Show 1222 Friday 25 June
Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.
Today we’re studying Codeine Road which is a song by an Auckland musician called Greg Fleming.
I listened to him being interviewed on a podcast last week and then I went and checked out his music on YouTube and I really like the song Codeine Road.
He’s just released an album and this is one of the songs from it.
The song is about a famous street in Auckland called Karangahape Road which is commonly known as K Road.
As it says in Wikipedia, K Road is known for cafes, boutique shops, nightlife and for once having been one of the main red light districts of the city.
I think the song’s about a guy who’s walking down K Road observing what’s going on and the people he sees – including alcoholics and prostitutes.
He sees one old guy:
Stop in at the shop
Spend all the money he got
on red, red wine and a video
Codeine is a kind of drug which can be used as a recreational drug, so I guess that’s a reference to the dodgy nightlife on K Road.
This line is repeated several times:
It’ll put the fear of God in you
Put the fear of God into somebody is an idiom which means: to make sb very frightened, especially in order to make them do sth.
So I think he’s saying that K Road can be a scary place.
STICK NEWS
Kia ora in Stick News today for the first time ever Australia has a female prime minister.
Julia Gillard was born in Wales in 1961.
Five years later her family migrated to Australia.
Julia became a lawyer and worked in industrial law.
In 1998, she became a member of parliament and nine years later became the first female deputy prime minister of Australia.
Yesterday, she became the prime minister.
And that was Stick News for Friday 25th June.
Kia ora.
Shwmae!
G' day!
They can't fire you for that! Let's sue the bastards!
OK
I will do everything in my power to make you proud.
Deputy PM! Darling! Time for a new hairstyle!
Bye Kev!
sniff!
Word of the Day
Today's word is hui.
A hui is a meeting or gathering or conference. It's a Māori word which is also
used in New Zealand English. When you see the word hui in an English newspaper in New Zealand, they're usually talking about a formal meeting at a marae.
The other day I saw a billboard in Auckland which was advertising flights and
it said: Get to the hui without the hikoi.
Hikoi is another Māori word that's also used in New Zealand English.
As it says in Wikipedia, a hikoi is: a protest march or parade, usually implying a long journey taking days or weeks.
So this billboard is saying that instead of walking for a long time to get to the meeting, you should fly.
friday joke
Damn. My computer's got the Robert Green virus.
What’s that?
It can't save anything.
conversations with sarah
#779 Should I avoid going there?
Step 1: Repeat Olivia’s lines.
Step 2: Read Olivia’s lines and talk to Sarah.
Olivia Is K Road a really dangerous place?
Sarah No, not really. It’s just … it can be kind of dodgy, I guess …
Olivia Should I avoid going there?
Sarah No, no, you don’t have to avoid it. There are some cool cafes and bars there. And clothes shops … And if you like dancing, you can go there and dance all night.
Olivia What’s your favourite street in Auckland?
Sarah My favourite street? Hmm … good question. Definitely not the street I live on now, that’s for sure. Yeah, I don’t know, I’d have to think about it.
Codeine Road by Greg Fleming - Lyrics
Put the fear of God as you hop, skip skip and jump, put the fear of God in you.
Same old man you know, out taking a stroll.
He might be the king of rock’n’roll, that’s the way it goes, all the way down Codeine Road.
Stop in at the shop.
Spend all the money he got on red red wine and a video.
A shot to go, the whole way down Codeine Road.
She’s sitting there, talking on the phone.
I take a chair, she take a car and go go go!
Codeine Road.
There’s little boy blue he’s out on his own too.
Lord, he ain’t got a clue, just what he’d do if they closed Codeine Road.
There’s little boy blue, hey look, there’s me and you down Codeine Road.
Hey don’t make no fuss, just find someone you can trust down Codeine Road.
You got the same old face, in the same old place Codeine Road.
It’ll put the fear of God in you.
It’ll put the fear of God in you.
It’ll put the fear of God in you.
It’ll put the fear of God in you.
filming notes
Today's ending shot was filmed on 14 June 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand - on the corner of Union St and Hobson St.
links
Julia Gillard - Wikipedia
music
show start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Future Cha Cha
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site
WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site
friday joke start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: Sumbala
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site
cws start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: The Jazz Woman
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site
qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site
show start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Future Cha Cha
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site
WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site
friday joke start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: Sumbala
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site
cws start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: The Jazz Woman
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site
qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site
qa bgm
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist: King Dubby
album: Chapter II
track: Zen Dub 2
from: Angers, Francealbum at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
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