published: 20 December 2013
duration: 47' 07"
Presented
by: Gareth Jones, Richard
Porter & Zog
#212 Seasonal Special. F1 double points, driver
numbers and a new team. Car toys of our Christmas past and the
future for cars and motorsport.
Sniff Petrol on McNish and the Nativity. Plus our new Xmas song “Why
Did They make Nigel Mansell Santa Claus?”
Gareth Jones On Speed & Sons
Why Did They Make Nigel Mansell Santa-Claus?
Santa's dead
Fell off his sled
No time to grieve
It's Christmas Eve
They need someone to fill in
Someone with a heavy boot
But their choice is rather strange
Though he's fat enough to fill the suit
Chorus
Oh why did they, make Nigel Mansell Santa-Claus?
I can't believe that this will go to plan
Oh I believe in many things at Christmas
But I don’t believe Santa comes from Birmingham
In Adelaide
He's got it made
Gifts on their way
In a Williams sleigh
But then disaster strikes our Nige
Oh, how could this get worse
Sparks all over the roof
One of the reindeer's burst
Oh why did they make Nigel Mansell
Santa-Claus?
It comes across as completely the wrong choice
Oh I like to hear so many things at Christmas
But I don’t want to hear a moany Brummie voice
In Monaco
Tales of woe
Kids got no gifts
And it’s the 26th
They say he did his best
To get round on his sleigh
But at every single bend
The ghost of Senna was in the way
Oh why did they make Nigel Mansell Santa Claus?
As decisions go, it’s really very crap
Oh I want to see so many things at Christmas
But not Saint Nic in a branded sponsor’s cap
Hunt wasn’t available
Chilton had run out of cash
Kimi’s incomprehensible
And Grosjean would have crashed.
So Nige became our Santa
And this a Yuletide farce
But I’m sure somewhere there’s a chimney
Wide enough
to fit his arse.
When he thought he'd got it sorted
Things were going well
Oh no! his sleigh’s been taken out
By TV’s Tiff Needell
Oh why did they make Nigel Mansell Santa Claus?
As decisions go, it all seems rather rash
Oh I believe in many things at Christmas
But I don’t believe that Santa has a moustache
Oh why did they make Nigel Mansell Santa Claus?
The whole thing's really turned out very weird
Oh I hope for so many things at Christmas
And I hope they use…. Taki Inoue next year
Yes I hope they use….. Taki Inoue next yeeeeeear.
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Written by: Gareth Jones & Richard Porter
Vocals: Gareth Jones, Richard Porter, Zog , Violet
Berlin & No1 Son & No2 Son
Instruments & production: Gareth
Jones
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©Gareth Jones December 2013
