With the BBC’s Wimbledon reruns completed, it’s time to share Kartoon Faktory’s take on the SW19 and more specifically Clan Murray’s many adventures at the All England Club. Over the years I have been privileged to watch many of the Clan’s successes at close quarters and what a roller-coaster ride it has been.
To celebrate these successes, Kartoon Faktory has compiled an eclectic series of posts celebrating a few of the family’s landmark moments. Please enjoy the following:
I WILL WIN FIVE HUNDRED GAMES
With the kind permission of The Proclaimers and their management.
A double celebration of Andy’s marriage to Kim and
the lad recently recording his 500th win on the ATP Tour.
When I wake up, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I yell ‘out’, yeah, I know I’m gonna be
The man who yells ‘out’ just for you.
If I don’t drink, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who won’t drink next to you
And if I haver, hey, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s havering just for you.
(Chorus)
But I will win five hundred games
And I will win five hundred more
Just to be the man who won a thousand games
To fall down at your door
When I’m playing, yes, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s playing hard for you
And when the money comes in for the work I do
I’ll pass almost every penny on to you
When I play well (when I play well), oh, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who plays well just for you
And when I vote Yes, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s voted Yes with you.
(Chorus)
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
When I’m winnin’, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s winnin’ beside you
And when I’m trainin’, well, I know I’m gonna train
I’m gonna train for the time when I’m with you
And when I serve well (when I serve well), yes, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who serves well just for you
And when I come home (when I come home), yes, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home with you
I’m gonna be the man who’s coming home with you
(Chorus)
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (da lat da), da lat da (da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
(Chorus)
Lyrics by Cameron McPhail, arranged and sung by Frank Tausney, both of the Cesarean Tennis Club, Jersey
A TENNIS PLAYER
After Andy Stewart’s song of 1961 blockbuster, ‘A Scottish Soldier’. Believe it or not, his iconic song
spent 36 weeks in the UK Singles Chart and over a year in the American Billboard Top 50
There was a player, a tennis player
Who wandered far away and played so far away
There was none bolder, with good broad shoulder
He fought many’s a seed and fought and won
He’d seen the glory, he’s told the story
Of matches glorious and deeds victorious
But now he’s sighing, his heart is crying
To play these clay courts of “Paree”1
(Chorus)
Because those clay courts are not Perthshire courts
Orra Glasgow courts, they’re not his land’s courts
And fair as these clay courts may be
They are not the courts of home
But now this player, this tennis player
Who wandered far away and played so far away
Sees Kim is waiting, to end the dating
And fears her running away to Ingerland
He called his mother, his trusty mother
And bade her come to stay
In Cromlix House2 to pray
In the penthouse, the Cromlix penthouse
Far from those clay courts of Paree
(Chorus)
And now this player, this tennis player
Will wander far no more and play away no more
And in the Tappit Hen,3,4 Dunblane’s wee Tappit Hen
You’ll hear this player say, this player’s home
He’s seen the glory, he’s told the story
Of matches glorious and deeds victorious
All doubts have ceased now, he is at peace now
Close to those green hills by Dunblane
(Chorus x 2)
Lyrics by Cameron McPhail, arranged and sung by Frank Tausney (Both of the Cesarean Tennis Club, Jersey)
Background Notes
- Curiously never at his best on this surface, Andy heads for France and the grueling clay
court season almost immediately after he says “I do” in Dunblane Cathedral - Andy’s five star hotel near Dunblane
- The Tappit Hen would be Andy’s local if he imbibed and ironically sits just across the road
from the Cathedral where Kim and he are to marry on Saturday 11 April - Tappit Hen is a Scottish name for a pewter tankard, usually with a distinctive chicken like
emblem on its lid