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The Skids - "Into The Valley" (1979)
Produced by David Batchelor
"Into the Valley" is a 1979 single by Skids, taken off their Scared to Dance album, and is their best known song, appearing on a number of punk rock and Scottish music compilation albums. It reached number 10 in the UK Singles Chart for the week ending 24 March 1979. It was written by Richard Jobson and Stuart Adamson.
The song's lyrics are notoriously unintelligible owing to Jobson's diction
(mouaf !). This has been sent up in a television advertisement for Maxell audio cassettes which features printed (incorrect) "translations" of the words. The chorus, often misquoted, is actually "Ahoy, Ahoy, Land, Sea and Sky".
Jobson has said that the lyrics were written about the recruitment of Scottish youths into the army and more specifically about a friend who had been killed on a tour of duty in Northern Ireland.
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Keep on schtroumpfing - Il faut survivre avec son temps.