[An average funky band is busking on the High Street - "Pick up The Pieces", or somesuch. Drums, guitar, bass, sax and a guy waggling the tambourine. As they come to the end of the tune there's a drab smattering of applause and one or two coins tossed desultorily into an open guitar case. As the rest of the band start to resignedly pack up, a wild-eyed FAN approaches STEVE, the tambourine player, from across the street]
FAN: Oh, wow, that was a-maz-ing!
STEVE: Oh, thanks. We're called The Rotovators, if you fancy coming to see us next Saturday.
FAN: Oh, yeah, right, sure. But, I mean, I wasn't talking about the rest of the band. Just you. You were dynamite. No, wait, what's better than dynamite? C5!
STEVE: Oh, right. Thank you very much.
FAN: Play a song.
STEVE: Oh, sorry, we're just packing up.
FAN: Not them, just you. Play a song for me. On your tambourine.
STEVE: But, I'm not sure it will exactly work all that, err...
FAN: Mr Tambourine man, play a song for me.
STEVE: Sure.
[STEVE waggles his tambourine in a lightly funky, but not very interesting, 16 beat rhythm. FAN freaks out on the pavement, dancing like crazy]
FAN: Yeah! [Sings along] Brown sugar!
STEVE: Actually, that was "Lady In Red".
FAN: Oh, right, yeah, I totally get it now. So, Mr Tambourine man -
STEVE: Steve.
FAN: Mr tambourine Steve, play another song for me. There's no place I'm going to.
STEVE: That figures. [Begins to waggle a very similar rhythm before feeling self-conscious and stopping] Err, no, I think I'd better get moving.
FAN: Yeah, sure. You go.
STEVE: Right.
FAN: You go, and I'll follow you.
STEVE: Pardon me?
FAN: I'll come following you, yeah. You're such a good tambourine man, tambourine man-
STEVE: Steve.
FAN: And you play tambourine songs for me so sense-rippingly well, I think I'm going to just follow you about from now on. That's OK, right?
STEVE: Ummm...
FAN: Yeah. I already know where you live and what's in your bin, so I guess I'll just start with the following, in the jingle jangle morning.
STEVE: In the what morning?
FAN: In the...tomorrow...morning. IMagine it. You can just go about, doing your tambourine man stuff, and I can follow you; you can play all those many, many different and varied tambourine songs, and I'll follow you. It'll be great, we'll be a team: tamboursteve man and his bestest bestest buddy!
STEVE: Yeah, sure. Oh! Look! Look over there! A really big...err...bongo.
FAN: [Spinning round] Ooh, where? [When he turns back round, STEVE has legged it] I can't see it Mr Steve...oh.
[There's a strange whooshy noise. FAN looks up into the sky]
STEVE: [Off] And you're not getting a go on this magic swirling ship either, you bloody weirdo.