THE EX-PITMEN’S POT-HOLING PUB QUIZ TEAM – J.Lowe/Lowe Life Music
The Ex-pitmen’s Pot-Holing Pub Quiz Team’s riding tonight,
Five grey-haired desperados all fit for a fight,
With matching green sweaters, they know all their subjects by heart,
Now they sit with their shandies, and wait for the shooting to start.
Stanley is sport, Mickey is music, Harry is history, Peter politics,
All subjects covered, I tell you man, these lads are good,
With Kenny the captain to keep them in line,
Cos he was a deputy, down the mine,
The Ex-pitmen’s Pot-Holing Pub Quiz Team’s baying for blood.
Yippee aye oh, yippee-aye ay,
I pity the man with the answers that stands in their way,
Yippee aye ay, yippee aye oh,
Ask any question you like, I bet you they know.
They laugh at the dates and kick sand in the face of the names,
They swagger past football and crickets, like so many kid’s games,
For they’ve got the facts and the figures in the palm of their hand,
They’ve earned their spurs as the fastest quiz team in the land.
You might sense a stumble at “Pop since the nineties”,
Or “Atomic Numbers” or “African Countries”,
But they claw their way back with a flourish of substance and style,
When they’re asked, “Who killed Trotsky?” or “Who scored for Preston?”
Or founding members of Fairport Convention,
The Ex-pitmen’s Pot-Holing Pub Quiz Team sit back and smile.
But when quiz season closes for summer, our heroes so brave,
They head for the hills and hide out in the caverns and caves,
They put on their pit-lamps and helmets, it’s just like old times,
And search for their youth that lost way down there in the mines,
Like they lost their jobs to Big Chiefs and bosses,
And lost their allotments to big city by-passes,
A life left to fill or to kill, they had to decide,
And who would’ve thought, that now thirty years after,
There’s learning and seeking, living and laughter,
As The Ex-pitmen’s Pot-Holing Pub Quiz Team get’s in their stride,
Yes, The Ex-pitmen’s Pot-Holing Pub Quiz Team’s riding tonight.