Garden Party

Fish / Steve Rothery

Garden party held today
Invites call the debs to play
Social climbers polish ladders
Wayward sons again have fathers
Hello, Dad, hello, dad
Edgy eggs and queuing cumbers
Rudely wakened from their slumbers
Time has come again for slaughter
O on the lawns by still Cam waters
A slaughter, it's a slaughter

Champagne corks are firing at the sun again
Swooping swallows chased by violins again
Straafed by Strauss they sulk in crumbling eaves again
Oh God not again

Aperitifs consumed en masse
Display their owners on the grass
Couples loiter in the cloisters
social leeches quoting Chaucer

Doctor's son a parson's daughter
W where why not and should they oughta
Please don't lie upon the grass
Unless accompanied by a fellow
May I be so bold as to perhaps suggest Othello

Punting on the Cam is jolly fun they say
Beagling on the downs, oh please do come they say
Rugger is the tops, a game for men they say

I'm punting, I'm beagling, I'm wining, reclining, I'm rucking,I'm fucking
So welcome, it's a party

Angie chalks another blue
Mother smiles she did it too
Chitters chat and gossips lash
Posers pose, pressmen flash

Smiles polluted with false charm, locking on to Royal arms
Society columns now ensured, returns to mingle with the crowds
Oh what a crowd

Punting on the Cam, oh please do come they say
Beagling on the downs, oh please so come they say
Garden party held today they say
Oh please do come, oh please do come, they say.

Trivia about the song Garden Party by Marillion

On which albums was the song “Garden Party” released by Marillion?
Marillion released the song on the albums “Script for a Jester's Tear” in 1983, “Real to Reel” in 1984, “Live At The Borderline” in 1992, “The Best of Both Worlds” in 1997, “Marillionrochester” in 1998, “Mid-Price: A Singles Collection” in 1999, “Zodiac” in 1999, “Of Both Worlds” in 2000, “The Best of Marillion” in 2003, “Smoke” in 2006, “Tumbling Down The Years” in 2010, “Live in Montreal / Saturday” in 2010, “Live At The Forum 11 December 2014” in 2014, “A Sunday Night Above The Rain” in 2014, “Singles Night” in 2016, and “Live In Chile” in 2017.
Who composed the song “Garden Party” by Marillion?
The song “Garden Party” by Marillion was composed by Fish and Steve Rothery.

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