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Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake DigiTrad: FINNEGAN'S OTHER WAKE FINNEGAN'S WAKE Related threads: (origins) Origins: Tim Finnegan's / Finigan's Wake (34) Tune Req: Finnegans Wake (7) Finnegan's Wake (progressive folk group) (1) |
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Subject: Milligan's Wake From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 01 Mar 02 - 06:15 PM Here's a song I wrote today and posted in this thread - and now I've stuck it up on a website of some of my songs, with a few links to do with Spike Milligan and the Goons (including them singing the Ying Tong Song.)
And for the convenience of anyone who would like to see it - or like to sing it - here are the words:
Milligan's Wake
Spike Milligan was a mighty man,
When Milligan came to the undertakers
And up in the church they all were weeping, March 1st 2002 (And that's a true story about him and the undertaker's slab, though it did take place a few years in advance.)
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: Abby Sale Date: 01 Mar 02 - 08:30 PM McGrath...something about him walking down the street with a Behan, as I recall, and the Behan going on talking and then looking around to find no Milligan. Searching the street, he found Milligan as you say. Whimsey was the man, yes. A fitting sons for him, I think. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 02 Mar 02 - 04:45 AM According to the Goon Show Preservation Society Spike was born in 1918, not 1919, and was 83, not 82. I reckon they'd be more reliable on this than the BBC.
So I've changed the song on my website accordingly. There are a couple of other minor changes, and there may be a few more to come. You have to ease a song in like a pair of shoes. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: Abby Sale Date: 02 Mar 02 - 10:25 AM The always 100%-guaranteed-accurate-you-can-bet-your-home-and-children-on-it "Happy!" file gives: Sir Spike Milligan was born April 16, 1918 in Ahmed Nagar, India (dFeb 27, 2002). His father was Irish Captain in the British Raj and Milligan lived in India until he was fifteen. At that time, his father retired from the military and the family moved to England. [see http://www.fireflycafe.org/spike/bio.html] On 12/29/2000, Milligan was knighted in the New Years Honours list. It is however an honorary title as he is an Irish citizen. Not 'sons' song. A fitting song. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: The Pooka Date: 02 Mar 02 - 02:00 PM Hurrah fer McGrath! Magnificent. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 02 Mar 02 - 03:03 PM I've just got back from The Sun Runner, Hitchin. Am I the first mudcatter to hear this song Kevin? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: little john cameron Date: 02 Mar 02 - 03:24 PM Great stuff,me ould trout.ljc |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 02 Mar 02 - 03:29 PM Well, I think you will have been, Keith - unless someone else saw it on the site and sang it somewhere. That was the first time I'd sung it, anyway. (And I've put the changes that came in when I sang it on the website version). |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 03 Mar 02 - 10:39 AM Great song, as usual Kevin. Keith. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: Dave Bryant Date: 04 Mar 02 - 04:22 AM Do you just sing it to the straight Finnegan's Wake tune or do you vary for the "Ying-tong" bit, Kevin. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: Nigel Parsons Date: 04 Mar 02 - 04:39 AM On "Heroes of Comedy" (Saturday night) Eric Sykes claimed to have been with Spike when he lay down outside an undertaker's & shouted "Shop". Quite possibly this is one Spike perpetrated several times, with different people. Much akin to the young lad who goes into a chip shop late on Friday evening and asks "Have you got plenty of chips left?" "Yes" comes the reply "Well you shouldn't have cooked so many!" (boy runs off.) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 04 Mar 02 - 06:03 AM Or the Oxford joke of phoning up Jesus College on Christmas Day. "Is that Jesus?" "Yes" "Well, Happy birthday!"
I sang it as Finnegans Wake all the way through. But I might experiment with Dave's sugestion. Perhaps in the last verse, or it might get out of hand. It might be quite fun to segue (as they say, rather grotesquely)into a full blooded rendering of the Ying Tong Song. (Here is a link to the words, with I'm walking backwards for Christmas as well for good measure. And here is a Real Audio version of part of it.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Milligan's Wake From: Mikey joe Date: 05 Mar 02 - 11:51 AM Thanks McGrath I sang it last night and it recieved much acclaim. The song that is not my singing. Well done. I did of course give you the well deserved credit. Slán leat Mj |
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