The song captures the atmosphere of a village cricket match and is an elegy to the game as played during Harper's youth.

My childhood memories of the heroic stature of the footballers and cricketers of the day invoke the sounds that went along with them.

Paramount among these was the traditional Northern English brass band, which was a functional social component through all four seasons, being seen and heard in many different contexts.

[2]An elegiac song, the last on the album, Harper uses the game of cricket as an metaphor for death, in its nostalgic sense for what has passed.

This is underlined as the Grimethorpe Colliery Band who enter after two minutes, arranged by David Bedford.