Tuesday 17 March 2009, 12:47AM
The best dreadful song of all time
I’m rather late to the party, but I’ve become quite a YouTube fan.
After years of not once looking at it, I now find it to be the perfect way of getting through a late night work crisis. The formula is: 20 minutes of work, then five minutes search on YouTube for a video of an old half-remembered pop video or clip from a comedy programme. It really is remarkable: it is very rare that I can’t find what I’m looking for.
The song above always makes my smile, and not only because it is ludicrous. The Goombay Dance Band, a very poor man’s Boney M, topped the UK charts with ‘Seven Tears’ back in 1981. The lyrics are as frightful as one could hope for:
Here I stand, head in hand
Lonely, like a stranger on the shore
I can’t stand this feeling anymore
Day by day, this world’s all grey
And if dreams were eagles I would fly
But they ain’t and that’s the reason why.
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