ZombieCake
Well-known member
You know the tune. The last verse may be a bit cryptic: References to Jane are to Jane Brookes who the kind people of Shepton Mallet had murdered for Witchcraft a couple of hundred years or so ago. Nancy refers to Nancy Camel who has a cave of the same name (Tony Oldham has survey in his book as well as MCG original) on East Mendip and allegedely a witch who had a certain reputation in Croscombe (village near Shepton, on Mendip). UBSS articles and the MCG News one on Witchcraft and ritual protection marks refer. 'themm refers to speleothem. Butcombe is a local brew. Please alter / add / or whatever as it's something to start with and not quite perfect. Enjoy!
Is this a real dig?
It this just Mendippy
Caught in a mudslide
No escape from mud-ality
Turn on your light,
Look down in the depths and pee,
I'm just a cave boy, I need no survey here,
'Cause I dig it here, mine it now
Mine it high, dig it low,
Anyway the lode goes doesn't really matter to me, to me.
Mama, just broke some stal,
Hit my hat against a 'themm
With my headlamp, now it's broke
Mama, the trip had just begun,
But now the Bang's blown it all away
Cavers, ooh,
Didn't mean to call the MRO,
If not hauled out by early dawn tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as none'll find the tatters.
Too late, my dig has gone,
dropped carbide down the pitch
Now it's stinking all the time.
Goodbye all, the pub says I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and drink the ale.
Cavers, ooh (anyway the lode goes),
Don't like Hunter's pie,
I wish I'd never seen this Somerset at all.
I see a dishevelled caver of a man
Scaramoosh, scaramoosh let's hope the big bang goes
Hiltis and det cord,
Very, very deafening me.
No: Swillies-Oh!: No: Swillies-Oh!
Filled my wellies (Filled my wellies)
Filled my wellies (Filled my wellies)
Filled my wellies, Really smelly now
Mendippico ? o ? o .
I'm just a caver boy, nobody loves me.
Just a caver boy from a Mendip Family,
Spare him time from this beaurocracy
Easy mine, easy cave, will you let me dig?
This digger, will not let him dig (Let him dig!)
This digger, will not let him dig (Let him dig!)
This digger, will not let him dig (Let him dig!)
Will not let you dig (Let me dig!)
Never, never let you cave
Never mine again, oh.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh M C G, Oh CSCC (M C G, oh let me dig.)
CSCC has Goatchurch put aside for me, for me, for me.
{Head banging guitar solo....}
So you think you can kill Jane and look me in the eye?
So you can think you can dig all this without a lie?
Oh, Nancy, don't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta out, just get Nancy right outta here
(Oh, yeah, oh yeah)
Butcombe really matters
Anyone can see,
Butcombe really matters
Mendip really matters to me
Anywhere the survey goes.
Is this a real dig?
It this just Mendippy
Caught in a mudslide
No escape from mud-ality
Turn on your light,
Look down in the depths and pee,
I'm just a cave boy, I need no survey here,
'Cause I dig it here, mine it now
Mine it high, dig it low,
Anyway the lode goes doesn't really matter to me, to me.
Mama, just broke some stal,
Hit my hat against a 'themm
With my headlamp, now it's broke
Mama, the trip had just begun,
But now the Bang's blown it all away
Cavers, ooh,
Didn't mean to call the MRO,
If not hauled out by early dawn tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as none'll find the tatters.
Too late, my dig has gone,
dropped carbide down the pitch
Now it's stinking all the time.
Goodbye all, the pub says I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and drink the ale.
Cavers, ooh (anyway the lode goes),
Don't like Hunter's pie,
I wish I'd never seen this Somerset at all.
I see a dishevelled caver of a man
Scaramoosh, scaramoosh let's hope the big bang goes
Hiltis and det cord,
Very, very deafening me.
No: Swillies-Oh!: No: Swillies-Oh!
Filled my wellies (Filled my wellies)
Filled my wellies (Filled my wellies)
Filled my wellies, Really smelly now
Mendippico ? o ? o .
I'm just a caver boy, nobody loves me.
Just a caver boy from a Mendip Family,
Spare him time from this beaurocracy
Easy mine, easy cave, will you let me dig?
This digger, will not let him dig (Let him dig!)
This digger, will not let him dig (Let him dig!)
This digger, will not let him dig (Let him dig!)
Will not let you dig (Let me dig!)
Never, never let you cave
Never mine again, oh.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh M C G, Oh CSCC (M C G, oh let me dig.)
CSCC has Goatchurch put aside for me, for me, for me.
{Head banging guitar solo....}
So you think you can kill Jane and look me in the eye?
So you can think you can dig all this without a lie?
Oh, Nancy, don't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta out, just get Nancy right outta here
(Oh, yeah, oh yeah)
Butcombe really matters
Anyone can see,
Butcombe really matters
Mendip really matters to me
Anywhere the survey goes.