Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This song is the story of "The Dalby Spook", a ghost of a talking mongoose reputedly living in a farmhouse near Dalby, a small village in the Isle of Man.
The following information and more can be found in Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef#Story) under the title "Gef":
The story first appeared in 1929 and attracted interest both on the island and further afield when it was investigated by parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor.
Some investigators of the era as well as contemporary critics have concluded that the phenomenon was a hoax that the Irving family perpetuated by using ventriloquism.
A recent film, a black comedy starring Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver and Christopher Llloyd entitled "Nandor Fodor and the talking Mongoose" Tells the story.
I do not know who wrote this song, but they have used a little 'poetic licence in changing the family name to 'Irvine', to rhymn with twenty nine.
PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAD A BIT OF A SENIOR MOMENT WHEN I ENTERED THE CHORDS IN THE CHORUS AND FOR SOME REASON i SHOWED Bb WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN C.
This song is the story of "The Dalby Spook", a ghost of a talking mongoose reputedly living in a farmhouse near Dalby, a small village in the Isle of Man.
The following information and more can be found in Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef#Story) under the title "Gef":
The story first appeared in 1929 and attracted interest both on the island and further afield when it was investigated by parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor.
Some investigators of the era as well as contemporary critics have concluded that the phenomenon was a hoax that the Irving family perpetuated by using ventriloquism.
A recent film, a black comedy starring Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver and Christopher Llloyd entitled "Nandor Fodor and the talking Mongoose" Tells the story.
I do not know who wrote this song, but they have used a little 'poetic licence in changing the family name to 'Irvine', to rhymn with twenty nine.
PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAD A BIT OF A SENIOR MOMENT WHEN I ENTERED THE CHORDS IN THE CHORUS AND FOR SOME REASON i SHOWED Bb WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN C.
