Jimmy C:

"
Ho, HO, Ho, Bells and Johnny Walker
"

Of all the stunnning misreadings of this line, this bloody has to take the frelking biscuit ...

There are two echt-readings:

... the VP an the cider

or:

... the Lanliq and the cider.

Both readings turn on Fortified South African Wine.

There was a thing you could do with this, but ...

Both Bells and Johnny Walker were blended scotch whiskies -- NOT where the hardman frae Brigton wid be coming from.

Geeuz a break ...

The song was written by Carl McDougall (Hamish Imlach sang it but he didn't write it -- Carl McDougal did.)



Robin

{I once tried to chase-down all the versions of this.)

But NEVER in all my born days have I +ever+ encountered a version that switches from cheap sherry to blended scotch.

:-(

Robin

(Somewhere, I prolly have The Original, that might negociate between VP and Lanliq. As if.

R2.)

Oh ...

"
Ha Sahara under a camel
"

... it was "Sahara an ra camels"

I'm not sure whether anyone has ever pointed this out, but The Sunday Post in the early sixties was running a series of "I Was Tripped into the French Foreign Legion" stories.

So "Sahara an ra camels" is a DOUBLE fucking joke -- My da sneezed for furty eight hours fur the Post.

{double sigh}

Robin