Richard Stilgoe

Subject: Richard Stilgoe
From: GUEST,D_hand
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 06:51 AM

Saw Richard Stilgoe on 'This is your Life' last night. I must admit he has gone up in my estimation - a very witty ditty writer as well as those musicals. He sang a song with Peter Skeller about the 'Ground Force' transforming his garden which was very funny. Would any one out there possibly have the words?

Subject: RE: Richard Stilgoe
From: nutty
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 06:54 AM

I taped the programme but haven't watched it yet ( taped by mistake as forgot to turn vidoe off) ..... if no-one else comes up with the words , I'll see what I can do

Subject: RE: Richard Stilgoe
From: GUEST,D_hand
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 06:57 AM

Thank you nutty but the show only featured a small extract of the song - but even that would be good.

Subject: RE: Richard Stilgoe
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 08:00 AM

Anyone remember 'Statutory Right of Entry to Your Home'.

Very funny

Skipjack

Subject: RE: Richard Stilgoe
From: GMT
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 08:23 AM

and

Lilly an' Thompson, Australias finest flower
A maiden bowling overs at a hundred miles an hour
She bowls 'em at your ankles
She bowls 'em at you forehead
If she bowls them in the middle
It could hurt you something horrid

Or words to that effect, it's been a long time.

Cheers Gary

Subject: RE: Richard Stilgoe
From: Matt_R
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 08:36 AM

My favorite is right here!

Subject: RE: Richard Stilgoe
From: English Jon
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 08:49 AM

He's still an arrogant, small minded, rude goose-stepping fascist arsehole though. pray you never have to work with him. But yes, very funny. Personal favourite is "I had a big black stallion" in the style of Jake Thackray.

EJ

Subject: RE: Richard Stilgoe
From: Snuffy
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 09:10 AM

He's very good at making anagrams of people's names, and came up with Giscard O'Hitler for himself. I guess you think it's quite apt, English John.

BTW was it Stilgoe who turned Virginia Bottomley into I'm an evil Tory bigot? Perhaps this could be a thread on its own - mudcat and folk anagrams.

Subject: RE: Richard Stilgoe
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 23 - 09:44 AM

For downloading his lyrics I see Richard Stilgoe has a just giving page for the Orpheus charity.
Inspiring and empowering young disabled students to live fulfilling, independent lives.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/richardstilgoemusic


Lyrics & poems available :
Songs with sheet music (PDF and Sibelius versions)
-Joyce the Librarian
-Mrs Beamish
-THE W I Calendar

Poems about music (text and an MP3 recording)
-The Ancient Marriner
-Birth of the ’Cello, The
-Glyndebourne
-Piano, The
-Sonnet on a World Without Music
-Steve
-Very First Music, the Very Last Music , The
-Violin Farm
-Who Pays the Piper

https://richardstilgoe.com/poems.html

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