Pressed Rat & Warthog

Lyrics by Ginger Baker

Pressed rat & warthog have closed down their shop
They didn't want to; twas all they had got.
Selling atonal apples, amplified heat,
And pressed rats collection of dog legs and feet.

Sadly they left, telling no one goodbye.
Pressed rat wore red jodhpurs, warthog a striped tie.
Between them, they carried a three-legged sack,
Went straight round the corner and never came back.

Pressed rat and warthog have closed down their shop.
The bad captain madman had told them to stop
Selling atonal apples, amplified heat,
And pressed rats collection of dog legs and feet.

The bad captain madman had ordered their fate.
He laughed and stomped off with a nautical gate.
The gate turned into a deroga tree
And his pegleg got woodworm and broke into three.

Pressed rat and warthog have closed down their shop.
They didn't want to; twas all they had got.
Selling atonal apples, amplified heat,
And pressed rats collection of dog legs and feet.

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Ginger Baker wrote Pressed Rat & Warthog with Mike Talor in 1968. It was recorded and sung by him on the Wheels of Fire album.

Ginger's comment about his song: "... it was a silly goon inside joke..."

Ginger did not perform this live with Cream until their reunion concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London in 2005.