Give Me a Spanner, Ralph Releases Gigs Lyrics

Details

Author
Robyn Hitchcock
Performances
19

Releases

Title Artist Label Type Year
Black Snake Diamond Role Robyn Hitchcock Armageddon Records Album 1981
Live At The Portland Arms The Soft Boys Midnight Music Album 1983
Invisible Hitchcock Robyn Hitchcock Glass Fish Records Album 1986
I Wanna Go Backwards Robyn Hitchcock Yep Roc Records Album 2007

Gigs

Billed As Venue City State Country Date
Dennis and the Experts Alma Cambridge England UK 11/06/1976
The Soft Boys The Portland Arms Cambridge England UK 11/01/1978
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians KUSF San Francisco California US 11/17/1986
Robyn Hitchcock McCabe's Santa Monica California US 05/26/1990
Robyn Hitchcock Maxwell's Hoboken New Jersey US 01/09/2004
Robyn Hitchcock Schuba's Chicago Illinois US 11/06/2004
Robyn Hitchcock Great American Music Hall San Francisco California US 03/03/2005
Robyn Hitchcock Largo Los Angeles California US 07/09/2005
Robyn Hitchcock Berklee College of Music Boston Massachusetts US 11/13/2014
Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo The Bowery Ballroom New York New York US 03/01/2017
Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo The Fillmore San Francisco California US 09/29/2017
Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo Regent Theatre Los Angeles California US 10/01/2017
Robyn Hitchcock The Portland Arms Cambridge England UK 10/30/2018
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Robyn & Emma's house Nashville Tennessee US 08/26/2020
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Robyn & Emma's house Nashville Tennessee US 08/28/2020
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 06/25/2021
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 08/06/2021
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 09/01/2021
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 12/28/2022

Lyrics

You know one time I knew a guy called Ralph
Seems like a really long time ago now, but
He was a friend

Well there's guys like Hoyst
That gotta be moist
Girls like Joanna
With a modern day manner
Mamas like Joyce
With her turned up voice
The eyes-apple handles
That taste of a triple banana
O, Ralph, give me a spanner
That's what I want

Well, there's guys like Raymond
That gotta be dim
Cats like John
That gotta be dumb
Unlike him
You come in
With the guys that can handle the pace of a young iguana
Please, Ralph, give me a spanner
Come on, Ralph, that's what I want

<Notes>
"Spanner" is the British word for what we in the States call: a wrench