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14 Jan 00 - 08:12 AM (#162682) Subject: Lyr Add: AG PLEEZ DADDY (Jeremy Taylor) From: Wotcha 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 |
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14 Jan 00 - 08:23 AM (#162686) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Roger the skiffler 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 |
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14 Jan 00 - 08:32 AM (#162688) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Roger the skiffler 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 |
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14 Jan 00 - 11:16 AM (#162770) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Allan S, 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 |
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17 Jan 00 - 03:49 AM (#164177) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Roger the skiffler Found my earlier fragment: Calico Rice should be Canada Dry! RtS |
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17 Jan 00 - 08:09 AM (#164210) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Malcolm.Smith@durham.ac.uk 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. |
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17 Jan 00 - 08:33 AM (#164214) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Roger the skiffler Thanks, Malcolm, that's helped! I'd omitted the "Foetsaak" ,which I think is Afrikaans for "Go forth and multiply", so as not to offend any small possums or herons that might be reading thi! Your memory is a lot less hazy than mine! "Moorer" is "murder" and is it "blerry" (bloody) Yankee? I think the [something something] in your new verse picks up the other suggested locations:, funfare,wrestling?. RtS |
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17 Jan 00 - 03:36 PM (#164332) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: bigJ Malcolm, you're right, there was a revue called 'Wait A Minim' - I saw it at the Fortune theatre but I'm sad to say - since it ages me even more - that it was 1963. The LP that was released at the time was on Decca's London label LK4610. Ag Pleez Daddy was also released some time prior to that on the African Gallotone label. Regards. |
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18 Jan 00 - 02:23 AM (#164517) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: roopoo I have put a request through, (via a friend of mine who knows of the song, can sing the first line, did down the phone at me, but can't remember much more), to another contact who lived in RSA for years, and who she says is bound(!) to know it. I only lived there for a couple of years in the 80s and never came across it, but is it referring to the annual emptying of the Transvaal and Free State into Durban every December? I got a wonderful book while I was out there called "Kyk Daar!", which is all about Durban life, covers the annual visit of the "Kyk Daars", and has a cartoon with the grandad standing holding his little grandson's hand on the beach. They are looking at the sea, and the little boy says:"Jus like Oupa, on whose big farm is this big dam?" I hope before long I may be able to post something. It relies on contact #1 actually remembering to get in touch with contact #2 in the first place! I'll try and nag'em! cheers mouldy |
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18 Jan 00 - 05:15 AM (#164542) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Lanfranc Jeremy Taylor is very much alive and well and back in the UK. He has reissued a selection of his tracks from the 60's and 70's on Prism PLATCD 990. CDs and concert dates available from Jeremy Taylor Recordings, Rock House, Trelystan, WELSHPOOL, Powys, WALES, UK SY21 8HZ I saw "Wait a Minim" too, and, until some ratbag borrowed and didn't return them, I had the LPs of "Wait a Minim" and also "Minim'bili". There's more to JT than Jobsworth, but he never did worry too much about being PC, whether in the old days in South Africa, whence he was from time to time banned, or in the songs he is writing today. He's always true to himself, though, and that works for me. |
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19 Jan 00 - 02:47 AM (#165130) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: johnp I think you have the words just about sorted but I will check with a yarpie or two. A simple search for Jeremy Taylor and AG PLEEZ DEDDY (note speeink) will give you some history and an up to date Taylor wrote another classic, I think better, called JOBSWORTH and i hope you will find it here...thanks to Dexter Muir in NZ jobsworth |
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19 Jan 00 - 02:51 AM (#165133) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: johnp Heres the clicky jobsworth |
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31 Aug 01 - 08:24 AM (#538843) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler refresh to answer other newly revived thread. |
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31 Aug 01 - 09:02 AM (#538858) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler I notice this thread also asked for more info on JT. This is from 1998: Known throughout South Africa for his comic song Ag Pleez Daddy, Jeremy Taylor first appeared on the London stage in 1963 with the musical revue Wait a Minim! which also featured ethnomusicologist Andrew Tracey (also on the Festival Fringe leading the Wood and Air workshop on xylophones at the St Andrews College Design and Technology Centre). From there Jeremy became a leading exponent of satirical songs on the British folk scene, enjoying a two-year stage partnership with Spike Milligan.
He returned to South Africa in 1979 to play one-man shows, TV and stage acting roles. He returned to Britain in 1994 to lecture on South Africa and now lives in Montgomeryshire.
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31 Aug 01 - 05:12 PM (#539231) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: John MacKenzie I'm pleased to say that I still have my original cast recording of Wait a Minim, on vinyl. Such a quaint old fashioned material. Jock |
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31 Aug 01 - 06:24 PM (#539306) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: pavane Wasn't there also a 'Lift girl's lament'?. Very vague and distant memory. |
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01 Sep 01 - 09:34 AM (#539596) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Bob Bolton G'day, I seem to remember some discussion of Jeremy Taylor's wonderful (and trenchant) songs of South Africa and beyond a year or two back. I may have contributed the words of Jobsworth (almost the anthem of my days with a working band, really). Jeremy toured Australia in 1979 and I have a cassette tape compiled from (broadcasts of) his concerts in Adelaide, South Australia and Perth, Western Australia. The tracks on this tape are: Dr Barnard's Driver (comedy routine), Transplant Calypso (song) Immorality Act (song) Lift Girl's Lament (song) Ag Pleez Daddy (song) Republic Day Calypso (song) All Along the South Coast (song, set in England) Love on the Sands (song, set in England) Love California Style (song) Jobsworth (song) You Know! (poem, England?) Made in Holland (song) When You've Gone out of your Mind (song – parody of Windmills of the Mind) The Swan Brewery Props (Jeremy – definitely not drinking the props from the sponsor) Prawns in the Game (song based on Union Leaders' speeches) Donkeys' Charter (song about Blackpool, England) Winter Song (more serious song about Blackpool) Pommy Bastard (Jeremy's take on local attitudes Irene Goodnight (end of concert). If you can't find the words elsewhere, to some of these beaut songs, I could get in and dig them out (so far as I can understand his Afrikaans numbers). Regards, Bob Bolton
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01 Sep 01 - 12:52 PM (#539690) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Lanfranc Giok, If you could provide me with a tape of Wait a Minim, I would be infernally grateful (and would recompense you handsomely)! PM me if willing!
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29 Sep 01 - 10:39 PM (#561683) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,david Howzit! To use a South African greeting. Here are some minor corrections an gap fillers to "Ag pleez daddy!" also know as "The ballad of the southern suburbs." The Northern suburbs of Johannesburg is(was) where the wealthy live(d)while poor whites lived in the southern suburbs. ..."that" or "an" ou called Sky High Lee. An ou is Afrikaans for a fellow.At one time "Ou" jokes were the rage in South Africa. eg What's a trio? Answer: An ou who lives in a tree. Sky High Lee was a Texan wrestler. Willie Liebenberg (not Liefenberg) was a local wrestler. ......cos Willie's gonna donner that blerry Yankee donner means beat up The song ends with "Voetsek!" pronounced Footsek!(foot as in put) with the meaning already alluded to! Cheers, David. |
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30 Sep 01 - 07:55 PM (#562152) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: McGrath of Harlow Jeremy Taylor was at Walton Folk Festival a couple of years ago, and better than ever. Here is an article by him from 1992, with a couple of songs.
And here is something from 1998 about him on a trip back to South Africa And here is a page with him appearing on stage at a festival in South Africa last year.
But he definitely does not have a high profile web presence. (I found an address for his website, but it didn't work.) So if anyone has any more up to date info, lets have it. The man is brilliant. |
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10 Jan 02 - 05:30 AM (#624721) Subject: Lyr Add: AG PLEEZ DADDY From: GUEST,Ludger Here's what I made of the song (using the postings here, especially Brians, and the record I have) The rugby version is by Leon Shuster. I've got it on CD but haven't gone to the trouble of extracting the text AG PLEEZ DADDY -- Copyright to Jeremy Taylor (1) Ag Pleez Daddy Won't you take us to the 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 ag daddy how we mus(?) [I really can't make out what he sings here] Nigger balls and liquorice Pepsi Cola, Ginger beer, and Canada Dry (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 When he fights Willie Liefenburg There's gonna be a murder 'Cause Willie's gonna donder that bloody yankee (4) Ag Pleez Daddy Won't you take us off to Durban It's only 8 hours in the Chevrolet There's lots of sand and sea and sun And fish in the aquarium It's a lekker place for a holiday. (5)Ag Pleeeez Daddy - VOETSEK!!! (6) Ag, soos, Daddy If we can't go to biscope something something something, [neither here :-(] 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. |
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10 Jan 02 - 12:24 PM (#624916) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: breezy Thurs 28th feb 2002 Hollybush f.c. Redbourn Herts, See him there. |
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10 Jan 02 - 03:14 PM (#625056) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: JEM-Wales The last verse should be sung as a drirg, the same tune as the first verses, but really sad slow and if you are really trying to put it on. Thanks for all the memories of driving up Ndirande Mountain in the back of a pick up all 6/7 of us 8/9/10 singing the song at the top of our heads. At 2 or 3 in the morning not a popular bunh of kids |
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10 Jan 02 - 04:25 PM (#625153) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Maxine We always sing 'Bulls eyes and licorice'. This song has such a huge place in my heart....a very good friend of ours died in a car crash in August 01 and he and his 7 year old daughter would sing this whenever we all got together. It was their party piece, and we never tired of listening. Happy days.... |
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10 Jan 02 - 07:24 PM (#625365) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: breezy who remembers the young vic gig? |
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10 Jan 02 - 08:28 PM (#625422) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Charley Noble We always interpreted the chorus as running: Popcorn, chewing gum, peanuts and bubblegum; Ice cream, candy floss, and Eskimo Pie; Ag, daddy, how we miss Nigger balls and liquorice; Pepsi Cola, Ginger Beer, and Canada Dry. Any decoding ideas about the last verse? |
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11 Jan 02 - 03:56 AM (#625617) Subject: Lyr Add: AG PLEEZ DADDY (parody) From: GUEST,Stavanger Bill Back years ago (late sixties) in the days when the Spanish closed the border with Gibralter, the RAF contingent had a parody version of the song doing the rounds. Ag pleez Daddy won't you send me Gibralter I want to see the Rock and the big Baboons I want to go out there at night And see if what I've heard is right I want to see if Chiefy can fly around the moon Chorus: Eros and Tivoli, Spit Roast and Pulvereen Spinning Wheel, Smokey Joe's and Oliver Twist Horse Shoe and Devil's Tower Chimmney Corner after hours By four in the morning we will all be pissed. Ag pleez Daddy won't you take me down to Main Street I want to spend a fortune in the flashy stores I want to buy a postcard With a Spanish dancer looking neat If you tip it side-ways she winks and drops her drawers. Ag pleez Daddy won't you take me to the Eros I want to see the ladies there without their clothes I want to see 'Old Henry' in his bra and panties Don't know what you'd call him But I think he's one of those Ag pleez Daddy won't you take me to the Ape's Den I want to see those Rock Apes large and small I hear that we will leave this Rock When there's no Rock Apes left in stock I think I'll take a Sten gun up and shoot them all Ag pleez Daddy won't you take me back to England I've had about enough of this Rock you know I know I'm not being dutifull But Henry's looking beautiful And that's certain sign that it's time to go.
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11 Jan 02 - 04:46 AM (#625636) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,harvey andrews This song means a lot to me. I was a student when it was in the charts in England. A friend showed me my first three chords on a guitar and that evening I wrote a parody. We had a lecturer who gave us excruciating health lectures who's initials were DAD, so of course, we called him daddy. The opening line was "ag, pleez Daddy wont you give us a health lecture.." I sang it the next night in a college talent show...and that was my first solo public performance. Jeremy and I worked together frequently in the 70's. He is now living just outside Shrewsbury. I saw him recently at a local folk club, audience about 20, and thought long and hard on how a man of such brilliant talent could be so little known in our society. It's probably because he sings and plays, stimulates and entertains, asks questions and challenges an audience and doesn't just dance and mime to percussion tracks. Pardon the sour grapes but I'm distinctly pissed off with Britain's ever accelerating dumbing down! |
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11 Jan 02 - 08:10 AM (#625672) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: breezy Where's your song that we can all sing on this subject? |
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11 Jan 02 - 08:47 AM (#625693) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Cllr I saw Jeremy at a local theatre some years ago and was fortunate enough to be able to book him for Uxbridge Folk Club He was far better known by my young south african friends from university (non folkies)than anyone else because, apparently, as well as the songs he was known for an advertising campaign for some beverage.Cllr |
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11 Jan 02 - 12:34 PM (#625854) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Melbert Jeremy and Ag Pleez daddy also feature on a "Comedy Club" album "Spike Milligan live at Cambridge University" ISBN 1-897861-76-1 |
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11 Jan 02 - 07:06 PM (#626154) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Herga Kitty There was quite a long thread going recently on "Red velvet steering wheel cover driver" of which Jeremy was also the onlie begetter. I think he might have been responsible for Chastity Belt too. In any case, "Prawns in the game" is well worth catching. Kitty PS Jeremy Taylor is one of the first guests I ever saw at a folk club (when I was still at school) when he did Ag pleez Daddy and the elevator song, and the song about changing your appearance to be trendy because all the white people want to be black and the black people want to be white. Not to mention the one about the French hitch-hiker and the jolly messages he got... |
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14 Jan 02 - 08:39 AM (#627559) Subject: Lyr Add: AG PLEEZ DEDDY (Jeremy Taylor) From: Jim Dixon Found at the South African Club web site. This version is only slightly different from GUEST,Ludger's post above, but it fills in a couple of holes:
AG PLEEZ DEDDY (THE BALLAD OF THE SOUTHERN SUBURBS)
Ag pleez, Deddy, won't you take us to the drive-in?
CHO: Popcorn, chewing gum, peanuts an' bubble gum,
Ag pleez, Deddy, won't you take us to the fun-fair?
Ag pleez, Deddy, won't you take us to the wrestling?
Ag pleez, Deddy, won't you take us off to Durban? Ag pleez, Deddy… Voetsek!
Ag sis, Deddy, if we can't go to bioscope |
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14 Jan 02 - 12:04 PM (#627672) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Dave Bryant Sorry not to have looked in on this one earlier - it was me who wanted the lyrics of "Red Velvet Steering Wheel..." I think that nearly everything's been said already. I actually went and saw "Wait a Minim" and still have (a very warped) copy of the record. The Chastity Belt song was in the show, but Jeremy said he learnt it at college. A cut down version of W.A.M. was broadcast on BBC television and entitled "Time to Breve". Many years ago I heard a radio programme in which the late John Betjemin read his favourite bits of poetry and "All around the south coast" was included. Is he now living back in the UK permanently ? When I last saw him a couple of years ago he still had a place in South Africa, and told how he made person-to-person calls back to a friend in his village. The village telephonist recognising him, would then spend the next 20 minutes telling him all the local gossip and as his friend was not available anyway, he got it all for free. Finally has anyone got the words of one song which has not been mentioned "The Belle of Barnstable" - definitely one of my favourites. All I can remember is bits, the local lord saying: I'd forfeit all my titles if only she'd give in, She's paralyzed my vitals - I think I need a gin. And the vicar: Thy kingdom come thy will be done In heaven and below. Thy kingdom's in the second row, Oh please lord let me in.
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14 Jan 02 - 06:04 PM (#627936) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Jim Dixon Dave: If you want to request lyrics for different songs (other than the one you named at the beginning of this thread), it would be best to start a new thread for each song. On the main forum page, click on "Create a New Thread." On the next screen, select "Lyric Request" as the prefix, and then type the name of the song as the name of the thread (or whatever you think the name might be). On the next screen, type whatever information you have about the song as the first message. Don't assume that whoever reads the new message will have read the old one, or vice versa. But before you do even that, check to see if the song has already been posted in some old thread. To do that, on the main forum page, type either the title or some phrase from the song – in quotation marks – in the box called "Digitrad and Forum Search" and click "Go." |
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14 Jan 02 - 07:10 PM (#627971) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: breezy yes Dave I've got the words,welcome back. |
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15 Jan 02 - 07:18 PM (#628650) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,tenbears Thanks for ending a ten year search! What DON'T you know? Viva mudcat Tenbears |
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15 Mar 02 - 12:40 AM (#669583) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,Ludger I've found some additional information on this page: http://www.3rdearmusic.com/lyrics/pleezdaddy.html have a look |
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15 Mar 02 - 04:41 AM (#669646) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Nigel Parsons I've got the words from the "Spike & Jeremy live @ Cambridge" album, and they match those in Jim Dixon's post, but without the additional verse. Trying for audience participation, Jeremy goes quiet on some of the chorus, and stops to explain that "Eskimo Pie is a type of ice cream; and don't worry about Nigger Balls, just sing it" Next chorus Spike shouts "Nigger Balls!" and Jeremy says "Come on, if Spike can do it..." |
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17 Mar 02 - 10:39 AM (#670718) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Nigel Parsons Serendipitous or what ? : Saturday's Daily Telegraph had a column by JT who has been helping in school. See Here |
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17 Mar 02 - 04:31 PM (#670884) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,Simon The chorus is: Popcorn, chewing gum peanuts and bubblegum ice cream, candy floss and eskimo pie Ag daddy how we miss niggerballs [bullseyes in the UK version] and liquorice pepsi cola, ginger beer and canada dry and in the last verse it's spans of sea and sand and sun and fish in the aquarium.... |
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18 Mar 02 - 08:18 AM (#671220) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,T-boy Herga Kitty, was the song about the French hitchhiker the same song that I remember called 'Pizouf!!!', which I think was about General de Gaulle travelling round Britain? |
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19 Nov 02 - 12:48 PM (#829979) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: breezy Friday 29th Nov 2002 Jeremy live at the St.Albans Folk Club, at the Comfort Hotel |
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12 Sep 04 - 03:14 AM (#1269792) Subject: Lyr Add: AG PLEEZ DADDY (Jeremy Taylor) From: GUEST,Peter Smart So far then: 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 Ag Deddy how we miss Nigger balls and liquorice Pepsi Cola, Ginger beer, and Canada Dry (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 ou called Sky High Lee When he fights Willie Liebenburg There's gonna be a murder Cos Willie's gonna donner that blerry Yankee (4) Ag Pleez Daddy Won't you take us off to Durban It's only 8 hours, in the Chevrolet There's spans of sea and sand and sun And fish in the aquarium It's a lekker for a holiday AG PLEEZ DADDY!!! (5) Ag Pleez Daddy Foetsaak !! (6) Ag Soos Daddy, If we can't go to the Bioscope Or go off to Durban 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 murder all the uggies next door |
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12 Sep 04 - 06:49 AM (#1269846) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST Jim Dixon posted the correct words in Jan 02. "But go on out and moer all the oukies next door" Robyn |
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12 Sep 04 - 06:51 AM (#1269847) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,Little Robyn Who's pinched my cookie? Ag Sis Daddy! Little Robyn |
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12 Sep 04 - 08:17 AM (#1269874) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: Micca We had a genuine South African accented singer in the Barn at Towersey who did this at my request, this year, and it was so funny and PERFECT, it HAS to have the accent to be really at its best. |
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13 Sep 04 - 06:18 AM (#1270928) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: John MacKenzie The song Kitty alluded to is called Black and White Calypso, and was I believe the reason why Jeremy was not allowed back into SA for a while. I used to see him often when we both lived in Richmond Surrey. He was married to Zelide then, and they have two boys called Josh and Caleb, I always loved those names. Can't remember all the words of this song, but it is very funny, and like most of Jeremy's songs extremely perceptive. Turning the pages of Zonk I see Special liquid that guarantee To make your curly hair straight And bring you success on every date But when I pass by the downtown beauty parlour There's the white ladies sitting there hour after hour With a big funny thing on their head trying to make their straight hair curly instead. Cho. Tell me tell me tell me why I want to know the facts Why all the white people want to black And the black people want to go white I can only remember fragments of the other verses, but there was a bit in the final verse about his friend marrying a black girl, and it says, And she gave him a little bit of black in the night And he gave her a little bit of white That's the answer. Well in apartheid days in SA this was the ultimate offence, to even mention mixed marriages. So he was not a friend of Dr Verwoerd, but he was a hero to lot of others, including me. Giok |
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13 Sep 04 - 01:49 PM (#1271276) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: John MacKenzie Sorry, last two lines of the chorus wrong way round. Giok |
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10 Feb 05 - 12:06 PM (#1404698) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy From: GUEST,shooterBall@hotmail.com Regerding Jeremy Taylor, I became enchanted with his songs when I saw "Wait a Minim" in Chicago in 1968. I learned his "Piece of Ground" and spent the next 32 years looking for anything about its author. I found Jeremy a few years ago on the web (JeremyTaylor.info) and corresponded with him. The upshot of all that is that I am helping him come to the US (Chicago area) for a number of appearances which I lined up for him. If anyone wants to know about these they may contact me. (Jeremy_info@Yahoo.com) He'll be here in the month of March, 2005, very soon. And if anyone wants music from "Wait a Minim: or "Minim Bili" it can be procurred from Andrew Tracey (Prof), International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 6140. Tel: +27-46-603.8557. His email is: A.Tracey@ru.ac.za. Andrew Tracy with his brother Paul and Jeremy were the beginnings of the Wait a Minim epic, along with its producer Leon Gluckman. The show ran for 7 years on 4 continents. Spectacular. There is a webpage about the show at: http://users.bestweb.net/~foosie/minim.htm. --Rich Ball, Oak Park, Illinois, usa |
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28 Jul 06 - 12:59 PM (#1795536) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy (Jeremy Taylor) From: GUEST,Gillian Please can you give us the words to jeremy taylors "oh please daddy" done in a very posh english accent. Oh please daddy, won't you take us to Arnes the horsey girls will all be there the goodman brothers --what a pair some of the lines I remember Gillian |
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09 Sep 06 - 09:45 PM (#1830926) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy (Jeremy Taylor) From: GUEST,bronwen Some of the words I remember of the posh "Oh please daddy" : Chorus: Champane, caviar, polo and Jaguar, garden parties, debutantes and french liqueur; Life's so boring for a girl who cannot join the social whirl, and we can get our pictures in the social page again. Oh, please daddy, won't you take us to the races.. .. Voetsek! Ag sis, coekie, jus remember I'm your pa! I am also looking for the whole thing. |
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10 Sep 06 - 05:11 PM (#1831375) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy (Jeremy Taylor) From: Charley Noble LOL We were just talking about Jeremy Taylor just the other night. Charley Noble |
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16 Oct 06 - 05:31 PM (#1860726) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy (Jeremy Taylor) From: GUEST We sang Ag pleez Deddy out in Morristown Arizona last Saturday. What a lot of memories that brought back! Jacob de Raadt. |
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21 Oct 06 - 03:49 AM (#1864893) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy (Jeremy Taylor) From: GUEST,johnmac He wrote another song almost the reverse - I think it was called the Northern Suburbs Lament - the only line I remember is "champagne, caviar, polo and Jaguar". Anyone remember that one? |
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21 Oct 06 - 03:54 AM (#1864894) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ag Pleez Daddy (Jeremy Taylor) From: GUEST,johnmac Sorry, didn't read the whole thread above - ayway, found some of Northern Girls Lament: Champagne, caviar, polo and Jaguars Garden parties, debutantes and French liqueur Life's so boring for a girl Who cannot join the social whirl With first nights, Dimple Haig and gown by Dior And the final verse goes: Ag sis cookie, Just cut out all that nagging Push off now, hey Just remember I'm your Pa I'm bleddy fed up with your cheek And that fancy way you speak, That bleddy school has finished you, Has finished you klaar.
-Joe Offer- |