Lyr Add: Wheelbarrow Song

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEELBARROW SONG
From: GUEST,Allen
Date: 17 Jun 05 - 03:25 PM

From Viv Stanshall's phenomenal "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End":

(Florrie)
Sitting in a sunken garden...
Pinking in a sinking sun
Thinking of a summer long ago:
When one was twenty-one.

Naming all the flowers so friendly...
Shouting at the shrubs so thick
Lo, behold, Lobelia...
One bite and the Bishop was sick,

(Chorus:)
How nice to be in England...
Now that England's here,
I stand upright in my wheelbarrow,
And pretend I'm Boadicea.
Hi Ho
Hi Ho

(Florrie)
Shy goldfish shady in the green weed,
By gad'flies giddy in the haze...
Here I sit; I knit knit knit,
With the garden gnomes, I say:

(Chorus)
How nice to be in England...
Now that England's here,
I stand upright in my wheelbarrow,
And pretend I'm Boadicea.
Hi Ho
Hi Ho

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: WHEELBARROW SONG
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 17 Jun 05 - 04:43 PM

And I clicked on this thread thinking it was going to be about a poor old man who was crossing the road (3 times), when along came a man with a wheelbarrow (chip potato cart, trolley bus wire wiper, Corporation dustcart wot sucks water out of holes....)

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: WHEELBARROW SONG
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 17 Jun 05 - 04:55 PM

What a strange, peculiar song. I like it.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: WHEELBARROW SONG
From: GUEST,Ian, Nottingham UK
Date: 17 Jun 05 - 05:04 PM

Infinately better is the chant sung by fans of Notts County Football Club:

The Wheelbarrow Song


We had a wheelbarrow,
The wheel fell off,
We had a wheelbarrow,
And the wheel fell off!!!!!

Ian

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: WHEELBARROW SONG
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 04:12 AM

I still do that song occasionally Kitty, I learnt it from a guy named Mark [Smith?]who used to come to the Coach and Horses in days gone by, he was from your end of the world.
When along came a bloody great tank!
Giok