet consisted of raw cotton and chicken Maryland
The beasts!
Were you ill-treated?
Daily by cruel overseers with tuneful banjos
Were you underfed?
Our main diet consisted of raw cotton and chicken Maryland

The beasts!
Were you ill-treated?
Daily by cruel overseers with tuneful banjos

I thought that sort of thing went out with Vera Lynn
No, the deep North is still a backwater
Of socialism and racial prejudice
Of witchcraft and rhythm and blues
Of guitar and pigstrokers
I′ll never go back

Then don't. Come away with us
Where to?
Back home to Nashville, Tennessee
The Liverpool of America

I′d love to, but how are we travelling there?
Simple. We are the Interstate Leapfrog Team

Over the top, over the bottom
The Leapfrog Team!


...When trees sway to the tune of birds
But I've a monkey on my back
Odd...