Give it to the Soft Boys Albums Gigs Lyrics Comments

Details

Author
Robyn Hitchcock
Performances
44

Albums

Title Artist Label Type Year
A Can of Bees The Soft Boys Two Crabs Music Authorized 1979
Live At The Portland Arms The Soft Boys Midnight Music Authorized 1983
Wading Through a Ventilator The Soft Boys The DeLorean Record Co. Unauthorized 1984
The Yodelling Hoover The Soft Boys DeLorean Records Unauthorized 1986
Give It To The Soft Boys The Soft Boys Black Snake Records Unauthorized 1986
Wading Through A Ventilator The Soft Boys Delorean Records Unauthorized 1987
Raw Cuts The Soft Boys Overground Records Authorized 1989
The Soft Boys 1976-1981 The Soft Boys Rykodisc Authorized 1993
Where Are The Prawns? The Soft Boys Fan Club release 1994
Rout Of The Clones The Soft Boys Unauthorized 1995
Sex, Food, Death... and Tarantulas Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 Yep Roc Authorized 2007

Gigs

Billed As Venue City State Country Date
Dennis and the Experts Alma Cambridge England UK November 06, 1976
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK January 01, 1977
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK January 07, 1978
The Soft Boys Portland Arms Cambridge England UK November 01, 1978
The Soft Boys Leicester University Leicester England UK November 21, 1978
The Soft Boys Lady Mitchell Hall Cambridge England UK November 27, 1978
The Soft Boys Great Northern Cambridge England UK January 19, 1982
The Soft Boys Astoria London England UK January 13, 1994
The Soft Boys The Concorde Brighton England UK January 14, 1994
The Soft Boys Astoria London England UK January 15, 1994
The Soft Boys Corn Exchange Cambridge England UK January 17, 1994
Robyn Hitchcock Crocodile Cafe Seattle Washington US October 04, 1994
Robyn Hitchcock Crocodile Cafe Seattle Washington US June 13, 1997
The Soft Boys Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US April 04, 2001
The Soft Boys The Fillmore San Francisco California US April 07, 2001
The Soft Boys Knitting Factory Los Angeles California US April 10, 2001
Robyn Hitchcock Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US April 21, 2002
Robyn Hitchcock Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US November 15, 2003
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Academy II Birmingham England UK January 20, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 The Junction Cambridge England UK January 22, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Komedia Brighton England UK January 23, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Scala London England UK January 25, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Fleece and Firkin Bristol England UK January 26, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Phoenix Exeter England UK January 27, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock with Minus 5 The Coach House San Juan Capistrano California US February 24, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Loppen Copenhagen Denmark July 04, 2006
Minus 5 Dingwalls London England UK July 10, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 FAB Tokyo Japan October 08, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Gov Adelaide South Australia Australia October 14, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Maxwell's Hoboken New Jersey US November 18, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US November 25, 2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Zodiac Oxford England UK January 07, 2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Carling Academy Islington England UK January 11, 2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta Georgia US March 20, 2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 World Café Live Philadelphia Pennsylvania US March 26, 2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Iron Horse Northampton Massachusetts US March 29, 2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Bell House New York New York US June 11, 2009
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Barby Club Tel Aviv Israel March 24, 2012
Robyn Hitchcock Village Underground London England UK February 28, 2013
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Troubadour Los Angeles California US April 30, 2013
Robyn Hitchcock's New Melbournian Softest of the Soft Boys The Tote Melbourne Victoria Australia December 20, 2016
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK July 02, 2021
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK December 22, 2021

Comments

Dr. (Willie) Messerschmidt is the man who created Lufwaffe Messerschmidt,
the successor to the German Fokker warplane dynasty in the late 1920s.
His plant built the entire first two waves (of five models) of German
fighter planes for Adolph Hitler after his rise to power in 1933. All of
these planes, as well as a few made by Ernst Porsche (yes, he of hot red
sports car and VW Beetle fame) and the few remains of the Fokker airplane
factories, with a bunch of new ones, composed the Luftwaffe, Hitler's
rather formidable air force that served him very well for ten years
before the Allies started Bosche-bashing in 1943. His most successful
plane was the Messerschmidt ME-109 (hence: "just 109's 'em" meaning,
presumably, to shoot something down, literally or figuratively).

Lyrics

[Give it to the soft boys! Ha ha!
Take one
(one, two, great to be here!) Sure is, three, four!]

Feel like asking a tree for an autograph
And I feel like making love to a photograph
Photographs don't smell

Yeah - Give it to the Soft Boys
Soft Boys

Well I told you, baby, I was the only one
Then I left myself and now you're the lonely one
Machines can't jerk

Yeah - Give it to the Soft Boys
Soft Boys

Course, hard boys groove and wide boys a-mess a bit
But them soft boys wind up with a Doctor Messerschmitt
He just a one-o-nines 'em

Yeah - Give it to the Soft Boys
Soft Boys

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