Subject: Paddy Roberts From: brid widder Date: 02 Sep 01 - 01:46 PM does anyone remember Paddy Roberts...I remember listening to my brother's records in the sixties...I'd love to hear them again...and wonder if anyone has the lyrics to ' The Tattooed Lady' or When i was a Little Wolf cub and you were a Brownie'...if there is a site for Paddy Roberts I'm sure one of you will know of it.... |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: nutty Date: 02 Sep 01 - 01:59 PM If you put "PADDY ROBERTS" in the Digitrad and Forum search box you will unearth a variety of previos threads ans a load of posted lyrics |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE TATTOOED LADY (Paddy Roberts) From: GUEST,nigel.g.parsons@btinternet.com Date: 02 Sep 01 - 03:00 PM THE TATTOOED LADY (Paddy Roberts) Well I was a bit of a lad I admit, My past was a trifle shady. Until in the end I went right round the bend And married a tattooed lady. I immediately saw there were pictures galore, On ev'ry available corner As I studied her frame, very soon I became An expert in flora and fauna On one of her feet, you were liable to meet A Master of Hounds in his habit. While right round her waist, in impeccable taste, Was a python devouring a rabbit. On the back of each knee was a small chimpanzee, On her thigh was a Knight of The Garter And just for a laugh they had put on her calf Eight bars of the Moonlight Sonata One evening I found as I ambled around I was feeling an absolute Charlie 'Cos I couldn't be sure if the sketch on her jaw Was Picasso or Salvador Dali I loved all the ships on one side of her hips The view in Peru on the other. But I was struck dumb when I found on her tum A caricature of her mother Well this was much more than a man can endure, Though I made the most earnest endeavour. So I scuttled away, and I'm happy to say It was Ta ta tattoo for ever, Ta ta tattoo for ever, Ta ta tattoo (2 bar run) for ever
Paddy Roberts' "Tattooed Lady" (from memory) |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: brid widder Date: 02 Sep 01 - 03:35 PM thanks Nigel...thats brill...I tried the forum search nutty but it seems to be mostly about the Belle of Barking Creek...does anyone else do any of this material? |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: brid widder Date: 02 Sep 01 - 03:38 PM thanks Nigel...thats brill...I tried the forum search nutty but it seems to be mostly about the ballad of Bethnal Green...does anyone else do any of this material? ooops.. |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: brid widder Date: 02 Sep 01 - 04:04 PM had a closer look and there's lots there....thanks both of you. |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: GUEST Date: 25 Jan 07 - 09:09 AM Hi all. Looking for the words for "When I was a little wolf cub and you were a brownie" anyone able to help me please. Cheers Richard |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: nutty Date: 25 Jan 07 - 09:39 AM I have words to Paddy Roberts songs but at the moment I am getting ready to go away for a few days. I will post after the weekend if nobody beats me to it. |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: Splott Man Date: 25 Jan 07 - 09:58 AM The song is called Follow Me. I think I've got the words at home, I'll check later. |
Subject: Lyr Add: LOVE IN A MIST (Paddy Roberts) From: alanabit Date: 25 Jan 07 - 02:47 PM One of my favourites from memory. Other 'Catters, please correct my mistakes! LOVE IN A MIST (Paddy Roberts) Why do you gaze at me in the craziest fashion? Can I resist those eyes that are misty with tears? Is it that you're on the brink of enduring passion? Or is it because all night you've been suzzling beers? I'm cast in a spell by the perfume of yellow mimosa I'm drugged by your charms and the fact that our arms are entwined But somehow I feel the reason you're stealing closer Is that if you let go you'll fall on your small behind I can tell at a glance that you're not dry eyed But I can't figure out if you're starry eyed or pie eyed In come kind of a trance you're gently swaying Is it the music – or is something making you sick? How you beguile my heart when you're smiling so sweetly One of two things has happened; I wish I knew which Do I control your body and soul completely? Or is it because you're drunk as a fiddler's bitch? |
Subject: Lyr Add: FOLLOW ME (Paddy Roberts) From: Splott Man Date: 29 Jan 07 - 04:51 AM Found it! FOLLOW ME (Paddy Roberts) When I was a little wolf cub and you were a brownie, We always remembered our good turn each day. First it was your turn, and then it was my turn, And life was so wonderful, carefree and gay. Follow me, follow me, Tonight is the night of the Jamboree. When I was a little wolf cub and you were a brownie, We learned all the regulations of which there were lots. We wandered into the clover, and tried them all over, And you did your semaphore while I did my knots. Follow me, follow me, How's about that for a change of key? When I was a little wolf cub and you were a brownie, We did everything a wolf cub and brownie should do. I wanted to be a boy scout so's I could salute you With three fingers vertical instead of just two. Follow me, follow me, We'll go to the grotto; we'll get slightly blotto. To hell with the motto! Just fo-o-ollow me. ©1959 Essex Music |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: GUEST,beemer Date: 03 Mar 07 - 10:36 PM The song I remember from the 50s. I married a tattooed lady, it was on a cold and winter's day, and tattooed all around her body was the map of the good old USA. And every night before I'd go to sleep, I'd pull down the quilt and I'd take a peep. And on her neck was Minnesota, on her shoulder Tennessee, and tattooed on her back, that good old rack of a sack, the place that I long to be. And that's all I remember. I'd love to have the rest of the lyrics. |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: alanabit Date: 04 Mar 07 - 04:10 AM Was that Graucho Marx's song "Lydia The Tattooed Lady"? I believe the Paddy Roberts song was very different. He was a South African, who obviously worked in the UK for a while. This does not sound like him at all. |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: scouse Date: 04 Mar 07 - 05:41 AM Does anyone happen to know the rest of this song..I'm sure it was Paddy that sang and wrote it. I tell a tale of a jelous male and a girl of sweet sixteen, She was blond and dumb and she lived with her Mum, On the verge of Bethnal Green. She worked all week for a dear old Greek, For her Dad wad on the Dole. But her one delight was a Friday night, when she had a bit of Rock 'n' Roll. As Aye, Phil |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: bubblyrat Date: 04 Mar 07 - 06:38 AM 2nd verse onwards— Then one fine day, in the month of May, She found her big romance. He was smart and sleek, with a scar on his cheek, And a pair of drainpipe pants. And she thought, "With you, I could be so true Through all the years to come!"-- For she loved the gay, abandoned way That he chewed his chewing gum. CHORUS: To me rite-fal-la, to me itty(or titty!)-fal-lal, To me itty-bitty(or titty)-fal-lal-day. It started well, because he fell For all her girlish charms, But he had some doubt, when he caught her out, In someone else's arms --- And he said, "Look here! You know, my dear, This is going a bit too far!" And he went quite white, and he sloshed her, right In the middle of her cha-cha-cha. CHORUS So he went before a man of the law, Who said, "This will not do! I've had enough of this sort of stuff That we get from the likes of you!" And she was peeved when he received A longish term in "clink". In a fit of pique, she married the Greek, And now she's dressed in mink! CHORUS TWICE. |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts From: alanabit Date: 04 Mar 07 - 01:01 PM The Ballad of Bethnal Green. There is another thread up about it now and it has been posted more than once on a Paddy Roberts thread here. |
Subject: RE: Paddy Roberts - lost song lyrics From: Rondie Date: 10 Oct 07 - 07:45 PM There is a song I am keen to identify which I THINK was one of Paddy Roberts's, but cannot be absolutely certain. It is about a small boy and a little girl whom he had a bit of a crush on who I believe was called Valerie (and her surname was given in the lyric - it was something like Appleby I think - I'm fairly certain it had three syllables (clutching at straws here!) All I remember is it was very funny (at least at the time - which was in the sixties). The only lyrics from it that I recall come towards the end of the song and go something like this: Curses, curses, she wants to play nurses And I want to play at war. I've looked at the titles of the tracks on all the currently available Paddy Roberts albums, and none of them seems to fit with what I remember about this song. I know this is not much to go on, but is there anybody out there who might throw more light on this - a title, or more lyrics - anything really, that might help be get hold of the the lyrics, or better still a recording of the song? |
Subject: Lyr Add: VALERIE WILKINS (Clive Harvey) From: Herga Kitty Date: 10 Oct 07 - 07:57 PM Rondie - the song you've mentioned sounds like "Valerie Wilkins" by Clive Harvey of Roaring Jelly. Later than the 60s though - it is on their second LP "In the Roar" -TOPIC 12TS420- released in 1981. See previous thread valerie wilkins Kitty VALERIE WILKINS (Clive Harvey) Valerie Wilkins comes to play, but she is always leader She always gets her own way, the rotten selfish bleeder And the reason she bosses me, I'm three foot seven she's four foot three And besides she's 3 months older than me so I do what I'm told 'cause she is six and a quarter, and I'm just six years old Who's that knocking on my door, big Valerie Wilkins and she lives next door Curses, curses, she wants to play at nurses and I want to play at war! When she's in a good mood, she lets me play at cowboys but today she's got her nurses apron on, so we'll have to play at hospitals now boys And there's no fun for me in store for she makes me lie in bed for an hour or more and pretends I've got pneumonia when I've only got a cold 'cause she is six and a quarter, and I'm just six years old Who's that knocking on my door, big Valerie Wilkins and she lives next door Curses, curses, she wants to play at nurses and I want to play at war! Then one day at teatime, I said I wanted to play with my rifle But Valerie threw a tantrum, she spat straight in my trifle And blimey she screamed at me, she pulled my hair and she kicked me on the knee causing me to spill my tea all on my sausage roll 'cause she is six and a quarter, and I'm just six years old Who's that knocking on my door, big Valerie Wilkins and she lives next door Curses, curses, she wants to play at nurses and I want to play at war! Three months later I realised, I was six and a quarter I'd caught up with Valerie, could hardly hold my water and I was happy as could be, but when I told my mum she explained to me You can never be as old as Valerie, and she began to laugh 'cause I was six and a quarter - Yeah! but she was six and a half Who's that knocking on my door, big Valerie Wilkins and she lives next door Curses, curses, she wants to play at nurses and I want to play at war [loud knocking] go away I'm not coming out he hasn't finished his tea he's not well |
Subject: Lyr Req: THE ARCHITECT (Paddy Roberts) From: GUEST,Annie Date: 21 Sep 08 - 09:09 PM THE ARCHITECT (Paddy Roberts)
Once there was an awful lot of nothing, just nothing, |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: GUEST Date: 26 Feb 10 - 01:24 PM Did Paddy Roberts sing :nothing ever happens to some girls,there the sort that most men prefer,but they'd be so happy if they only knew how to do the sort of naughty things that other girls do |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: GUEST,PJB Date: 10 Aug 10 - 12:21 PM I have lyrics and records of Paddy Roberts songs, but can't find the music scores anywhere. Are they published? Where can I get them? |
Subject: Lyr Add: AUNTIE BRIDGET (Paddy Roberts) From: Peter the Squeezer Date: 24 Aug 10 - 09:14 AM Found this one on an old LP record -
AUNTIE BRIDGET |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: GUEST,Johan Date: 25 Aug 10 - 07:47 AM Anybody got a recording and/or the rest of the lyrics for this? She's the angel of the great white way you will see her night and day We're mighty proud of Sally the sunshine of the ally the angel of the great white way You'll know her by her bonnet and the crowd she stands apart there's a red red ribbon on it and a place for everyone in her heart |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: Jim Dixon Date: 27 Aug 10 - 06:31 PM MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU SUCKERS has been posted in its own thread, here. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: GUEST,Bridget The Dame Date: 26 Sep 10 - 06:35 PM Peter, I've been looking for the lyrics to this wonderful song for ages. Thank you so much for recording them here. Bridget x |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: GUEST,cHARLES rICHARDS Date: 01 Jul 11 - 05:07 PM tHE MONKEY DEFINITELY HAD A BLUE BEHIND AND OF COURSE BOOM BOOM THE HORSE |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: Gurney Date: 02 Jul 11 - 05:08 PM A missing verse from The Tattooed Lady up there. I think. Some things I found out, I just won't talk about, I find it's inclined to embarrass, but I give you my word, though it may sound absurd, It was just like the Louvre in Paris. I'll check when I get a minute to sort the LP out. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: Gurney Date: 03 Jul 11 - 03:51 AM Can't, I'm afraid. A friend has the LP. |
Subject: Lyr Add: Tattooed Lady (Paddy Roberts) From: Nigel Parsons Date: 04 Mar 13 - 04:57 PM THE TATTOOED LADY (Paddy Roberts) Oh I was a bit of a lad I admit, My past was a trifle shady. Until in the end I went right round the bend And married a tattooed lady. I immediately saw there were pictures galore, Round ev'ry available corner. As I studied her frame, very soon I became An expert in flora and fauna. On the back of each knee was a small chimpanzee, On her thigh was a Knight of The Garter. And just for a laugh they had put on her calf Eight bars of the Moonlight Sonata. One evening I found as I ambled around I was feeling an absolute Charlie 'Cos I couldn't be sure if the sketch on her jaw Was Picasso or Salvador Dali. Some things I foud out I just won't talk about, I find it's inclined to embarrass. But I give you my word, thought it may sound absurd, It was just like The Louvre in Paris. On one of her feet, you were liable to meet A Master of Hounds in his habit. And right round her waist, in impeccable taste, Was a python devouring a rabbit. I loved all the ships on one side of her hips The view in Peru on the other. But I was struck dumb when I found on her tum A caricature of her mother. For this was much more than a man could endure, Though I made the most earnest endeavour. So I scuttled away, and I'm happy to say It was Ta ta tattoo for ever, Ta ta tattoo for ever, Ta ta tattoo (2 bar run) for ever Lyrics transcribed from "Paddy Roberts tries again" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: GUEST,Woody Wood Date: 13 May 13 - 02:54 AM Has anyone got the lyrics to 'Our Litle Village is a real showplace ? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: GUEST,Steve Thorp Date: 27 Jun 18 - 04:03 AM Oh woe is me and alas alack, a tear rolls down my cheek, As I tell the story of Nellie Clack, the belle of Barking Creek. Her hair was yellow as the morning sun, except where the black shows threw, And her age has been a steady twenty one, since 1922. One lovely evening when the moon was new she stood by the garden gate, While idly wondering what to do poor Nellie met her fate. For a great big stoker by the name of Bert had come into town that day, And he said “cor blimey what a piece of skirt” and he carried her away. And she darned his socks and she fried his bacon and she scarecly paused for breath, And very soon she was overtaken by a fate that is worse than death. For he said “I’m going but I’ll soon be back and I’ll write to you every week” But I know darn well that Nellie Clack is up the Barking Creek. There’s no more to tell of poor little Nell, the Bell of Barking Creek. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: GUEST,Steve Thorp Date: 27 Jun 18 - 04:13 AM I love Mary, shy little blue eyed Mary, warm and glowing as the evening sky, I love Mary, never a bit contrary, and I’ll love her till the day I die. But I’m going out with a blousy old trout called Sadie, she’s right on the ball but she ain’t what you call a lady, as a beauty she’s a stumor but I’ll keep my sense of humour, I can stomach the lot as long as she’s got that old mazoumour?. So I put out the cat and I do this and that for Sadie, and if I keep my health I can end up a wealthy man And though I lov e Mary, pretty little Mary, Mary doesn’t suit my plan, Mary’s just an also ran |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: Nigel Parsons Date: 27 Jun 18 - 05:32 AM Guest Steve: "I Love Mary" is transcribed in full Here Cheers Nigel |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: Peter the Squeezer Date: 27 Jun 18 - 02:40 PM From: GUEST,Woody Wood Has anyone got the lyrics to 'Our Little Village is a real showplace ? OUR LITTLE VILLAGE - Paddy Roberts Our little village is a real showplace, full of old world grace and charm, The fact that nobody ever keeps the laws shouldn't really cause alarm. Each yokel who wanders up and down the joint has a slightly pointed head. The reason they wear that rather vacant grin is they're all so interbred. There's a steeple bell that's as rickety as hell, and will fall down any minute. There's a wishing well, but it's only fair to tell, there's a headless body in it. But such little incidents we always meet in a way discreet and calm. Yes, our little village is a real showplace, full of old world grace and charm. Our little village has an open door, where the rich and poor can mix. They meet up together on a Friday night, and they all get tight as ticks. And folk come to visit us from far an near - in tradition we're so rich. Yet, somehow the visitors get quite a turn every time we burn a witch. Oh the squire's wife had a most unhappy life when they found her on the sofa. It was misconstrued, but they caught her in the nude playing bingo with the chauffeur. They tarred her and feathered her, and threw her out of the house, without a qualm. Yes, our little village is a real showplace, full of old world grace and charm. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs of Paddy Roberts From: Peter the Squeezer Date: 27 Jun 18 - 02:46 PM Our Little Village |
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