Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy (Jeremy Taylor)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy
From:
Date: 17 Jan 00 - 08:09 AM

I have an unconfirmed recollection that there was a revue called "Wait a Minim" at the Fortune Theatre in London, sometime around 1965, and this song was either performed in the show or released on record at the same time. Here are a few, sometimes tentative, suggestions.
I'm sure it was "nigger balls" and "Canada Dry" in the chorus. I think verse 3 has a rather different ending:
/Cos Willie's gonna moorer (sounds like) that lerrer Yankee/
Verse 4, after "Chevrolet" is
There's lots of sand and sea and sun/ And fish in the aquarium/ It's a lekker place for a holiday.
I think there was a disappointment verse, imperfectly recalled as
Ag, soos, Daddy/ If we can't go to Bioscope/ something something something, Life's a heck of a bore/ If you won't take us to the zoo / then what the heck else can we do/ but go on out and moorer all the uggies next door.
I also recall a "last try" verse:
"Ag, please, Daddy" which is cut off by the angry reply "Foetsaak!" (Be Off! Or something similar).

Apologies for hazy memory and ghastly Afrikaans orthography. Can I just say that for me one of the delights of Mudcat is the posting of songs that I thought no-one else in the world remembered, and the collective memory it draws from other contributors.

Malcolm Smith.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 17 Jan 00 - 03:49 AM

Found my earlier fragment: Calico Rice should be Canada Dry!
RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy
From: Allan S,
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 11:16 AM

THere is also a current version In RSA to do with The world cup Rugby match As I do not Prat die Tal I can not translate. It is very much like the above . With the mention of cracker jacks, fire balls, Boere vurst, Hula hoops Etc. Oh also reference to the AWB Tot Seins Allan

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 08:32 AM

As I remember it the sweet "Knickerpulls" was actually "Niggerballs" but today we'd want to use an alternative (I'm surprised Jeremy didn't)! And, I think, Calico RICE. Can't remember what was in Durban.
RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 08:23 AM

Thanks, Brian. A college friend of mine who came from SA (well the apartheid regine ran his liberal parents out) used to sing this and I had only reconstructed a fragment from memory. (Well it was 1968!).
I think a South African is needed to cnfirm the tradename/nicknames of the sweeties/candies
RtS

Subject: Lyr Add: AG PLEEZ DADDY (Jeremy Taylor)
From: Wotcha
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 08:12 AM

I need some help filling in the gaps on the following, but thought this song would be a fine contribution to the kids section of the database:

AG PLEEZ DADDY -- Copyright to Jeremy Taylor

(1) Ag Pleez Daddy/
Won't you take us to a drive-in/
All 6, 7 of us, 8, 9, 10/
We wanna see a flick about Tarzan and the ape men/
When the show is over/
You can bring us back again.

Chorus:
Popcorn, chewing gum/
Peanuts and bubblegum/
Ice cream, candy floss, and Eskimo Pie/
Knickerpulls [?} and liquorice/
Pepsi Cola, Ginger beer, and Calico Rye[?}/

(2) Ag Pleez Daddy/
Won't you take us to the funfair/
We wanna have a ride on the bumper cars/
We'll buy a stick of candy floss/
And eat it on the octopus/
And then we'll take a rocket ship that goes to Mars./

(3) Ag Pleez Daddy/
Won't you take us to the wrestling/
We want to see that oaf called Sky High Lee/
Whe he fights Willie Liefenburg/
There's gonna be a murder/
Poor Willie's gonna don a red bloody hanky/

(4) Ag Pleez Daddy/
Won't you take us off to Durban/
It's only 8 hours, in a Chevrolet/
There's fantasy and ...[...]../
There's tons of fish in the aquarium/
The ideal place for a holiday/
AG PLEEZ DADDY!!!

*Ag is pronounced much like ach or och.

Apparently, according to earlier thread this was a number one song on South Africa's music radio. It certainly is remembered by kids I knew from Malawi, Rhodesia, and RSA. Appreciate the help filling in the blank lines.

Cheers,
Brian