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Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray

04 Dec 97 - 11:13 PM (#17127)
Subject: Looking fro Jake Thackeray songs
From: Pete H.

I'm trying to locate any of Jake's songs, please help. Don't remember titles to many of them, but remember one about a young lady whose hobby was making love on English National MOnuments, another one about the escapades of a cockerel he purchased!

Thanks to anyone that can help.

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-Joe Offer-

05 Dec 97 - 12:06 PM (#17147)
Subject: RE: Looking fro Jake Thackeray songs
From: Charles Colyer

Pete: For a Jake Thackray discography try accessing the following site: http://kennedy.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html

You might also want to check the book "Jake's Progress", published in 1977 by The Paperback Division of W. H. ALLEN Co. Ltd. It contains many of Jake's verses.

Charles

05 Dec 97 - 12:19 PM (#17149)
Subject: RE: Looking fro Jake Thackeray songs
From: dick greenhaus

National Monuments is in the database.
Isabel Makes Love

05 Dec 97 - 02:02 PM (#17161)
Subject: Lyr Add: ON AGAIN, ON AGAIN (Jake Thackray)^^
From: Bert

ON AGAIN, ON AGAIN
(Jake Thackray)

I love a good bum on a woman. It makes my day.
I assume it is part of the proof of God's existence "a posteriori".
I love breasts and arms and ankles, elbows, knees.
It's the tongue, the tongue, the tongue of a woman that spoils the job for me.

Please understand, I respect and admire the frailer sex,
And I honour them every bit as much as the next misogynist,
But give some women the ghost of a chance to talk, and thereupon
They go on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on.

I fell in love with a woman with wonderful thighs and hips
And a sensational belly. I just never noticed her lips
Were always moving. Only when we got to the altar and she had to say, "I do",
She folded her arms and gathered herself and took in a breath and I knew

She could have gone on again, on again, on again, till the entire
Congregation passed out and the vicar passed on and the choir
Boys passed through puberty. At the reception I gloomily noted her family's jubilant mood,
Their maniacal laughter and their ghastly gratitude.

She talks to me when I go for a shave or a sleep or a swim.
She talks to me on a Sunday when I go singing hymns and drinking heavily.
When I go mending my chimney pot, she's down there in the street,
And at ninety-five on my motor bike, she's on the pillion seat

Wittering on again, on again, on and again and again.
When I'm eating or drinking or reading or thinking, or when I'm saying my rosary,
She will never stop talking to me. She is one of those women who
Will never use three or four words when a couple of thousand will easily do.

She even talks without stopping to me in our bed of a night,
Throughout the sweetest of our intimate delight,
Not even stopping while we go hammer and tongs towards the peak,
Except maybe for a sigh and a groan and one perfunctory shriek.

She just goes on again, on again, on again, on and I must
Assume that she has never noticed that she's just
Been interrupted. Totally unruffled she is, and as far as I can see,
I might just as well have been posting a letter or stirring up the tea.

She will not take a hint but once she's made a start
I can yawn, or belch, or bleed, or faint, or fart.
She'll not drop a syllable. I could stand in front of her grimly sharpening up an axe,
Sprinkle her with paraffin and ask her for a match;

She'd just go on again, on again, on again even more.
The hind leg of donkey is peanuts for her. She could bore
The balls off a buffalo. "Mother of God," I cried one day,
"Oh let your kingdom come, but in the meantime, Mother, can't you strike this bugger away?"

Believe it or not, she appeared to me then and there,
The Blessed Virgin herself in answer to my prayer,
Despite the vulgarity, shimmering softly, dressed in blue and holding up a hand.
I cocked a pious ear as the Mother of God began,

But she just went on again, on again, on again, on and I
Must state how very much I sympathi -
-ze with the rest of the family. Give some women the ghost of a chance
To talk and thereupon
They go on again, on again, on again, on

Again and again, and again, and again, and again,
They go on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, on.


07 Dec 97 - 09:47 PM (#17265)
Subject: RE: Looking fro Jake Thackeray songs
From:

Many thanks to those who responded! Bert, I remember On again, on again now - thanks for reminding me of it. Pete
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23 Feb 99 - 11:45 AM (#59813)
Subject: jake thackray
From: cqc

it's been 13 years since i heard it on a toronto radio station and 13 years i have been trying to find a recording of it.....jake thackrays' (welsh) "my dog ulysses".....on digital tradition folk song database i located jake thackrays' "Isabel makes love", but no other songs. can anyone help me before i go COMPLETELY crazy? thanks.

23 Feb 99 - 01:16 PM (#59832)
Subject: Lyr Add: ULYSSES (Jake Thackray)
From: AndyG

ULYSSES

When Ulysses comes home,
He always greets me with an open heart,
But you will see how Ulysses
Has taken my life apart.

I've got a dog called Ulysses.
He plays all day in the park,
Sniffing at his friends and the chestnut trees,
And chasing cats 'til after dark.

When my Ulysses comes home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, his tail in the air,
His usual exuberance
Is awfully hard to bear.

When I stumble home at night, I'm jaded and stale,
And so I try to take a little repose.
I don't want waking up with a happy tail.
I don't want a kiss from a big wet nose.

When my Ulysses comes home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, he gets on my wick.
For Ulysses communicates
His love with a snuffle and a lick.

I like to sit in my fireside chair,
Watching telly 'til the epilogue
In a semi-coma and without a care,
And I would do if it were not for my bloody dog.

When my Ulysses comes home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, like a maniac,
It's useless to pursue my viewing,
So I sent my television back.

I tried to climb the social scale,
And so I organised a little "do".
Some very posh people came to my cocktail,
But at half-past seven my party was through.

When my Ulysses came home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, I knew I was sunk.
My guests were not at all impressed,
And they left when my dog got drunk.

I brought my sweetie home one night,
And we both knew that this was it.
Sipping Chianti by candlelight,
We were getting to a very important bit.

When my Ulysses came home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, he broke the spell,
Intruding on my beautiful romance,
Like a Hound from Hell.

My one solution is quick and grim:
A little bottle of cyanide.
I can't bring myself to get rid of him.
I shall have to perform a suicide.

So when Ulysses comes home,
Wag-wag, woof-woof, home for his tea,
He'll have to cry a little bit,
For having given so much love to me.

Recorded on: Jake Thackray's Last Will and Testament

AndyG

Spelling corrected. --JoeClone, 18-Jul-02.

23 Feb 99 - 01:21 PM (#59834)
Subject: RE: jake thackray
From: AndyG

Oops, I think I've just spelt Ulysses wrong ?
Jake Thackray, by the way, is a Yorkshireman and proud of it. I don't think he'd like it to get about that he was welsh.

AndyG

23 Feb 99 - 03:45 PM (#59864)
Subject: RE: jake thackray
From: Ian HP

None of Jake's original LPs have, unfortunately, been reissued on CD. However, a compilation CD called Lah-Di-Dah is available, and both of these songs are on it.
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03 Jan 00 - 10:07 PM (#157666)
Subject: Jake Thackray
From: Muriel

Does anybody out there know of a source for any records of Jake Thackray's song, by Jake or anybody else. All I have is a tape, made by a friend, about 16th generation recording. I've tried the net, and my local large CD supplier -- no luck. Thanks.

03 Jan 00 - 10:08 PM (#157669)
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackray
From: Muriel, again

Sorry, that should read Jake Thackray's songS. He did a number of them, all very funny.

03 Jan 00 - 10:51 PM (#157685)
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery
From: Brendy

Hello Muriel, and your friend.
Here's one: Jake Thackray Lah-Di-Da EMI CDP 7 96271 2 (UK: CD IDL 1 1 5)
That's the only one I can find at the minute.
B.

04 Jan 00 - 05:11 PM (#157956)
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery
From: johnp

lots of info on Jake and sources of recordings

www.socresonline.org.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html I also have some lyrics if you are looking for specifics

BRENDY...Happy New Year and I'm working alongside that Bantam!

04 Jan 00 - 06:28 PM (#158010)
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery
From:

Here's the clicky

click here

04 Jan 00 - 08:19 PM (#158058)
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery
From: Brendy

How're ye John, ana a happy New Year as well!!
Was that you who put the clicky thing in?
Nice one though. I never knew he had a home page.
All the best
B.

04 Jan 00 - 08:37 PM (#158065)
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery
From: johnp

gidday Brendy...yep, did the clicky thing right but forgot the ID thing. Hogmanay left me dazed for days.

I picked up a book of Jakes verse "Jakes Progress" in a junk shop. If you want any I will arrange a scan and e-mail it to you.

04 Jan 00 - 09:53 PM (#158127)
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery
From: Brendy

Great stuff man. When you have time to do it I would love to have a copy. Anything you want me to look up for you just shout.
B.

05 Jan 00 - 12:18 AM (#158209)
Subject: RE: Help: Jake Thackery
From: Muriel

Thank you very much to everybody who replied to my request. I now have not only a source for Jake Thackray, but other British humour I was having trouble finding, at Magpie Records, which has a link on the Jack Thackray (Unofficial)Homepage.

I also know how to spell ThackRAY correctly, which helps a lot. Thanks again.

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05 Jul 00 - 02:31 PM (#252302)
Subject: Jake Thackeray
From: GUEST,a642acgs@hotmail.com

I'm looking for the words of some of Jake Thackray's songs. I can't seem to find them on the net anywhere. In particular, I'm looking for the words to "Red-Velvet-Steering-Wheel-Covered Driver" and the song about a concrete mixer. Any pointers will be appreciated. Brian

05 Jul 00 - 03:33 PM (#252356)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray
From: McGrath of Harlow

"Red-Velvet-Steering-Wheel-Covered Driver" - surely that wasn't Jake Thackray? It was (and is) sung by Jeremy Taylor, and I'd assumed he wrote it. (Not a lot about Jeremy Taylor either onthe net that I could find - here's a bit I found: :

Jeremy Taylor. Here's an extract of a review, "Live at the Parkgate Hotel - Wirral, 18th June 1998" by David Jones from the Autumn 1998 edition of Folk North West:

"In the last issue, I described Roy Bailey as a legend in his own lifetime. Well, another artist who could easily shoulder that mantle is Jeremy Taylor. An Oxford graduate, former Eton schoolmaster, humourist/singer/songwriter and satirist, the list goes on... For more than thirty years, he's been travelling the world, with no shortage of colourful experiences to draw on... "Jeremy moved back to these shores in 1994, after living the previous 14 years in South Africa. He now tends his garden in rural mid-Wales, but his mind is still razor sharp, and he still holds audiences in the palm of his hand."

I can confirm that last bit, from seeing hgim at the last Walton Folk Festival, when he sanf Red Velvet Steering Wheel Ciover among others. Anyway, I reckon a thread asking about Jeremy Taylor is more likely to come up with the words you are after. (Walton Folk Festival is on again this year incidentally, in September. there's info about it on this page

05 Jul 00 - 04:13 PM (#252392)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackray
From: Morticia

I don't know either of these as Jake Thackrays and I thought I knew all his stuff

05 Jul 00 - 06:15 PM (#252462)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray
From: bobby's girl

I agree that RVSWCD is definately a Jeremy Taylor song - I have a wonderful lunatic LP of him and Spike Milligan performing live together - totally bizarre!

05 Jul 00 - 06:44 PM (#252475)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackray
From: Lanfranc

It would be easier to find Jake's material if people could spell his surname! It's spelt THACKRAY. A Google search with those terms will come up with something but ....

Red Velvet Steering Wheel Cover Driver is by Jeremy Taylor as above and I can't think of a song about a cement mixer by either Taylor or Thackray!

Try Google again, or do a one-year hunt through the Mudcat.

Happy hunting - join Mudcat and have all your misconceptions about the authorship of songs corrected!

05 Jul 00 - 07:00 PM (#252488)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray
From: McGrath of Harlow

Well, that's sorted - now tell us more about the concrete mixer, and see if that sparks any memories.

06 Jul 00 - 04:38 AM (#252749)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray
From: AndyG

The (Unofficial) Jake Thackray Homepage

AndyG

06 Jul 00 - 08:40 AM (#252789)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray
From: GUEST,Alan Francis at the Office

Thank you AndyG, one day I'll discover the secret of the blue clicky thingie!

06 Jul 00 - 08:54 AM (#252792)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray
From: Snuffy

Try OUR BILL in the Digitrad Lyrics Search box - that's about a concrete mixer driver, but it's not by Thackray

06 Jul 00 - 10:50 AM (#252857)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray
From: GUEST,Brian

Thankyouthankyouthankyou. I had thought for the longest time that Jake Thackray sang the song about the RVSWCD. Thanks for putting the record straight. As to the song about the concrete mixer, Our Bill is the one. I heard this sung at a small Folk festival up in New Hampshire about 15 years ago and couldn't get scraps of the song out of my head.

06 Jul 00 - 11:20 AM (#252874)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray
From: McGrath of Harlow

The Secret of the Blue Clicky Thing -

"Sherlock, my good fellow. You've been sitting in the corner in front of that funny looking box long enough. God knows what you are trying to do, but it's hiugh time you laid it on one side, and had one of Mrs Hudson's excellent Muffins."

Outside the fog, a London Particular, was muffling the sounds of the passing carriages..."

...Someday the full story will be told, when the world is ready for it."

But not just yet. Here is the short version for the above link:

{a href="http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html"}The (Unofficial) Jake Thackray Homepage{/a}

"http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html" is in thiscase the address of the website you'd be try9ng to link to. But in place of eveery { in the abve paragraph, you write < , and in place of every } you put >

And when you do that, this is what you get: The (Unofficial) Jake Thackray Homepage

06 Jul 00 - 07:28 PM (#253110)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jake Thackeray
From: Lanfranc

Wow - It's just like WordStar 1.0!

Who'd have though the blue clicky thingie had so many control characters embedded in it!

Thanks, neighbour, that's a beer I owe you.

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22 Mar 01 - 07:52 PM (#423640)
Subject: Jake Thackray
From: Lanfranc

No, not bad newa, just a link requested on PalTalk.

http://www.socresonline.org.uk/~scs1ec/jakethackray.html

Excellent site, loads of info and lyrics.

Glad Jake's songs are having a bit of a revival on PalTalk.

22 Mar 01 - 08:10 PM (#423649)
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray
From: SINSULL

Thanks Lanfranc. Pseudolus introduced us to Sr. Josephine. Great stuff.

23 Mar 01 - 05:53 PM (#424524)
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray
From: Liz the Squeak

Lanfranc does the Gorilla song.... one of my favourites.

LTS

23 Mar 01 - 06:16 PM (#424545)
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray
From: Greyeyes

I once heard Jake described as "the Noel Coward of the North." High praise. I have a vague memory of singing "Lah Di Dah" on Paltalk once, long, long ago.

23 Mar 01 - 06:59 PM (#424597)
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray
From: Morticia

I do a few of his songs, it is a great sadness to me that he appears to have gone undergound.....guess that is his choice but oh my, do I miss him.

24 Mar 01 - 04:50 PM (#425061)
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray
From: Mr Red

7/10 years ago Jake was helping run the Monmouth Town festival. All free and in the town square. they even closed the high street off to have a ceilidh, now thats what I call "FOLK". He was doing the odd gig then but asking 700 Uk pounds & I didn't think I could pull in enough punters on the Malvern Fringe festival or I would have booked him there and then.

24 Mar 01 - 08:00 PM (#425142)
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray
From: Liz the Squeak

It's mainly his liver that has gone underground. I suspect it won't be long before the rest of him joins it.

Lovely bloke though.

LTS

25 Mar 01 - 06:17 PM (#425420)
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray
From: Mr Red

Yea it looked like that then, shaky hands!

26 Mar 01 - 01:36 AM (#425612)
Subject: RE: BS: Jake Thackray
From: roopoo

I remember some 15 years ago he was supposed to be at Stainsby for the Saturday night concert, but broke his wrist and couldn't do it. Nevertheless, he turned up in the afternoon to apologise, and did a spot while he was at it! What a trouper!

Andrea

(Martin Carthy stepped into the breach for the concert!)

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04 Feb 02 - 03:44 PM (#642262)
Subject: jake thackray song lyrics
From: GUEST,merrick

does anyone know of a site containing lyrics/music of jake thackray? or any similar?

04 Feb 02 - 03:54 PM (#642267)
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics
From: GUEST,ta2

between my bizzie lizzie and my portrait of the queen......... i'll think over the next couple of days and get back when i remember

04 Feb 02 - 04:02 PM (#642272)
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics
From: nager

I have a whole book of them at home, published around the early 1970s I think. I found it in a second hand shop at the little town of Gulgong in New South Wales, Australia around 10 years ago.. complete with cartoons by Bill Tidy.. cost me $2 (Aus)... absolutely brilliant. Not much help to you, I guess, but there are a couple of Thackray sites I have come across on the net.. maybe the spelling you used stuffed you up. It is Jake Thackray.. good luck.

04 Feb 02 - 04:12 PM (#642283)
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics
From: MMario

the unofficial home page

04 Feb 02 - 04:18 PM (#642291)
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics
From: GUEST,merrick

thanks nager and mmario found tons of stuff.it's amazing what a difference having the right name makes!!!

04 Feb 02 - 04:18 PM (#642293)
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics
From: John MacKenzie

There are 4 or 5 on the make 'em laugh website, hopefully this will take you to it. Fingers crossed......Giok

04 Feb 02 - 04:19 PM (#642294)
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics
From: GUEST,merrick

thanks nager and mmario found tons of stuff.it's amazing what a difference having the right name makes!!!

04 Feb 02 - 04:22 PM (#642300)
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics
From: John MacKenzie

There are 4 or 5 on the make 'em laugh website, hopefully this will take you to it.

Fingers crossed......Giok

04 Feb 02 - 04:22 PM (#642303)
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics
From: GUEST,merrick

thanks,nager and mmario,found tons of stuff.it's amazing what a difference having the correct spelling makes!!! DOH!

04 Feb 02 - 09:09 PM (#642571)
Subject: RE: jake thackery song lyrics
From: John in Brisbane

Hi Nager, if you're in Australia I would happily notate some of the tunes from your bokk if you were able to send a copy. Jake is one of my all time favourites.

Regards

John

johninbrisbane@lycos.com

05 Jul 02 - 12:43 PM (#742931)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: GUEST,David@g8ina.enta.net

Just in case you missed my earlier thread, we also have a Jake Thackray forum at HERE

Talk, ask, listen... all about Jake. ...and we have plans afoot !! David

22 Apr 06 - 06:41 AM (#1724523)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: GUEST,lesley.marciniak@gmail.com

Loved reading about Jake Thackray, but unable to find words for W P C Sadie Stick !!!!! Anyone know this one ??? I'm living in France and no one here knows of him. Difficult to translate, but I found Brother Gorrilla in French and printed it for My French class. Would appreciate words to Sadie if you have them.
Also know of a guy in Australia who used to sing most of his songs in folk clubs and pubs in England. Lost touch now but I guess he still sings them out there.
Thanks

22 Apr 06 - 05:17 PM (#1724876)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: GUEST,Ian Pittaway

W P C Sadie Stick? Is that a Jake song? Not aware of it. EMI have - at last! - released all their JT material in a box set, 'Jake in a Box' (with lots of unreleased extras), plus the whole concert from the live album, 'Live Performance'. So that's all Jake's output now on CD ... except the fab live Dingle album and the songs he only ever recorded for radio.

23 Apr 06 - 08:26 AM (#1725217)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: GUEST,Dr Price

There's a marvellous CD which has just appeared, Jake Thackray Live At The Lobster Pot, from Lobster Pot Records, Lakeview Studios, Cathedine, Bwlch, Brecon LD3 7DS. The Lobster Pot, at Instow, Devon, was a pub/restaurant which had folk and jazz, and owner John Oliver used to record hundreds of hours of Shirley Collins, Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger - and Jake. Jake was Lobster Pot Records' debut CD, and this recording captures his exuberance and joy at performing with an audience - five stars!

Incidentally, Jake was a Yorkshireman and proud of it, but he loved Penallt and Monmouth and everything about Wales.

23 Apr 06 - 10:45 AM (#1725295)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: The Badger

If you go onto the "The Jake Thackray Website" you will find full details of all Jake's songs. They are also organising a Jakefest in Scarborough in August.
Tamar productions of Scarborough have also produced a stage musical, Sister Josephine Strikes Back, based around some of Jake's songs with book by Ian Macmillan. I saw it in Leeds and it was absolutely hilarious - Jake would have loved it - and the stage performance is available on DVD.

Dr. Price is dead right - Jake was proud of his Yorkshire roots . He came from Leeds, where he also taught at Intake School before going Pro.

WPC Sadie Stick was written by Mike Abaslom. The Saga of W.P.C. Sadie Stick, Maclagan and Bomber Dina. He recorded it on an album in the early seventies - Hector and other Peccadillos - for Phillips, but I don't know if a CD version has been made. There are a number of Mike Absalom web sites on Google.

23 Apr 06 - 02:00 PM (#1725422)
Subject: Lyr Add: WPC SADIE STICK (Mike Absolom)
From: GUEST

WPC SADIE STICK was Mike Absolom, not Jake...

They say she ate to satiate a need for love.
She was a breed above the average police-woman.
WPC Sadie Stick, big and fat and round and thick,
Fourteen stone with a hairy lip, my bruvver!
MacLagan hankered after her with hankering and grief,
And frequently when drunk he'd sing behind his handkerchief:
"WPC Sadie Stick! Hit me again with your big black stick!
I'll 'ave a word with you when I find my dic---tionary!")

The night of the Policeman's Ball, MacLagan met her in the hall.
He said: "'Ello! 'Ello, 'ello, 'ello!”
She turned and looked him in the face as friendly as a can of Mace
And said: "Piss off! Are you someone that I know?
Is it the gay Lothario? Is it Don Giovanni?
Don't drop your balls into my court, you nasty little mannie!"
(but all MacLagan said was)
"WPC Sadie Stick! Hit me again with your big black stick!
I'll 'ave a word with you when I find my dic---tionary!"

When a bust is damned a dam is bust. Giving Sadie up for lust,
MacLagan said: "It's hard to hold yer own!
Sadie, Sadie, I would like to stick my finger in the dyke.
I'll drown of love if you leave me here alone.”
Drunk on an empty head, he sought the porcine porcelain,
And as he groped his drunken way, they heard this sad refrain:
"WPC Sadie Stick! Hit me again with your big black stick!
I'll 'ave a word with you when I find my dic---tionary!"

Meanwhile back in Notting Hill, the moon showed up like a Mandrax pill
In the sky, so high, like everybody.
Bomber Dinah with delight stuffed her bra with gelignite.
She's a booby trap just for tonight, and Noddy!
Up in the sweaty ballroom, things were swinging.
As she cased the place, she heard MacLagan singing:
"WPC Sadie Stick! Hit me again with your big black stick!
I'll 'ave a word with you when I find my dic---tionary!"

Behind the wall, Dinah unseen laid bare her bulging magazine,
But suddenly MacLagan did appear.
He muttered: "Is this where the gents is?" Then a vision pierced his drunken senses,
Big and bold and beautiful and bare!
"It must be Sadie, half undressed! If she was French she'd be from Brest.
I always did like Bristols best! I love you!
WPC Sadie Stick! Hit me again with your big black stick!
I'll 'ave a word with you when I find my dic---tionary!"

Dinah was not like other girls. She had a twin-set but no pearls.
She shouted: "Kill the Pigs!" and then exploded.
MacLagan took off through the air, wrapped in a red hot brassiere.
He said: "I did not know the girl was loaded!"
A satellite was set alight high in the London sky!
As it tumbled over Notting Hill you could hear it cry:
WPC Sadie Stick! Hit me again with your big black stick!
I'll 'ave a word with you when I find my dic---tionary!"


It was on the LP Hector and Other Peccadillos.

23 Apr 06 - 02:54 PM (#1725471)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: GUEST,harryrages

I have a Jake Thackray Vol 1 songbook I can scan and e-mail if you want. Has dots and chords.

11 May 06 - 03:53 PM (#1738319)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: GUEST,Ian Burdon

In a fit of pedantry, may I add to Ian Pittaway's comments that, as well as the radio performances to which he refers, there remains a small number of songs which Jake performed on TV which have yet to return to the public light of day. There are also some decent quality live recordings floating about (including the "Live in Germany" cd now available via www.jakethackray.com which - declaring an interest - I produced). We aim to getmore of this into the public domain in due course.

As well as the Scarborough Jakefest (which follows the Woolwich, Torrington and Edinburgh Jakefests), several of us perform evenings of Jake's songs around the country, most recently in Knutsford Cheshire in February and, last weekend, a well received set at the Holmfirth Festival of Folk as "The Jake Thackray Experience". We can be contacted via the website where I appear as 'aliasmacalias'.

Ian

30 Jun 06 - 07:10 PM (#1773111)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: GUEST

Sometime again, someone asked about Jake Thackray and a song about a concrete mixer. Jake didn't do this song. The Concrete mixer song was and is still performed by Bernard Wrigley.

09 Oct 06 - 08:35 AM (#1853982)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: GUEST

hi, anychance the person offering to scan the songbook email it to me at kurt_ne3@yahoo.com

09 Oct 06 - 02:48 PM (#1854266)
Subject: RE: Looking for Jake Thackray songs
From: Ian Burdon

You could also try here: http://www.jakethackray.com/content/section/3/26/

Ian

23 Apr 09 - 10:22 AM (#2616948)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray
From: GUEST,PM1970

Does anybody know the words to his versions of England Country Garden and one called Green Stamps, which is a parody of Greensleeves?

23 Apr 09 - 02:16 PM (#2617129)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray
From: Darowyn

24 Apr 09 - 03:41 PM (#2618038)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray
From: Jim Dixon

We have parody versions of ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN in old threads here, here, and here; we also have a parody of GREENSLEEVES called GREENSTAMPS in the DT here.

I'm pretty sure Jake Thackray didn't write either of them, but he may have sung them.

17 Feb 10 - 11:15 AM (#2841972)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray
From: Nigel Parsons

refresh

09 Aug 18 - 02:33 PM (#3942747)
Subject: BBC 2014 Great Lives - Jake Thackray
From: FreddyHeadey

BBC Great Lives
Isy Suttie & John Watterson(Fake Thackray) talking about Jake Thackray to Matthew Parris

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042jhlm 
2014

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bbc iPlayer Radio app
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3yvdp3zQJWLtl204z9nxgRt/download-the-iplayer-radio-app 
(then click the '+' on the programme's web page
    then on the app click 
            Menu > My Radio > Listen Later)
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10 Aug 18 - 09:21 AM (#3942897)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray
From: GUEST,Ray

That would be John Watterson the spam merchant then, would it?

01 Feb 21 - 06:39 PM (#4091016)
Subject: ADD: The Lodger (Jake Thackray)
From: Joe Offer

Sung with panache today at the singaround by Melbert.

The Lodger
Words & Music: Jake Thackray

My landlady had three lovely daughters.
They used to come and make my bed each day.
They used to come and clean my living quarters,
But their mother made quite sure they didn't stay.
There was Mary: she seemed chary;
There was Helen: she seemed well and truly sceptical about my qualities;
There was Julie: she was truly well-proportioned, but her caution
Brought exhaustion on my aching arteries.

But I was wrong: they weren't at all impervious
To the possibilities of high romance -
And I sensed a certain girlish nerviness
In the way they folded my pyjama pants.
And I was right, for late one night
Sweet little Mary, like a fairy,
As I lay sleeping, came a-creeping to my side.
She was mine: it was divine - but we were doomed, for very soon
Into the room came sister Helen, and she cried:

"Mary, go to bed!" Off Mary went.
"Now, young man," Helen said, "for your punishment,
"We mustn't have a fight, we mustn't make a row:
"Turn off the light - it's my turn now!"

Well, after all, I'm young and relatively vigorous,
And though I still protest my innocence,
By temperament I'm strictly un-polygamous,
And if I sinned, I sinned in self-defence.
Nevertheless I must confess I wouldn't miss that sort of bliss
And when it ended I was rendered comatose.
When, loud and clear, very near, in my ear a loud voice spoke
And I was awoken from my post-coital doze.

"Helen, go to bed!" Helen went away.
"Now, young man," Julie said, "you will have to pay!
"You've blighted Helen's charms, filched her purity.
"Open up your arms - come and filch me!"

I was amazed, and really rather tired;
I thought I'd given all that I could give.
A little kip was all that I desired,
But I'm British, so my upper lip was stiff.
She was chaotic, idiotic, quite exotic and ecstatic,
Acrobatic and emphatically fine.
All to no good, for when I could open my eyes, to my surprise
I found her mother looking into mine.

"Julie, go to bed!" Julie left the scene.
"Now listen, Ma," I said, "I know the old routine.
"I'll do what you like, but I shall be vexed
"And I'll bloody well go on strike if Grandma's next!"

https://www.jakethackray.com/archive/songs/the-lyrics-and-guitar-tabs/item/the-lodger.html

01 Feb 21 - 09:26 PM (#4091044)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray
From: Gurney

I find it easiest to copy lyrics from Youtube.
You can stop the song instantly, go back in tiny increments to get the missed word.
Much easier than LPs or CDs, which are frustrating to copy from.

Several Thackray songs there, including some the original poster asked for on 1997.

26 Apr 21 - 06:35 PM (#4103626)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray
From: Joe Offer

Nice collection of Jack Thackray songs here:

27 Apr 21 - 05:48 AM (#4103672)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Jake Thackray
From: Georgiansilver

Jake Thackray on Youtube.