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My lovely horse, running through the fields, where are you going with your fetlocks blowing in the wind?
— Father Ted · 1995
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The lyric sounds like a love song and is really about a horse's fetlocks in the wind, which is the joke: Ted and Dougal write what they think Europe wants and produce something heartfelt, tuneless and faintly worrying. It is the show's most singable moment, a pub and wedding favourite, and the subject of a 2014 petition to send it to Eurovision.
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In context
Spoilers for Father TedShow the scene
In "A Song for Europe" (series 2, first aired 5 April 1996), Dougal has Eurosong fever, and Ted decides he and Dougal will write an Irish entry to beat his rival, Father Dick Byrne. They produce "My Lovely Horse" overnight, and Father Jack answers a first performance by shooting Ted's guitar. At the A Song for Ireland final in Dublin the producer picks it anyway, and the episode ends in a hail of nul points. Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews and Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy wrote the song.
Sources (3)
- Wikipedia: A Song for Europe (Father Ted)Synopsis; My Lovely HorseReference checked
- Wikiquote: Father TedSong for Europe sectionReference checked
- Wikipedia: Father TedMusicReference checked
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