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Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Lamb
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 110 times, most recently at Robyn and Emma's house on December 22, 2021. He first performed it at Alma on November 06, 1976, 45 years and 1 month earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
A Can of Bees The Soft Boys Two Crabs Music Album 1979
Live At The Portland Arms The Soft Boys Midnight Music Album 1983
Wading Through a Ventilator The Soft Boys Delorean Record Company Bootleg 1984
Soft Boys The Soft Boys Black Snake Records Bootleg 1986
Raw Cuts The Soft Boys Overground Records EP 1989
The Soft Boys 1976-1981 The Soft Boys Rykodisc Album 1993
Where Are The Prawns? The Soft Boys Fan Club release 1994
Rout Of The Clones The Soft Boys Bootleg 1995
Sex, Food, Death... and Tarantulas Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 Yep Roc Album 2007
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
Alma Dennis and the Experts Cambridge England UK 11/06/1976
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 07/07/1977
The Royal Hotel The Soft Boys Luton England UK 08/12/1977
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 09/02/1977
Icknields Hall The Soft Boys Letchworth England UK 09/09/1977
Corn Exchange The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/07/1977
Southbank Poly The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/14/1977
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/22/1977
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/13/1977
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/15/1977
London School of Economics (LSE) The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/18/1977
St John's Pythagoras Room Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 11/24/1977
Jesus College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/29/1977
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 12/01/1977
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/07/1978
The Roundhouse The Soft Boys London England UK 01/20/1978
Pembroke College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/28/1978
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 02/04/1978
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 02/05/1978
Mid-Herts College The Soft Boys Welwyn Garden City England UK 02/11/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 02/13/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/14/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 02/20/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/21/1978
Winchester Art School The Soft Boys Winchester England UK 02/24/1978
The Roundhouse The Soft Boys London England UK 02/26/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 02/27/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/28/1978
North East London Polytechnic The Soft Boys London England UK 03/09/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 03/29/1978
Elms Court (Oxford Elm Park Centre) The Soft Boys Botley England UK 04/01/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 04/02/1978
Rainbow Theatre The Soft Boys London England UK 04/08/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 04/15/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 04/21/1978
Alex Wood Hall Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 04/29/1978
The Penthouse The Soft Boys Scarborough England UK 05/05/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 05/06/1978
The Roundhouse The Soft Boys London England UK 05/07/1978
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 05/13/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 05/14/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 05/20/1978
Marquee The Soft Boys London England UK 05/25/1978
Nags Head The Soft Boys High Wycombe England UK 05/27/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys Middlesbrough England UK 06/02/1978
Tiffany's The Soft Boys Edinburgh Scotland UK 06/05/1978
Stowaway Club The Soft Boys Newport Wales UK 06/07/1978
Roots / F Club The Soft Boys Leeds England UK 06/08/1978
Rafters The Soft Boys Manchester England UK 06/09/1978
Portsmouth Polytechnic The Soft Boys Portsmouth England UK 06/17/1978
Marquee The Soft Boys London England UK 06/18/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 07/02/1978
Hope & Anchor Leppo & the Jooves London England UK 08/26/1978
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 08/28/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 09/15/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 10/14/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 10/27/1978
Downing College, Cambridge University The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/28/1978
The Portland Arms The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/01/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 11/11/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 11/16/1978
Leicester University The Soft Boys Leicester England UK 11/21/1978
Russell Club "Factory" Night The Soft Boys Manchester England UK 11/24/1978
Lady Mitchell Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/27/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 12/08/1978
Corn Exchange (Heads) The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 12/23/1978
North East London Polytechnic The Soft Boys London England UK 01/11/1979
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 01/12/1979
Mid-Herts College The Soft Boys Welwyn Garden City England UK 01/20/1979
University of East Anglia The Soft Boys Norwich England UK 04/27/1979
Boogie House The Soft Boys Norwich England UK 05/03/1979
Great Northern Hotel The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/19/1982
Astoria The Soft Boys London England UK 01/13/1994
The Concorde The Soft Boys Brighton England UK 01/14/1994
Astoria The Soft Boys London England UK 01/15/1994
Corn Exchange The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/17/1994
Crocodile Cafe Robyn Hitchcock Seattle Washington US 10/04/1994
Crocodile Cafe Robyn Hitchcock Seattle Washington US 06/13/1997
Crocodile Café The Soft Boys Seattle Washington US 04/04/2001
The Fillmore The Soft Boys San Francisco California US 04/07/2001
Knitting Factory The Soft Boys Los Angeles California US 04/10/2001
Crocodile Café Robyn Hitchcock Seattle Washington US 04/21/2002
Crocodile Café Robyn Hitchcock Seattle Washington US 11/15/2003
Academy II Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Birmingham England UK 01/20/2006
The Junction Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Cambridge England UK 01/22/2006
Komedia Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Brighton England UK 01/23/2006
Scala Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 London England UK 01/25/2006
Fleece and Firkin Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Bristol England UK 01/26/2006
Phoenix Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Exeter England UK 01/27/2006
The Coach House Robyn Hitchcock with Minus 5 San Juan Capistrano California US 02/24/2006
Loppen Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Copenhagen Denmark 07/04/2006
Dingwalls The Minus 5 London England UK 07/10/2006
FAB Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Tokyo Japan 10/08/2006
The Gov Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Adelaide South Australia Australia 10/14/2006
Maxwell's Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Hoboken New Jersey US 11/18/2006
Crocodile Café Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Seattle Washington US 11/25/2006
Komedia Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Brighton England UK 01/05/2007
The Zodiac Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Oxford England UK 01/07/2007
Carling Academy Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 London England UK 01/11/2007
The Boardwalk Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Sheffield England UK 01/14/2007
Smith's Olde Bar Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Atlanta Georgia US 03/20/2007
World Café Live Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 03/26/2007
Iron Horse Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Northampton Massachusetts US 03/29/2007
The Bell House Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 New York New York US 06/11/2009
Barby Club Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Tel Aviv Israel 03/24/2012
Village Underground - Robyn Retrospective Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 02/28/2013
The Troubadour Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Los Angeles California US 04/30/2013
The Tote Robyn Hitchcock's New Melbournian Softest of the Soft Boys Melbourne Victoria Australia 12/20/2016
Robyn and Emma's house Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 07/02/2021
Robyn and Emma's house Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 12/22/2021

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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