Fly tipping [FT]

1 week ago by @timfatchenMod · @blindkiwi

Liner Notes

#satire #folkrock
@blindkiwi (who among other nefarious deeds first convinced me to turn to Cigarbox Guitars and indeed gifted me a wiring loom and pups so how could I back out?) sent me this great lyric of the curse of our countryside, the upwardly mobile disposing of their downwardly mobile goods on the public tip aka back road verge. In mitigation, I hafta say one Council we pay rates to charges $100 to accept a mattress in the tip, though our local only charges $31. At the upper price, who is surprised that mattresses and other junk miraculously appear on roadsides?

@blindkiwi is putting up another version. But this attempt started in disaster, the digital recorder failing 0.5 seconds after the voice finished, the MIDI not turned on, a mess. I was left with a vocal that I wasn't game to do more than once, and a great piano part with a metronome going TOCKTOCKTOCK the whole way through! Normally I'd re-feed a MIDI recording into a patch without the metronome but...no MIDI recording. A #rubbish-recording. But wait! It's a #rubbish-song! or a song about rubbish, anyway. Perhaps I could exhume #Flying-Tadpole's-Travelling-Blues-Band from the crypt and set them to it, then no-one would even notice the ticktock, right? So I did. Alas, the metronome works for most of it except that bit where the singer got lost, the piano got lost, so all the johnny-come-lately's got lost too. Still and all, this is a #fast greatly #danceable bit of #jam or #toejam #rock-and-roll which I enjoyed immensely and took faaaarrrr too long over it, and the social #satire is pointed and superb. #cbg

BK: What can I say. Dirty blues, Rock and roll, Flying Tadpole gonna save your soul! Tim this so much better than what I had in mind. Love it 😎

Lyrics

FLY TIPPING [FT]
Words Copyright © 2025 Peter Murphy Music Copyright © 2025 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) All Rights Reserved APRA-AMCOS

INTRO
Fly tipping across the countryside
Fly tipping across the countryside
Chuck it down the back roads
Leave it where it lies

V1
Holly had a mattress, Jimmy had a fridge (x2)
Me, I had a lounge suite
And we threw them off a bridge

CHORUS
Cos we’re fly tipping across the countryside (fly tipping, fly fly tipping)
Fly tipping, your laws don’t apply (fly tipping, fly fly tipping)
Fly tipping it’s free for you and me (fly tipping, fly fly tipping)
Everywhere we go, we leave our shit for you to see (fly tipping, fly fly tipping)
Fly tipping across the countryside
Fly tipping across the countryside
Chuck it down the back roads
Leave it where it lies

BRIDGE
I believe in freedom and use words like tyranny
The norms of society they don’t apply to me
I don’t believe in gubberment or your democracy
My faith is what absolves me of responsibility

V2
Johnny renovated, Mary helped him pack (2)
Filled their trailer to the brim
Then dropped it by the tracks

CHORUS

V3
Every night I’m out there, Emptying my truck (x)
I am a sovereign citizen
And you can all get [UGH]….

CHORUS

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