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Thread #52618 Message #2019749
Posted By: GUEST
08-Apr-07 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: Jingles you remember.
Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
Tommy Makem & Clancy Bros. Lyrics, Bringin' home the oil, me boys,
Trivia
Gulf Oil sponsored US television coverage (NBC 'Special Reports') of the NASA space launches and missions in the 1960s. One commercial sponsoring this coverage, one of the first commercial music videos of its day, featured an Irish band singing a rousing maritime song with this chorus (note: 'oil' pronounced 'isle', 'boys' pronounced 'byes'):
(Hey!) Bringin' home the oil, me boys, bringin' home the oil!
Sailing all around the world, bringin' home the oil!
A workin' on a giant ship, it's very hard we toil,
A sailin' into Bantry Bay, bringin' home the oil!
With the final verse:
We're buildin' other tankers now to speed more oil to you
The Universe Kuwait, me lads, -Japan and Portugal too
And now the Universe Ireland, I'm very proud to say
Is among the giant ships a-bringin' oil to Bantry Bay
(Chorus)
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse_incident