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I don't remember the whole song either, yet, sung to "the old grey mare", porpillated just fits better rhythmically.
We had some wicked lyrics for this I'll save for when I can contact friends who remember!!!
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the only line i remember for the English version went
He fell on pile of...
Shine your button with Brass-o,
Its only tu'pence a tin, You can by it, or nick it from Woolworths
This one really brings back memories of my schooldays, when it was a great favourite. The full version, as sung at Latymer Upper School, is as follows: My ole man was a lavatory cleaner,
'e cleaned them ev-ery night
And when 'e came 'ome in the morning
'e was covered all over in -
Burnish your buttons with Brasso
It's only free-ha'pence a tin;
You can buy it or swipe it from Woolworths
But I doubt if they've got any in.
Some say that 'e died orv a fever,
And some say that 'e died orv a fit;
But I know very well what 'e died orv -
'e died of the smell of the -
Burnish your buttons wiv Brasso
etc etc.
As for What a mouth, what a mouth, what an awfull mouth he had!...." about a the guy who fell asleep with his jaw agape, and the coal truck filled it, ...
, this is , I thinka traditional song that was adapted for use in "Half a sixpence" - the stage musical version of H.G.Wells' "Kipps" and sung by the inimitable Tommy Steele ( who I remember singing in a "Skiffle Group" back in the sixties, in a Coffee Bar in Soho, London)
I can't remember the whole lyric, but the chorus went something like this:-
What a mahf (mouth), what a mahf,
what a norf an' sarf
Blimey! what a mahf 'e'd got.
It looked just like a steamboat funnel or a railway arch or the Blackwall Tunnel - - - -
What a mahf (mouth), what a mahf,
what a norf an' sarf
'e's never bin known to larf.
If 'e did, it's a penny to a quid
'Is face would fall in 'alf.
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Carpal Tunnel
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this thread di'nt even get off the first page without going wildly askew -- terms of endearment indeed.
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This is the official version that my son learned a few years ago:
Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat,
Dirty little birdie feet,
French-fried eyeballs rolling down the bloody street,
And me without a spoon.
(I'll use a straw.)
That last line is to the tune of "And man-y mor-rre" that can be added at the end of Happy Birthday.
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Jackie reprises:
...................Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
...................Mutilated monkey meat,
Which I'll agree to
But continues:
...................Dirty little birdie feet,
...................French-fried eyeballs rolling down the bloody street,
...................And me without a spoon.
...................(I'll use a straw.)
Which is nothing at all like anything I have ever heard.
Well, except for the line about the spoon, which I think is from the old blues song Teeny weeny bit of your love..
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Not really a term of endearment, but of rapture and longing:
A neo-popular slang among the California 13-somethings is "of death."
A good dancer has the "moves of death."
A well-put-together young man or woman has the "body of
death."
This can become quite confusing, as when an easy homework assignment becomes the "homework of death."
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