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Leafblower

from Mind the Gap by Rebsie Fairholm

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A song about a leafblower ... the scourge of English middle-class suburbia.

Lawnmowers I can understand, but what is the point of leafblowers? They're environmentally unfriendly and their function is just to move debris from one place to another ... into the street or into someone else's garden, while stirring up dust and crap into the air and making a godawful whining noise. Unfortunately my neighbour enjoys using them, and he sometimes does this when I'm recording, which tends to make me rather cross.

If you go to my YouTube page you'll find the video version complete with authentic surreptitiously-collected footage of my neighbour in action.

lyrics

First day of autumn when the trees are turning gold
The man next door goes out to blow some leaves

(Leafblower) Early in the autumn when the leaves begin to fall
(Leafblower) My neighbour gets his blower out and drives me up the wall
(Leafblower) Humming and a-whining as the leaves fly through the air
(Leafblower) Spoiling my recordings till I'm going bloody spare

Can't use a rake like everybody else
Pointless powertools give him his kicks
Likes to piss the neighbours off by making loads of noise
Wasting electricity to get his fix

(Leafblower) Blowing to the left hand side and blowing to the right
(Leafblower) Blowing back the other way to shove them out of sight
(Leafblower) Blowing up the garden path and blowing down the street
(Leafblower) Leaves are splatted on my car and get stuck on my feet

First day of autumn when the trees are turning gold
Visions fly like leaves in front of me
Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
And the neighbour's hung from the chestnut tree

(Leafblower) Blowing under privet hedge and over flower bed
(Leafblower) I want to grab a garden spade and whack him round the head
(Leafblower) Blowing on the patio and blowing on the grass
(Leafblower) I'd like to take that blower thing and shove it up his arse

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from Mind the Gap, released July 1, 2007
(words and music by Rebsie Fairholm)

Rebsie: vocals, bass
Phideaux Xavier: guitars
Molly Ruttan: drums

Produced by Gabriel Moffat

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Rebsie Fairholm Cheltenham, UK

Haunting psych-folk inspired by the English landscape and the spirits of the ancestors. I play 12-string guitar, harp, piano, cornamuse, whistle and whatever else comes to hand. Now working full time with Marvin B Naylor.

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