St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H Wilson (Andrew Weatherall Remix – Radio Edit) Lyrics

St. Anthony, St. Anthony please come round
Because something is lost that cannot be found

Talk to me of Albion, of Anderton and of art
Of the Arndale, Alan Turing, acid house, Alexandra Park
Of Bez, the Buzzcocks, the Bouncing
Bombs and the beautiful Busby Babes
Of Curtis, cancer, Christie's, Catholicism, crack and Kurt Cobain

Talk to me of all these things and
There's one thing that's for certain
That I'll see the face and I'll hear the voice of Anthony H. Wilson

Dance, design, De Ruyter, De Vol, development of a dirty Norm, say
De La Salle, dignity, how in the end you hated all the pay
Elvis Engels and ecstasy and a girl called Emmeline
And the hours that I spent watching you on my black and white TV
From So It Goes to Sunday Roast
You were enchanting, you were a genius
I saw you with elephants hosing down some roads on black and white TV

Factory fame, financial muck-ups, poetic form and the fall
The 4th of June 1976 at the Lesser Free Trade Hall
Oh talk to me, oh talk to me of Graham, God and Granada
And of Hooky and of Hanna and how the fighting just got harder
Hamlet, it's in the IRA, Jesus, Mary and Keith Joseph
Joy Division, Judaism, the importance of the moment
Of Liam, London, lust for life, of Louie Louie and Aeneas Banks
Of Manchester, music, marijuana, Majesty and Karl Marx
Of nightclubs, new bands, the Warlock
Mannheimer and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
And all those topical late night intellectual
Chats about the other side of midnight, the dark

Come and talk to me of all these things
And there's one thing that's for certain
That I'll see the face and I'll hear the voice of Anthony H. Wilson

Tony, talk to me of the Sex Pistols, of substance, streets, the sounds
The sniffed and snorted, stolen, swigged multi-million pounds
And talk to me of the greatest ever Man United team
Greg, Burns, Jones, Edwards, Robson and Roy Keane
Give me yin and yang, give me masterplan
Of an independent Northern scene
Talk to me of Warrick, Doncaster Youth
Club, Banter, Yeats and talk to me
Wilson, talk to me
Yeats, talk to me
Dyke guys, talk to me
Tony, talk to me
Wilson, talk to me
Dyke guys, talk to me
Tony, talk to me

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