Last month, I got a copy of Mighty Garvey! and I've listened to it twice now (technically four times because the CD I got has the album in mono and stereo). Because As Is is no longer the Manfred Mann album I got most recently and because I've had it for a while now (about seven months), I'm going to write a few posts in the coming weeks about some of the things I've noticed about the songs on it.
The title line of "Trouble and Tea" ("She's always brewing trouble and tea") contains an instance of zeugma. The verb "brew" governs both "trouble" and "tea," but it has a different sense for each (metaphorical for "trouble" and literal for "tea").
This might be obvious enough not to need pointing out, but I'll note anyway that the mono version has an alto recorder part that's not present in the stereo version.
