Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
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Iron Maiden
“Roll Over Vic Vella” is a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven” featuring spoken intro and outro pieces by longtime Iron Maiden roadie Vic Vella talking with Steve Harris.
The song is on the B-side of the From Here to Eternity single.
Vic Vella:
...well
Steve:
Oh yeah?
Vic:
Went down ten feet, got a JCB from the road, yeah, 'cause my other one wouldn't reach. Dug it out... after ten or fifteen minutes he went back to the hole to check the height... full of water! Must have come from the river, eh?
Steve:
Dunno...someone must have pissed in it
Vic:
Say well, fucking big piss... somebody did
Someone:
Something you were doing down the
Vic:
Trying to feed it through the ground, it's like a well. About three feet deep So I....that's right, fucking John shit himself. There was soil, it's like quicksand.... he went down there to spread the fucking soil, and he's sinking in, int' he. He suddenly reached for the fucking fork lift and I lifted up he couldn't reach it... he was shitting himself. He was just going by the at the end of the boots. He said "I'm fucking going, I'm going! Just lower the fucking forklift quick!" And he grabbed hold of it, so I had to lift it up with him hanging on the end of it. Good job he didn't let go otherwise right in the fucking mud!
[Guitar Solo: Dave Murray]
[Verse 1]
Gonna write a little letter, gonna mail it to my local MP
He's a Maltese man and he's mowing the lawn my way
Roll over Vic Vella, give me more bales of hay
[Chorus]
Roll over Vic Vella, Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella, Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella, don't you mow that lawn my way
[Verse 2]
Early in the morning I'm giving you a warning
Don't you step on my tractor blades
Hey devil, devil he's on the fiddle
And he ain't got nothing to lose
Roll over Vic Vella, tell the tax man the bad news
[Chorus]
Roll over Vic Vella, Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella, Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella, don't you tell the tax man the news
[Verse 3]
You want to buy a truck and need a new VCR
Vic he gonna say he knows where they are
Roll over Vic Vella, I see that panda-car
[Solo: Dave Murray]
[Tape with Steve & Vic speaking]
[Chorus]
Roll over Vic Vella, Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella, don't you play those games with me
[Chorus]
Roll over Vic Vella, Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella, Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella, don't you play those games with me
[Chorus]
Roll over Vic Vella, Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella, Roll over Vic Vella
Roll over Vic Vella, don't you play that game with me
[Bruce nonsense talk]
[Tape with Steve & Vic speaking]
Roll Over Vic Vella was written by Chuck Berry & Iron Maiden.
Roll Over Vic Vella was produced by Steve Harris & Martin Birch.
Iron Maiden released Roll Over Vic Vella on Mon Jun 29 1992.