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Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:28 am
by Loretta_Archive
Knees up Mother Brown
Under the table you must go
Ee-i-ee-i-ee-i-oh!
whoop whoop
Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:34 am
by wellsyuk_Archive
Anyone know what the lyrics are actually about for this cockney number?
Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:35 am
by Major_Archive
Wasted away again in Margaritaville
Searchin' for my lost shaker a salt
Wat
Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:35 am
by Loretta_Archive
If I catch you bending,
I'll saw your legs right off,
Knees up! Knees Up!
Don't get the breeze up,
Knees up Mother Brown!
Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:36 am
by Loretta_Archive
Oh My! What a rotten song!
What a rotten song!
Oh, What a rotten song!
Oh My! What a rotten song!
What a rotten singer too!
Knees up Mother Brown!
Knees up Mother Brown!
Under the table you must go
Ee-i-ee-i-ee-i-oh!
If I catch you bending,
I'll saw your legs right off,
Knees up! Knees Up!
Don't get the breeze up,
Knees - up - Mother - Brown!
Ow's yer farver? All right!
Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:37 am
by Loretta_Archive
if you ignore the idiots they will go away eventually
Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:40 am
by Loretta_Archive
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame,
But I know it's nobody's fault.
Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:47 am
by sparky_Archive
Loretta wrote:Oh My! What a rotten song!
What a rotten song!
Oh, What a rotten song!
Oh My! What a rotten song!
What a rotten singer too!
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If I catch you bending,
I'll saw your legs right off,
Knees up! Knees Up!
These lines are particularly good. Looking it up, this song has
a bit of history. But then, so do most good old songs.
The only version I remember was a nasty, playground version with the lines "You fat bastard! You fat bastard!" added in.
I'll raise you an Albert Ramsbottom:
Stanley Holloway wrote: Now Albert 'ad 'eard about lions-
'Ow they was ferocious and wild;
To see lion lyin' so peaceful
Just didn't seem right to the child.
So straightway the brave little feller,
Not showin' a morsel of fear,
Took 'is stick with the 'orse's 'ead 'andle
And stuck it in Wallace's ear.
You could see that the lion din't like it,
For givin' a kind of a roll,
'E pulled Albert inside the cage with 'im
And swallered the little lad - 'ole!
Now Mother 'ad seen this occurrence,
And not knowin' what to do next,
She 'ollered "Yon lion's et Albert!"
An' Father said "Ee, I am vexed."
They complained to an animal keeper
Who said "My, wot a nasty mis'ap;
Are you sure it's your boy 'e's eaten?"
Pa said, "Am I sure? There's 'is cap!"
The manager 'ad to be sent for;
'E came and 'e said "Wot's to-do?"
Ma said "Yon lion's et Albert,
And 'im in 'is Sunday clothes, too!"
Father said "Right's right, young feller-
I think it's a shame and a sin
To 'ave our son et by a lion
And after we paid to come in."
My dad has a very battered old vinyl of this that he used to play to us when we were little.
Edit: Oh, and why not have a bit of the old audio.
Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:32 am
by wellsyuk_Archive
My old man's a dustman is my all time fave..
Knees up Mother Brown
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:46 am
by Rimbaud III_Archive
wellsyuk wrote:My old man's a dustman is my all time fave..
...he's got fucking cancer, and what do you think of that?