Jeremy Taylor and his Transplant Calypso

In his own words Mr. Taylor tells of how this piece came to be…

“During the late sixties I took part in a weekly television show for Granada TV in the north of England. There were four of us in the cast, and we would ride up from London on the breakfast train, studying the morning’s papers over porridge and kippers, and by the time we got to the studios around ten o’clock we had each selected various news items for comment. In my case that meant writing a song, or a monologue, or some sort of sketch. I also created a character called Loony Len who would recite misty-eyed and unintelligible Scottish poetry at the drop of a haggis.”

JT doesn’t mention that one of passengers was Spike Milligan.

“It was on one of these early-morning train rides that I read of Dr Christian Barnard’s first heart transplant operation. The tabloids and the medical profession waxed ecstatic. The fact that both the donor and the recipient came off rather badly from the whole experience seemed to escape people’s notice. The point was that man, and science, were proving once again that you can’t stop “progress”, and that man’s mastery of the laws of nature had taken another giant step forward in liberating us all from the inconvenient fact of death”.

“I was, and still am, uneasy about all this. I don’t want to pretend that I like death, but at the same time it seems to me that without it life would have no meaning. There would be no wonder, no courage, no dignity – and no children, since you cannot go on populating a world where nobody dies.”

Here is the original version…which is followed by a modern cartoon like version.

It may well be that some medicinal compound is required for this transplant stuff so for Dr. Funks sake here are the Irish Rovers who could be the solution to our virus problem.

If you can watch a few more of these guys, a pertinent one would be “The Unicorn Song.” You will find it somewhere in this rabbit hole. This dive would be incomplete without mentioning “I’ve been a wild rover…” by “The Dubliners” which is probably the reason for transplant needs in the first place.

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