DONOVAN: hey everybody i wrote a fun song about a hurdy gurdy man
DAVID FINCHER: *40 years later* hey great song donovan
DONOVAN: :)
DAVID FINCHER: for murders to happen to
Just now realizing how weird it is that the hurdy-gurdy man goes around singing “hurdy-gurdy, hurdy-gurdy, hurdy-gurdy”. Imagine if a guitar player came up to you and started singing “guitar, guitar, guitar”
I was reading about that instrument yesterday, and Donovan accidentally sparked a revival in hurdy gurdy interest among young people like fifty years ago.
MICHAEL CUESTA: Yeah it’s a great tune.
DONOVAN: Thanks. I just hope that…
CUESTA: Brian Cox playing as a pedophile blasting it out of his hot rod seems like a perfect fit!
DONOVAN: Not again!
I’d actually never heard Hurdy-Gurdy Man before the killings started, and I don’t really like the song, although I’ve enjoyed other Donovan songs in the past. What exactly is a hurdy-gurdy man? It’s gotta be some slightly-antiquated British slang with a very precise meaning, right?