Police surrounded the house in Oxford's sidney street last May, after 51 year old Roger Jones threatened to shoot a tax inspector and a bailiff.

Roger Jones also ended his fourteen year association with the club.

The song, or a modified version of it, has been used in the Roger Jones musical From Pharaoh to Freedom.

"The mayor's concern was safety and stability for the community," said Roger Jones, the mayor's chief of staff.

The bookseller in question, by the way, is Roger Jones' assistant Jim Wolland, with whom one can but sympathise.

Roger Jones (born 1954) is an American poet.

(Charlotte Paterson and Roger Jones respond to the author's criticisms below.)

He looked for a friend, Roger Jones, and found only his empty truck and his burning apartment.

Barricaded inside, Roger Jones, a 52 year old self-employed electrician, who'd allegedly threatened with a shotgun 3 men who'd called at his home.

Roger Jones has now been charged with an offence under the Firearms Act and with making threats to kill.