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[Chorus] I just couldn't bear To dig it elsewhere I'm digging it round 'Cause I don't want it square And if you disagree It doesn't bother me That's the place where The hole's gonna be [Verse 3 ...
Songfacts®: This short novelty song - under two minutes in length - is a mini satire on the perceived class division of British society, something which was still fairly pronounced here in the early 60s. A workman is digging a hole when a man wearing a bowler hat - obviously a stereotype 1960s civil servant - walks up and proceeds to lecture ...
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The Hole in the Ground. " The Hole in the Ground " is a comic song written by Myles Rudge and composed by Ted Dicks. When recorded by Bernard Cribbins and released by EMI on the Parlophone label in 1962, it was a number nine hit in the UK Singles Chart. It remains the highest charting and most successful of Cribbins' hit singles, staying on the ...
Lyrics. There I was, a-digging this hole A hole in the ground, so big and sort of round it was There was I, digging it deep It was flat at at the bottom and the sides were steep When along, comes this bloke in a bowler which he lifted and scratched his head Well we looked down the hole, poor demented soul and he said Do you mind if I make a ...