I Want To Be An Eddie Stobart Driver Ep by The Wurzels

They have also graced the shores of Canada and Australia -who will invite them to the USA? Let us know soon

But firstly (having had many requests for the lyrics and to save you looking them up on the Loose Records site)

HERE ARE THE LYRICS

I want to be an Eddie Stobart Driver

Behind the wheel is where I want to be

O let me be an Eddie Stobart Driver (ooh ahh)

The finest firm in haulage history

Everywhere you go y’know, you can spot the Eddie Spotters

Stobart’s the name they want to see

And all the other trucks and trailers

Are just counted out as failures

And anyway he’s the only man for me

I want to be an Eddie Stobart Driver

Nowadays we all sing Eddie’s praise

O let me be an Eddie Stobart Driver

'Cos Eddie Stobart rules the motorways

I want to hear the children

I want to hear them cheer like they cheer Eddie

When he overtakes us from afar (ooh aah)

With his fan club is expanding

He leaves the others standing

I’d love to be a Stobart superstar

I want to be an Eddie Stobart Driver

Behind the wheel is where I want to be

O let me be an Eddie Stobart Driver

The finest firm in haulage history

Spoken:

(Come on; let’s take it up a cog

Keep on a-truckin)

Now I’ll tell you just how far I'll

Go on up to Carlisle

Tell you what I’ll do when I arrive

I'm gonna walk right up to Eddie

And tell him that I'm ready

So put I on the road now and let I drive

I want to be an Eddie Stobart Driver

That’s exactly what I want to be

And if I can’t be an Eddie Stobart Driver

I’m going home to burn my HGV (2)

Spoken:

I shall be burning my Wurzels scarf as well then

Cos I shall have a brand new Eddie Stobart suit

I shall have proper job then

Mother’ll be as proud as punch

Copyright Loose Music GB 1995

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Adge Cutler and The Wurzels renamed The Wurzels after Cutler's death, are a British Scrumpy and Western band.

The band is mostly, and perhaps unfairly, only remembered for its 1976 number one hit The Combine Harvester but has a history stretching nearly 40 years, and still performs to this day.

In its heyday the band was very popular despite disdain from "serious" critics.

The name of the band came from the fodder beet Mangelwurzel. As can be determined from the subject matter of many of their songs, cider is very popular amongst Wurzels and their fans. Their particular "genre" of music has been named "Scrumpy And Western" (scrumpy is a name given to traditional cider).

Adge Cutler and The Wurzels

The Wurzels were formed in 1966 as a backing group for singer/songwriter Adge Cutler.

With a thick Somerset accent, Adge played on his West Country roots, singing many folk songs with local themes such as cider making (and drinking), farming, local villages and industrial work songs, often with a comic slant.

During the 1960s, the band became immensely popular regionally, and the release of the single Drink Up Thy Zider led to national fame and number 45 in the UK charts.

A number of live albums were recorded at local pubs and clubs, filled with Adge Cutler penned favourites such as Easton in Gordano, The Champion Dung Spreader, and Thee's Got'n Where Thee Cassn't Back'n, Hassn't? together with songs written by others and some reworkings of popular folk songs of the time.

Adge Cutler was killed in May 1974 after crashing his car in Chepstow following a Wurzels concert and is buried in Nailsea.

Adge's death marked a curious turning point in the history of the Wurzels. Deprived of the main song-writing talent, the remaining Wurzels recorded The Wurzels Are Scrumptious! In 1975, an album containing many favourites from the back catalogue, including a number of previously unrecorded Cutler-written songs

In order to continue the surviving band needed its own songs, and these mostly took the formula of re-written popular pop songs of the time with the lyrics changed to include the usual Wurzel themes (cider, farming, local villages, Cheddar cheese, etc.)

In 1976, the Wurzels released The Combine Harvester, a re-work of the song Brand New Key, by Melanie, which became a huge UK hit, topping the charts for 2 weeks.

The band quickly followed its success with the release of several a number of similarly themed novelty songs such as I Am A Cider Drinker and Farmer Bill's Cowman, but by the turn of the 1980s had largely faded back in to obscurity.

The Wurzels never stopped performing, but record releases during the 1980s and 1990s were limited to even more obscure novelty singles like I Shot JR, Sunny Weston-super-Mare, and I Want To Be An Eddie Stobart Driver.

The late 1990s saw the release of I WANT TO BE AN EDDIE STOBART DRIVER, which was the beginning of a revival of the fortunes for the surviving Wurzels, gaining a cult status amongst students and resurgence in their popularity in their native West Country. A number of CD releases followed, largely featuring re-recordings of older works, but also Never Mind The Bullocks, an album of cover versions of contemporary British rock songs. This album was recorded with George Allen AKA Bob Noxious who went on to become tour manager of The Magic Numbers and Manager of The Mission. In 2005, the band released a limited edition split single with British Sea Power. The Wurzels covered BSP's Remember Me while BSP covered I Am A Cider Drinker. The band also supported BSP at their gig at the London Forum in November.

Wurzels continue to perform regular gigs.

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