Waiting For The Worms transcripts

[Drsalvador]

i've spent a lot of time listening to Waiting For The Worms(my favourite song from Side 2, the bass riff is just awesome.) and i've managed to sort of transcribe the megaphone lyrics, here are a couple of my own;.

The worms will convene outside brixton bus station where we'll be moving at about four o clock towards the abbots road, if we encounter any resistance we'll stop and move towards vauxhall bridge, when we get to vauxhall bridge we may encounter some jew boys in the area who may try and push us back. If we do we'll have to just keep pushing forth no matter what, anyone who falls behind will be left behind, If you have any problem with our plans you'll have to stay behind.. We're going to charge! We're going to march and charge and destroy them all!

When we get to vauxhall bridge, We'll be in the westminister area, It's quite possible we may encounter some jew boys and they're likely to slow us down by the way that we go. Are any of you ready to charge? Are you ready to charge? Are you prepared to move? We're going to charge! We're going to charge, and hammer, and destroy them all!

i was wondering if anyone else had any kind of transcription of this, or any kind of official lyrics.

[Grotesque]

i've spent a lot of time listening to Waiting For The Worms

You need to get out more!

[Drsalvador]

there's life outside Pink Floyd???

[ruben77]

The book "Comfortably Numb - A History of the Wall" by Vernon Finch and Richard Mahon is probably the most recent and detailed analysis of the album. It contains the full (and correct) lyrics of all the songs. Page 107 contains the lyrics to Waiting for the Worms, including the megaphone parts.

The transcription on the book and your version(s) have really big differences (no Abbot's Road, no 4 o'clock).

On page 108 of the same book there is an explanation from Waters himself:
"... it's describing the route of the march from Brixton Town Hall, down Stockwell Road, and then Lamberth Road, and over Vauxhall Bridge. It's meant to be describing a route to Hyde Park Corner to have a rally by the National Front."

I don't know if it is allowed to share here a photo of the page where the transcript is shown. If it is permitted, I may take a picture of page 107 with the lyrics and the transcript and post it here.

PS: I sometimes think that the version from the "Is There Anybody Out There" live CD is clearer in the last part of the chant.

[}{eywood]

if you separate the channels in the 5.1 mix of the film you get that vocal part pretty much isolated. Not that that makes it easy to figure out, but a lot easier than with the music drowning it out

[Grotesque]

I agree... Imagine being an American and having to figure that one out...