This song was playing on the radio on my way home from work just now.
It brought back memories of us classmates practicing the tune acapella for some silly Lunchtime Concert back in school. Not easy since we didn't have the benefit of instruments to mask the yelping and croaking. But lucky for me and another girl, we were given the relatively easy part of 'pom pom pom-ing' our way through most of the song. But still the vocal coordination was quite a nitemare for novices like us. Plus the fact that we were not that talented and afraid that the 'award-winning' choir folks in the audience would laugh themselves silly when they heard us =P
I tink we sounded more like the House-Fartings than the Housemartins =))
But surprisingly, we were pretty much well received. Even called upon to do an encore performance at another event which I have since forgotten about. So we couldn't have been that bad.
However till now, I still don't know what the lyrics mean. What's a caravan of love? And why do we have to Stand Up, Stand Up? I'm you're brother, She's my sister? Must be some '60s, hippie, free-love kinda ditty.
Nice little number nonetheless. I'll try it out again in the shower later =))