Leppo and the Jooves Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

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Robyn Hitchcock
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 90 times, most recently at The Tote on March 08, 2024. He first performed it at St John's Pythagoras Room on November 24, 1977, 46 years and 3 months earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
A Can of Bees The Soft Boys Two Crabs Music Album 1979
Gotta Let This Hen Out! Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians Midnight Music Album 1985
The Soft Boys 1976-1981 The Soft Boys Rykodisc Album 1993
Rout Of The Clones The Soft Boys Bootleg 1995
Maxwell's, New York, 1980 The Soft Boys Handmade Productions Bootleg 1998
Luminous Groove Box Set sampler Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians Yep Roc Promo 2008
Luminous Groove Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians Yep Roc Records Album 2008
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
St John's Pythagoras Room Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 11/24/1977
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
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/06/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 10/14/1978
77 Club The Soft Boys Nuneaton England UK 10/17/1978
London College of Printing The Soft Boys London England UK 10/19/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/20/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 10/27/1978
Downing College, Cambridge University The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/28/1978
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
Eric's The Soft Boys Liverpool England UK 11/25/1978
Lady Mitchell Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/27/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 12/08/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 12/22/1978
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
Sidney Sussex College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/26/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/02/1979
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 02/03/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 03/03/1979
UCL (University College London) The Soft Boys London England UK 03/05/1979
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 03/10/1979
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 03/24/1979
Brillig Arts Centre The Soft Boys Bath England UK 04/21/1979
University of East Anglia The Soft Boys Norwich England UK 04/27/1979
Canterbury College of Art The Soft Boys Canterbury England UK 05/01/1979
Pop Club The Soft Boys York England UK 05/02/1979
Boogie House The Soft Boys Norwich England UK 05/03/1979
The Penthouse The Soft Boys Scarborough England UK 05/04/1979
Newcastle Polytechnic The Soft Boys Newcastle upon Tyne England UK 05/06/1979
Huddersfield Polytechnic The Soft Boys Huddersfield England UK 05/08/1979
Reading University The Soft Boys Reading England UK 05/09/1979
Warwick University The Soft Boys Coventry England UK 05/12/1979
Woods The Soft Boys Plymouth England UK 05/16/1979
Routes The Soft Boys Exeter England UK 05/17/1979
Tiffany's The Soft Boys Edinburgh Scotland UK 05/22/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 06/02/1979
Hope & Anchor Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 01/05/1980
The Africa Centre The Soft Boys London England UK 05/22/1980
The 80's The Soft Boys New York New York US 09/05/1980
Maxwell's The Soft Boys Hoboken New Jersey US 09/06/1980
Dingwalls The Soft Boys London England UK 12/07/1980
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 01/23/1981
Great Northern Hotel The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/19/1982
Marquee Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians London England UK 04/27/1985
Irving Plaza Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians New York New York US 06/21/1985
Cabaret Metro Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians Chicago Illinois US 06/22/1985
9:30 Club Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians Washington DC US 11/09/1985
Berkeley Square Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians Berkeley California US 03/19/1986
Town Pump Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians Vancouver British Columbia Canada 03/24/1986
9:30 Club Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians Washington DC US 03/28/1986
Zentrum Zoo Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians Tubingen Germany 04/13/1986
Powerhaus The Soft Boys London England UK 10/17/1992
Fletcher's The Soft Boys Baltimore Maryland US 03/19/2001
Theatre of Living Arts The Soft Boys Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 03/20/2001
9:30 Club The Soft Boys Washington DC US 03/21/2001
Maxwell's The Soft Boys Hoboken New Jersey US 03/23/2001
Irving Plaza The Soft Boys New York New York US 03/24/2001
Paradise Rock Club The Soft Boys Boston Massachusetts US 03/26/2001
The Horseshoe Tavern The Soft Boys Toronto Ontario Canada 03/28/2001
St. Andrew's Hall The Soft Boys Detroit Michigan US 03/29/2001
First Avenue The Soft Boys Minneapolis Minnesota US 03/31/2001
Pine Street Theatre The Soft Boys Portland Oregon US 04/05/2001
The Fillmore The Soft Boys San Francisco California US 04/07/2001
Knitting Factory The Soft Boys Los Angeles California US 04/10/2001
Fleece and Firkin The Soft Boys Bristol England UK 04/19/2001
Pavilion Theatre The Soft Boys Brighton England UK 04/20/2001
The Waterfront The Soft Boys Norwich England UK 04/22/2001
The Basement The Soft Boys Nottingham England UK 04/23/2001
The Cathouse The Soft Boys Glasgow Scotland UK 04/24/2001
Electric Ballroom The Soft Boys London England UK 04/26/2001
The Zodiac The Soft Boys Oxford England UK 04/27/2001
Wedgewood Rooms The Soft Boys Portsmouth England UK 04/29/2001
The Evershot Village Hall The Soft Boys Evershot England UK 09/15/2001
The Square The Soft Boys Harlow England UK 10/18/2001
Fleece and Firkin Robyn Hitchcock Bristol England UK 12/02/2004
Komedia Robyn Hitchcock and the Final Groove Brighton England UK 12/06/2004
Green Dragon Hotel Robyn Hitchcock Hereford England UK 12/21/2008
Yarra Hotel Robyn Hitchcock & The Abbotsford Three Melbourne Victoria Australia 03/04/2015
The Tote Robyn Hitchcock's New Melbournian Softest of the Soft Boys Melbourne Victoria Australia 12/20/2016
Aladdin Theater Robyn Hitchcock & The Nashville Fabs Portland Oregon US 10/06/2018
Cambridge Junction Kimberley Rew's Marvelous Music Cambridge England UK 12/03/2021
The Tote Robyn Hitchcock Melbourne Victoria Australia 03/08/2024

Comments

"Leppo is a character who's pursued 'round the world by the Jooves. Each day they catch him and let him go again because they don't want him for anything. And this keeps happening day after day."

Lyrics

Crabwise
Over the Andalusian extensions of the life and loves of Noddy
Through the windows of disgust
The teeth of Leppo and his managers awry
No time to cry

Sunrise
A lamp of no position in the loss of all existence
To the vultures without bibles and
The preachers without leaves that pass it by
No time to sigh

All them pretty women
Planted in a row
You see them in the newspapers
But you can't have 'em - no!
No no no no no no no no!  Oh ho ho!

They get Lep- Lep- Leppo and the J- J- J- J- J- Jooves
They jump on anything that m- m- m- m- m- moves
On taxis, coffin-lids, Americans, piano-heads and roofs
Leppo...

Likewise
A farmer and his diary might conspire to freeze a widow
So I went to rob the lizard
Of his skin, his coat, his money and his earth
All that he's worth

Someday
You realize that everything you do or see or think of
If it interferes with nothing
Might as well dissolve in arrows or in tears
Nobody hears

All them famous people
Washed off in the rain
Leave not even a puddle, baby
All you leave is your name
Huh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!  Your name!

I got a name, baby
It's Lep- Lep- Leppo and the J- J- J- J- J- Jooves  Oh ho ho!
They jump on anything that m- m- m- m- m- moves
Ah ha ha!  Ah ha ha.
On taxis, coffin-lids, Americans, piano-heads and roofs
Leppo...

Listen
And you can hear the dripping of the clocks, the reaping of the sun
the vengeance of the hammer and
The squeamish tight explosion of the liar
Burn in the fire

Gazing
With unforeseeing eyes into the smoke, the lungs of war
And all the endless formulations of unusable beginnings that
Have grown from hungry rivers into trees
Nobody sees

All them hungry people
They don't look so good
But I don't let it bother you
I don't see why it should
No no no no no no!  Oh oh ho
Oh ho ho

Lep- Lep- Leppo and the J- J- J- J- J- Jooves
They jump on anything that m- m- m- m- m- moves
On taxis, coffin-lids, Americans, piano-heads and roofs
Leppo...

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