thinks its about what happens when you want to be a rocker, but have kids to support, and your band is breaking up - he refers to his kids Leda Lou and Nettie, and Kofi 'coming forth' not sure what some of it means - will have to ask Nettie again!
lyrics are incorrect - got these from Ginger Bakers own page - he wrote it.
Taters in a jam jar, parsons collar in the sky
Water in a fountain doesn't get me very high
Moby dick & Albert making out with Captain Bligh
And you know what you know in your head
Will you won't you do you don't you know when a head's dead?
What a bringdown
Little Leda Lou is growing Hampstead's in the North
Nettie B's been wearing daisies since the twenty-fourth
When's it going to end there's one more coming forth?
And you know what you know in your head
Will you won't you do you don't you want to go to bed?
What a bringdown
There's a tea-leaf about in the family
Who'll end up in a flowery dell
There's a tea-afloat in the Rosie Lee
Aylesburying ding-dong bell
Take a butchers at the dodgy mincers of old Bill
Aristotle's Orchestra are living on the pill
One of them gets very very prickly when he's ill
And you know what you know in your head
Will you won't you do you don't you want to make more bread?
What a Bringdown
mostly rhyming slang tates =cold jamjar car hamspead heath teeth daisy roots boots tealeaf thief flowery dell cell Aylesbury Duck = f**k ding dong bell hell mincers mince pies eyes Old Bill = the Police bread = money, head is a drug-smoking hippy