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Deep and crisp and evil.
Dec. 7th, 2010 09:09 amI was striding manfully across the countryside the other day, being generally impressed by how the snow lay round about deep and crisp and even. It was one of those lovely chill mornings - a frost had created a crust of ice over the snow meaning that every step I took made a satisfying scrunch scrunch scrunch noise, and a cold wintery sun shone through a mist which hung over the world.
It was a fesh snowfield, and there are few more satisfying things in life than being the first person to walk across fresh snow generally marking your territory with your footprints. Of course, I might have been the first person to walk across it, but by no means the first thing as the snow was dotted with the footprints of bunny rabbits who'd obviously come out for a bit of a scamper and maybe to play snowballs or build a snow-carrot - whatever it is rabbits do - and as I walked I found myself humming Run, rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run. Here comes the famrer with his gun, gun, gun. And as I got to the line Bang, bang, bang, bang goes the farmer's gun I stopped and started wondering instead just precisely what sort of gun the farmer was supposed to be using. Take your normal farmer, like Tony Martin. His weapon of choice is the double-barrelled shotgun, which would only go bang bang. It could be that the farmer in the song is using two shotguns, one in each hand, but the lyrics are very clear on the singular 'gun'. The staccato repetition of bang bang bang bang indicates the reload time is short, so a bolt-action hunting rifle is also unlikely, so the only candidates left are either some sort of handgun, or an automatic weapon of some kind.
When you stop and think about song lyrics it's surprising how often they turn out to be quite worrying, because Farmer Brown in the song is plainly a complete maniac. Hunting rabbits with a Desert Eagle or a Tommy Gun? People like that should be locked up.
It was a fesh snowfield, and there are few more satisfying things in life than being the first person to walk across fresh snow generally marking your territory with your footprints. Of course, I might have been the first person to walk across it, but by no means the first thing as the snow was dotted with the footprints of bunny rabbits who'd obviously come out for a bit of a scamper and maybe to play snowballs or build a snow-carrot - whatever it is rabbits do - and as I walked I found myself humming Run, rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run. Here comes the famrer with his gun, gun, gun. And as I got to the line Bang, bang, bang, bang goes the farmer's gun I stopped and started wondering instead just precisely what sort of gun the farmer was supposed to be using. Take your normal farmer, like Tony Martin. His weapon of choice is the double-barrelled shotgun, which would only go bang bang. It could be that the farmer in the song is using two shotguns, one in each hand, but the lyrics are very clear on the singular 'gun'. The staccato repetition of bang bang bang bang indicates the reload time is short, so a bolt-action hunting rifle is also unlikely, so the only candidates left are either some sort of handgun, or an automatic weapon of some kind.
When you stop and think about song lyrics it's surprising how often they turn out to be quite worrying, because Farmer Brown in the song is plainly a complete maniac. Hunting rabbits with a Desert Eagle or a Tommy Gun? People like that should be locked up.
