Episode 54 – Beefhead Day

We celebrate Beefhead Day by speaking to Professor James Harcombe about its true origins. Plus new music from Paul Paul.

Lyrics
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The Beefhead Comes This Night
Come all good people of this fair town

Pray hear my tale of the Beefhead brown

As days grow short and darkness blooms

A woeful wrench emerges from the gloom

As winter's hand strengthens it's grip

The beefheaded man makes his devilish trip

Here he comes, the beefhead comes

Sound the horns and bang the drums

With his friend, Oxtail Sam

Sir Dunstan Hooves is the last of the clan

The beefhead comes this night

Cover my friends in fright

Beef for a face and beef for a head

Beef for arms and beef for legs

His sudden soul without a prayer Rugged clothes and matted hair

Lit by the moonbeam

the towns folk throw their cream

Here he comes, the beefhead comes

Sound the horns and bang the drums

With his friend, Oxtail Sam

Sir Dunstan Hooves is the last of the clan

The beefhead comes this night

Cover my friends in fright

Dowsed in the delicious paste

He stumbles through the streets at haste

The women stand by with kettle and pan

to deliver us from this cursed man

Sir Dunstan lets the small birds fly

The creatures take his eyes

Here he comes, the beefhead comes

Sound the horns and bang the drums

With his friend, Oxtail Sam

Sir Dunstan Hooves is the last of the clan

The beefhead comes this night

Cover my friends in fright

The beefhead comes x6

The beefheads are coming in

Loudly singing moo

The beefheads are coming in

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The beefheads are coming in

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Characters

 * Host
 * James Harcombe
 * Clementine Persell
 * Sara Patterly
 * Brian Patterly
 * Paul Paul
 * Sir Dunstan Hooves
 * Oxtail Sam (mentioned)

Actors

 * Benjamin Partridge
 * Mike Shephard
 * Kat Sadler
 * Catherine Brinkworth
 * Max Davis
 * Rhodri Viney
 * Eugene Capper