17/09/2012

Hey Little Hen


This morning I was woken by Wilson's singing… this time not a Dylan song, but the WW2 classic Hey Little Hen
When he'd finished, I asked him if he'd tired of Dylan's songs, and he frowned, saying, 'Of course not. Hey Little Hen is one of Dylan's early classics! It dates, I think, from the transitional period between his protest songs and going electric.'
I tried to put him right, but he refused to believe me. He stomped out of the room, returning a few minutes later holding his (actually, my) iPad, which was playing a video. It really did appear to be a video of Bob Dylan singing Hey Little Hen, but closer inspection revealed it to be Burt Kwouk on the Harry Hill Show
It's an easy mistake to have made, and we continued to sing Hey Little Hen together for the rest of the morning… in our Dylan voices.
Is that Mr Harry dressed as Allen Ginsberg in the background? And isn't that Stoufa the Cat's head peeking out of the wheelie bin?

See the video for yourself here, at around the 9m50s mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4h6-gDWqe8

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