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From: floyd@brl-smoke.ARPA (Floyd C. Wofford )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: grooving with a pict
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 10:11:06 EDT
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In article <565@mtunh.UUCP> ccj@mtunh.UUCP (Chris Jones) writes:
>To whomever posted the question "what language was the man speaking
>in the song Several species of small furry animals gathered together 
>in a cave and grooving with a pict ?"

A pict or Pict is a Scottish soldier.  It is possible that the accent
might be some garbled Scotch.  I believe it is Roger Waters doing the
vocal.  That might explain the 'craziness' of the cut.  His mental
state and the influence of Sid (Syd?) Barrett have been discussed
elsewhere.  I have always thought that the last line of the monologue
was "... and the wind cries Mary."  That was the best reconstruction
I could make.  If so, then the entire monologue may be in English.  I
don't know why the line would be that.  The obvious guess would be Jimi
Hendrix, but....

floyd@brl.arpa