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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 5 times, most recently at Robyn and Emma's house on October 23, 2020. He first performed it at WRNR on April 06, 2018, 2 years and 6 months earlier.

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Notes from Robyn on Patreon in 2020.
“Twee Beret” is also from 2017 - its happier side. I wanted to complete my McGuinn impersonation by double-tracking the vocal, but Perry The Lobster who engineered the track was having none of it: “You need to stop hiding behind yourself and relax into vocal intimacy” was his comment as The Edge pursued him along the corridors of Studio C with a bucket of mayonnaise....

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I love you in your vampire's wife
I love you in the rain
I love you holding hands with me
Down dismal English lanes

You're feisty like a jaguar
And tender like a brain
I love you in that twee beret
That caps your golden mane

I love that nothing phases you
Unless the walls are damp
I dig you in your onesies
And I love the way you vamp

Around my autumn neighbourhood
Where all the boys are camp
And underneath that twee beret
Your two eyes glow like lamps

Twee beret
Your twee beret
Oh I miss you in your charming twee beret

You wave your head from side to side
Like Miffy in her day
The nervous chatter of the world
You wave it all away

In this Norwegian hotel room
I miss you more each day
I miss your lips and miss your hips
I miss fire, I miss your ire

And more than I can say
I miss you in your charming twee beret
Your twee beret
Your twee beret
Your twee beret