Isi and Mitch discuss the final courses of a pub menu; unhealthy halloumi sticks, slimy onion rings, French/Belgian fries vs English/Dutch chips, jacket potatoes, Mary Rose sauce, sticky toffee pudding and... spotted dick?
Before all of this, let Mitch and Isi treat you to an uplifting, school assembly song...
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Intro
Isi:
[0:22] Hello.
Mitch:
[0:23] Hiya, welcome to the Easy English Podcast episode 61.
Isi:
[0:28] Wow. Do we always want to say welcome?
Mitch:
[0:31] Well, until we reach 100, I always consider that people are still stumbling onto us.
Isi:
[0:37] God, and everyone now, 39 more episodes. I would like to know if there's a Monday morning song that you can sing for us? It's Monday morning, we have a coffee, our second actually, and I want you to sing a typical song, that you would sing to kids going to school like, yay! Monday morning!
Mitch:
[0:54] hat's exact... I wasn't thinking exactly that, but I was thinking... the first thing I thought was this one song; morning has broken... very sad. And then I thought what's actually more uplifting and upbeat? And I thought what are the songs we sang at school assembly? Did you have an assembly before school started
Isi:
[1:16] No, not every day, with special occasions, yes. I think I only did it in primary school, those assemblies. But do you sing a song, then? I don't think so, no. And your song was quite depressive I have to say.
Mitch:
[1:27] Yeah yeah, but we we didn't sing that song at school assembly, that's why I thought, what did we sing at school assembly? Because it was always a way to get the kids up and running, early in the morning, because I mean early in the morning, we started at nine. (That's holidays.) And so, the only songs can really remember us singing, are... before I get into the one I was thinking of, we had this bizarre one called '20th century highway man', which was an eco-song we'd sing. And it was like about a guy, who's like, working for a big business destroying the Amazon. (Okay.) And it's like; 20th century highway man... he's the 20th century something something man. And then the chorus goes; stand and deliver, he's heading for the Amazon River. He'll steal from the forest, he'll steal from the trees, He gets what he wants and he wants what he see. (Why?) I don't know Okay, but forget that It just came in my head.
Isi:
[2:25] That's what you sang. In the assembly room?
Mitch:
[2:27] Yeah, yeah. (What?!) 20th century highwayman. It's like a Bob Dylan song.
Isi:
[2:33] Wait... is that to educate children about colonialism?
Mitch:
[2:37] I think it's more about eco...
Isi:
[2:39] Not that Britain was in the Amazon.
Mitch:
[2:42] No, the empire never quite reached that part of the world.
Isi:
[2:46] Would have been better to have a song about...
Mitch:
[2:50] About what? Bringing slaves over?
Isi:
[2:52] No. Well, if you want to do the make... The next generation feel the guilt thing, which is good, I think. at least do it properly, with a region that you did colonise. Colonise?
Mitch:
[3:09] Colonise, yeah?
Isi:
[3:10] Colonise. But now... well, anyway.
Mitch:
[3:13] Anyway, you want to wake up the kids. So the song we actually sung, which I remember, and you probably also did it, because I think... it's almost a hymn, but it's not religious or anything. And it was; If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land. I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning, I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land... la la la la, la la la la, la la la la, second verse, la la la, If I had a bell, I'd ring it in the morning, (Ding ding ding ding.) I'd ring it in the evening, (Ding ding ding ding.) all over this land, I'd ring out a danger, I'd ring out a warning, I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters, all... and I'm just... I'm doing like a globe, I'm doing jazz-hands while sort of doing a. .. (Yeah, Mitch is dancing.) I'm doing a jazz-hands while sort of like drawing the outline of the world, with my hands. I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land.
Isi:
[4:22] Okay, third one, come on.
Mitch:
[4:24] I don't know what that instrument is.
Isi:
[4:26] If I had a song.
Mitch:
[4:27] Oh, yeah?
Isi:
[4:28] I'd sing it in the morning, I'd sing it in the evening, all over this land, I don't know... how's that melody? I'd sing out danger.
Mitch:
[4:37] Danger, yeah. I'd sing it out of warning.
Isi:
[4:41] I'd sing out of... What? I'd song off out of warning.
Mitch:
[4:44] I'd song off out of warning. That's a tongue twister.
Isi:
[4:48] I'd sing out love between...
Mitch:
[4:50] Birds and my sisters, all... jazz-hands over this land.
Isi:
[4:54] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Ah, well that is a morning song.
Mitch:
[5:07] Don't you feel awake now?
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