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05 Sep 04 - 07:27 PM (#1264930) Subject: Lyr Add: You canna throw your granny off the bu From: Kitty From the dept of wierd lyrics: anyone have lyrics to this? I have a verse, but not more than that: to the tune of She'll be comin round the mountain..." You canna throw your granny off the bus, You canna throw your granny off the bus You canna throw your granny Cause she is your mammy's mammy You canna throw your granny off the bus. Any other verses? I love intelligent songs like this k |
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05 Sep 04 - 07:29 PM (#1264933) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu From: Kitty Did I use the wrong prefix? Probably should have used Lyr Req... Sorry Still new at this. |
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05 Sep 04 - 07:29 PM (#1264934) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu From: Compton Kitty, try a scottish song..but I think, "you cannae SHOVE your granny off a bus !!" |
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05 Sep 04 - 07:34 PM (#1264939) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu From: Leadfingers 'Ye Canna Shove Your Grannie' - In the D T with several verses Kitty |
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05 Sep 04 - 07:39 PM (#1264944) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu From: Compton Scottish kids song?? |
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05 Sep 04 - 07:57 PM (#1264949) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu From: Malcolm Douglas Pretty well known; but do bear in mind that there are likely to be spelling variations, particularly when Scottish song texts are posted here by people unfamiliar with the idiom, and who often have quite odd ideas about the appropriate spelling and grammar. And, of course, Scottish vernacular orthography varies a lot more than does Standard English of either the UK or American varieties. There are two files in the DT: YE CANNA SHOVE YER GRANNY (deleted-duplicate) YE CANNA SHOVE YER GRANNIE They are identical but for the spelling of "grannie / granny", and the fact that one has a link to a tune. Both were harvested (presumably by different people) from the same original text, which as it happens was supplied by someone who is very familiar with Scottish forms. The problem seems to be that the original was two separate texts, from different (print) sources, with "Granny" spelled differently in each; in the DT file they are combined as if they were a single song, though the footnotes clearly distinguish between them. |
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05 Sep 04 - 08:25 PM (#1264963) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the From: Charley Noble Kitty- Isn't wonderful that there are other people in the world who love this kind of song as well? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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05 Sep 04 - 08:32 PM (#1264966) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu From: Joybell Yes, Kitty, me too. I think I might teach my granddaughter this one. I'd forgotten about it. Thanks for reminding us. Joy |
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05 Sep 04 - 08:35 PM (#1264967) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu From: Kitty Any time!! It will be one I foist upon family members when they least expect it.... Kitty |
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05 Sep 04 - 08:59 PM (#1264980) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu From: Deckman I first heard this song on Sandy Paton's first record, in the fifties. The one where he's wearing all the hats and doesn't like to be reminded of it! CHEERS, Bob |
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06 Sep 04 - 02:39 PM (#1265441) Subject: RE: Lyr req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: GUEST,HipflaskAndy Hi Kitty - verse two was always sung in oor hoose as.... You can throw your other granny off a bus, You can throw your other granny off a bus You can throw your other granny Cause she's yer daddy's mammy You can throw your other granny off a bus ....and if I remember right, went on to... Singing I will if you will, so will I Singing I will if you will, so will I Singing I will if you will I will if you will Singing I will if you will, so will I. That's me awa' the noo. Cheerio. HFA |
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06 Sep 04 - 03:31 PM (#1265483) Subject: RE: Lyr req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: GUEST,HipflaskAndy Oops! That's what happens when ya copy and paste rather than type... I have, of course, used Kitty's original piece as a template and missed the 'mistake' there - on second read of the thread I spot the 'shove' not 'throw' bit. Aye! Should read 'shove' not 'throw' throughout. Och well, That's me away - HFA |
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06 Sep 04 - 08:34 PM (#1265645) Subject: RE: Lyr req: You canna throw your grannie off the From: Scabby Douglas If you're looking to follow up with another couple of fragments set to the same tune... try: It wis murder, mchty murder in the hoose When the cat, it done a rumba wi the moose When ah hit it it wi a poker, It done a carioca It wis murder michty muder in the hoose Ah'm no Hairy Mary, ah'm yer maw Ah'm no Hairy Mary, ah'm yer maw Ah'm no Hairy Mary Nor yer pet canary Ah'm no Hairy Mary, ah'm yer maw Oh, and you'll probably find that the song works better if you sing "canny" instead of "canna" because it rhymes, and it's also how it's pronounced here in the West (of Scotland) Ye canny shove yer granny... see? SD |
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07 Sep 04 - 04:09 AM (#1265812) Subject: RE: Lyr req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: GUEST,HipflaskAndy Och ta very much Scabby! It all comes flooding back! Of course - canny/granny Been awa' so lond I've forgotton a' I ever knew. Ta for the reminder. My family all hail fae Ayr by the way. Another one I only vaguely remember from my old granny Mac was somethin' like... As I was walking doon the road - I met a coo - a bull be goad! Cheerio the noo - HFA |
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07 Sep 04 - 12:41 PM (#1266051) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: Jim Dixon Though I'm no expert on Scottish diction, I think the spelling should be "cannae" and "grannie." In general, I have observed that Brits (and I use this term broadly, to include Scots) tend to favor –ie spellings for diminutives (Jimmie, Johnnie, etc.) while Americans favor –y (Jimmy, Johnny, etc.). Like all generalizations, this is only true most of the time, not 100% of the time. (I have to make this clear, because experience shows that any time you make a generalization at Mudcat, someone will know of an exception and will say so.) |
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07 Sep 04 - 01:42 PM (#1266086) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: GUEST,HipflaskAndy Ta Jim - whilst your quite right about that, there was no intent at presenting any of the lyric in any correct form of spelling - Scots or American - merely an attempt to put it down in a manner that read reasonably well. 'Nae' is pronounced 'nay' in many regions here in the UK - as in the expression 'nae (nay) bother' - meaning 'no problem'. To write it out as ... 'You cannae shove your grannie aff a bus' ('aff' being 'off') may have some parts of the globe reading it wrong... as 'You cannay shove yer grannee' - even though you, me and soooo many others know 'cannae' sounds as 'canny'. So, by writing it out as... 'You canny shove yer granny' - (or if you like, it could've been put as ..'you cannie shove yer grannie' - the indication is therefore given that the word endings should sound the same resulting in it being pronounced (I hope) correctly by one and all, wherever they may be. D'ye ken whit ah mean mon? Hugs - HFA |
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08 Sep 04 - 03:52 AM (#1266581) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: GUEST,Scabby Douglas (at work) Jim Dixon said:"Though I'm no expert on Scottish diction, I think the spelling should be "cannae" and "grannie."" I appreciate what you are saying, Jim. I'm pretty sure that despite living in Scotland all my life (in my fifth decade) and having a deep love and abiding interest for Scots language, I'm not that much of an expert either. However, I'd agree with Andy on this one - "cannae" is ambiguous as a pronunciation guide, while "canny" is pretty clear. Having said that , I think "grannie" and "granny" are more or less equivalent. Maybe a compromise would be be "..canny shove yer grannie.."? |
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08 Sep 04 - 05:12 AM (#1266630) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: GUEST,Lanfranc at the orifice I seem to remember Alex Campbell (or was it Alex Norton?) singing: "Ah'm no Hairy Mary, ah'm yer maw Ah'm no Hairy Mary, ah'm yer maw Ah'm no Hairy Mary I'm yer faither's fairy Ah'm no Hairy Mary, ah'm yer maw" But I don't suppose that would be PC any more! Alan |
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08 Sep 04 - 12:24 PM (#1266862) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the From: Billy Weeks I heard it as 'Ye shouldnae shove yer gronnie aff a tram', but that was long ago, when there were trams in Glasgow. |
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20 Mar 08 - 03:47 AM (#2293322) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the From: GUEST,poppy & maisy yh we know loads more! You canny throw your granny off the bus (push push) You canny throw your granny off the bus (push push) You canny throw your granny (push push) Cause she is your mammy's mammy You canny throw your granny off the bus. (push push) we'll all go out to meet her when she comes (hello granny, push push) we'll all go out to meet her when she comes (hello granny, push push) we'll all go out to meet her, all go out to meet her oh we'll all go out to meet her when she comes (hello granny, push push) we'll all have chicken and dumplings when she stays (yum yum, hello granny, push push) you canny eat your porridge with a fork (slurp slurp, yum yum, hello granny, push push) my granny has a very itchy vest (itch itch, slup slurp, yum yum, hello granny, push push) ect. x x :) x x |
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20 Mar 08 - 04:08 AM (#2293326) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the From: Jim Carroll This was the basis for the famous anti nuclear song, 'Ding Dong Dollar', in the sixties, when the British Government gave the U.S. permission to build a nuclear submarine base on the Clyde: "You canna spend a dollar when you're dead. You canna.... Ding dong dollar, everybody holler, You canna spend a dollar when you're dead. Oh the Yanks have just dropped anchor in Dunoon, And they got a civic welcome in the toon. As they walked the measured mile bonnie Marie of Argyle Was wearing spangled drawers beneath her goon. Oh we dinna give a dochan and a damn, For the heirs of Uncle Psychopathic Sam If it's to heaven that you're going, it's a quicker way than rowing ...... Can't remember the rest, but there's lots, lots more..... Good days! Jim Carroll |
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20 Mar 08 - 07:11 AM (#2293398) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: Jim McLean Great times indeed, Jim. Here are the words as we (John Mack Smith, Morris Blythman and myself)wrote them. The last verse you printed came along later but don't know from where. cho: O, ye cannae spend a dollar when ye're deid, O, ye cannae spend a dollar when ye're deid Singin' Ding Dong Dollar; Everybody holler Ye cannae spend a dollar when ye're deid Oh the Yanks have juist drapt anchor in Dunoon An' they've had their civic welcome frae the toon, As they cam' up the measured mile Bonnie Mary o' Argyll Wis wearin' spangled drawers a blow her goun. An' the publicans will a' be daein' swell For it's juist the thing that's sure tae ring the bell, O the dollars they will jingle There'll be no a lassie single Even though they maybe blaw us a' tae hell. But the Glesca Moderator dinnae mind, In fact, he thinks the Yanks are awfy kind, For it's heaven that ye're goin' It's a quicker way than rowin' An' there's sure to be naebody left behind. final chorus O, ye cannae spend a dollar when ye're deid, Sae tell Kennedy he's got tae keep the heid Singin' Ding Dong Dollar; Everybody holler Ye cannae spend a dollar when ye're deid |
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20 Mar 08 - 03:59 PM (#2293900) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the From: Jim Carroll Jim McLean (wonderful name!) I remember being on one of the Holy Loch marches in the days when women weren't served in the pubs there. Many of the marchers called into one of the pubs on the route, and finding the women couldn't get served, they walked out of the other door and back onto the march. There was nearly an hours long snake of marchers passing through the bar. Jim Carroll |
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20 Mar 08 - 11:40 PM (#2294237) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the From: Seamus Kennedy Oh ye cannae shove your grannie when she's shavin', Oh ye cannae shove your grannie when she's shavin', Oh ye cannae shove your grannie, She might slip and cut her fannie, Oh ye cannae shove your grannie when she's shavin'. Seamus |
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21 Mar 08 - 10:04 AM (#2294413) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: GUEST,Bill the Collie Ma maw's a millionaire Blue eyes an curly hair |
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22 Mar 08 - 12:23 PM (#2295180) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: GUEST Lookig at SD's post reminds me ("It wis murder, michty murder in the hoose"... etc) Originally I belive that was a part of a progression suposedly reflecting Glasgow slum life. The sequence is House -> School -> Gaol. So the 2 subsequent verses are something like : It's murder michty murder in the school Where the teacher makes you sit doon on a stool If ye dinnae ken your grammar, he'll hit you wi' a hammer It's murder michty murder in the school And it's murder michty murder in the gaol Where they feed you bread and water frae a pail If you ask them for a tinnie, they'll send you to Barlinnie It's murder michty murder in the gaol. You should find this version on an old Hamish Imlach album. Chris Muriel, Manchester |
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22 Mar 08 - 12:38 PM (#2295198) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You canna throw your grannie off the bus From: Big Tim There's a great collection of songs like 'Grannie' in Ewan McVicar's recently published book 'Doh Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee: Scots children's songs and rhymes'. |
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10 Apr 08 - 03:58 AM (#2311823) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the From: GUEST,John and Alice We wrote this verse because our grandmother fell down our stairs. You canny shove your granny down the stairs, You canny shove your granny down the stairs, You canny shove your granny cause she might wack her fannie, You canny shove your granny down the stairs |
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10 Apr 08 - 04:08 AM (#2311830) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the From: GUEST,Alice You canny whack your granny with the cane, You canny whack your granny with the cane, You canny whack your granny she'll be rosy on her fannie, You canny whack your granny with the cane. |
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10 Apr 08 - 08:44 AM (#2311971) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the From: Scabby Douglas Please note that in the UK you would NEVER suggest or refer to your granny's "fanny" or indeed "fannie", since here it means what I will euphemistically refer to as a lady's "front bottom"... Hope this helps. |
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08 Apr 09 - 12:44 AM (#2607083) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,DHL From a Scot ... "Canny" means "clever" (careful & sly too) and "cannae" means "can't" This is a Scots version of the contraction for "can not". There's also "willnae" (will not) and every child's favorite "didnae", as in "I didnae do it, Mum!" I have these lyrics and was wondering if anyone could fill in the blanks? [not the prettiest of lyrics, but my son loves them!!] O' ye Canny Shove yer Granny aff the Bus Oh, ye cannae shove yer Granny aff a bus No, ye cannae shove yer Granny aff a bus Oh, ye cannae shove yer Granny, For she's yer Mammy's Mammy No, ye cannae shove yer Granny aff a bus Singing I will if you will so will I, etc Ye can shove yer ither Granny aff a bus … Cos she's yer Daddy's Mammy Singing I will if you will so will I, etc Ye can shove yer drunken uncle aff a bus … For he needs another bottle Singing I will if you will so will I, etc Ye can shove yer ugly cousin aff the bus Cos she's ???????? (anyone??) Singing I will if you will so will I Ye can shove yer Baby Brother Brother aff a bus (Not your baby brother!) Ye can shove yer Baby Brother Brother aff a bus (oh that's so mean) Ye can shove yer Baby Brother Brother Cos ???????? (anyone??) But ye cannae shove yer Granny aff a bus (repeat first verse) |
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24 Nov 09 - 12:24 PM (#2772693) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,JC, guest Not sure for ugly cousin, "dime a dozen" kinda fits, but I doubt that's right. As for baby brother, here you go: "Ye can shove yer baby brother, cos ye've got 9 more other, oh ye can shove yer baby brother aff a bus." ... not sure if it was originally nine, I suspect any large number that fits the meter will do just fine. =) |
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29 Jan 10 - 06:06 AM (#2824324) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,Big Shug Try this. Oh she loves tae play wae Wullies grand piano. Oh she loves tae play wae Wullies grand piano. Oh she loves tae play wae Wullies, loves tae play wae Wullies. Oh she loves tae play wae wullies grand piano. |
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29 Jan 10 - 08:44 AM (#2824455) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Cuilionn This song is also featured in the series of Scottish Children's recordings done by "The Singing Kettle" (Cilla Fisher et al). We have a hantle of auld cassettes of these-- aye brilliant, though we've keekit oor lugs tae them sae mony times they're as scratchy as grannie's "awfy wooly vest." Last week a Glaswegian freend o mine brocht Mince & Tatties tae a potluck here in Maine. She and I had a grand time beltin oot the vairse whaur "She'll feed us mince an tatties when we come." |
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07 Jul 10 - 07:27 AM (#2941124) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST oh yer canny shove yer granny out the door oh yer canny shove yer granny out the door yer canny shove yer granny yer canny shove yer granny oh yer canny shove your granny out the door |
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07 Jul 10 - 07:36 AM (#2941127) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Leadfingers I havent this song sung since last Friday at the Brewery Tap in Brentford ! One of George MacColl's standards !\ |
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08 Jul 10 - 07:38 AM (#2941680) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Bloke from Poole I heard it in Moffat about a week ago, it was played over the PA as part of the background music at the Moffat Mill shop. |
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30 Jul 10 - 02:31 PM (#2955291) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1XuS-FAgI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VCWROijdwM (alternate version) |
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25 Sep 10 - 12:23 PM (#2993500) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST oh ye cannae get me grannie off the drugs, oh ye cannea get me grannie off the drugs, i cought her sniffing glue now she's selling the big issue, oh ye cannae get me grannie off the drugs. singing aye aye yippy yippy aye singing aye aye yippy yippy aye singing aye aye yippy my grannie is a hippy oh ye cannae get me grannie off the drugs. |
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16 Feb 12 - 10:49 AM (#3309490) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,smurf any one no the guitar chords |
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16 Feb 12 - 10:54 AM (#3309495) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,Eliza "Ahm no Hairy Mairy, ahm yer ma!" We used to change this to "I'm not Hirsute Margaret, I'm your Mater!" sung in a very high, posh voice. |
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16 Feb 12 - 12:11 PM (#3309562) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Nigel Parsons I'm sorry, I must admit to having serious issues with the words presented in this thread: Oh, ye cannae shove yer Granny aff a bus 1 • One should never be rough with elderly relatives. Being Scottish is no excuse. 2 • Anyway, it is quite clear that any reasonably built youngster should be quite capable of ejecting a female senior citizen from a bus (Unless it's the brolly-wielding Granny from the Giles cartoons) Might I respectfully request that we attempt to educate & inform by a careful, and extensive re-wording of this song? Oh, ye shidnae shove yer Granny aff a bus etc Cheers Nigel (Tongue very firmly in cheek!) |
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16 Feb 12 - 01:09 PM (#3309592) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Richard from Liverpool naw, shidnae disnae rhyme wi Granny the way cannae dis |
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16 Feb 12 - 01:21 PM (#3309598) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,Eliza We also sang "Swing yer Grannie through the wa'" (A suggestion for one's dance moves at the Barrowlands) After being shoved off a bus, the poor lady is then swung through a wall. Not to mention having to purchase sweets for a wain 'sittin' on yer Grannies knee, greetin' fer a wee baubie tae buy some Coulter's candy' etc etc. What have Glaswegians got against Grannies? |
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17 Feb 12 - 03:16 AM (#3309905) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Nigel Parsons Or, in line with 'Big Shug's' post above: Oh she loves tae play wae Wullies grand piano. Oh she loves tae play wae Wullies grand piano. Oh she loves tae play wae Wullies, loves tae play wae Wullies. Oh she loves tae play wae wullies grand piano. Please be careful, and don't replace 'shove' with 'toss'. The result could be unspeakable! Oh, ye cannae toss yer Granny aff a bus No, ye cannae to yer Granny aff a bus Oh, ye cannae toss yer Granny aff, Cannae toss yer Granny aff Ye cannae toss yer Granny aff a bus. |
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17 Feb 12 - 05:41 AM (#3309943) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Dave MacKenzie Here's a verse I first heard from Ian Grant at EUFSS in c1966: "You canny throw your granny off a yellow submarine" Then we used to sing this a few years ago: "Oh my Granny wears an awfy woolly vest (2x) Oh my Granny wears a vest, It's as hairy as her chest! Oh my Granny wears an awfy woolly vest." I'm not sure where it came from, but one of the meanings of grannie is a "chimney-cowl", the source of much confusion to Paw Broon in several stories, where he got it into his head that auld Mrs ..... wis stuck on the roof! (The Broons, still going strong in the 'Sunday Post') |
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17 Feb 12 - 07:23 AM (#3309973) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Jim McLean Eliza, there's no mention of a grannies in Coulter's Candy. |
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17 Feb 12 - 02:15 PM (#3310177) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,Eliza Oh dear, you're right, Jim. It's 'Sitting on yer Mammie's knee"! Sorry about that! But I've just realised, it's forty years since I was teaching in Glasgow, no wonder the memories grow dim! |
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18 Feb 12 - 12:49 AM (#3310400) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Little Hawk Whit a braw tune! |
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17 Feb 20 - 09:56 PM (#4034715) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,Katia I know this thread is old, but I wasn't sure I wanted to start a new one with this question (but I will if you all think I should)-- Not having grown up as a kid in Scotland, I'm only familiar with this song via the internet, discovered in adulthood. There seem to be two sets of words: one is the one referenced via most of this thread (discussing whether shoving various family members off the bus is an acceptable pastime), but the other set has been mentioned a couple times as well (more-tame words about going to see granny after school, she'll feed us mince and tatties, etc.). Which is correct? Or is it both? The latter set strikes me as a "sanitized" version that may have been created later when someone decided the former wasn't something that ought to be taught to kids, but for all I know, the latter set are the originals and the former cropped up among adults as a parody... (I'm pulling it out as a fun bit for a concert of Irish and Scottish music, and I want to make sure to get my history correct.) |
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17 Feb 20 - 11:42 PM (#4034719) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Helen I don't know the answer to your question Katia, but recently on a re-run of an old episode of an Australian music quiz show called Spicks & Specks, Eddie Reader was one of the guests and Ross Noble was another. Eddie was telling an anecdote about singing this song while busking and the host of the show, Adam Hills, looked totally mystified. Ross Noble started singing it and Eddie Reader joined in. They were singing the "shove yer grannie" version. I have heard this song many years ago in Australia because one of the previous members of our session group used to sing the same version sometimes. Helen |
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18 Feb 20 - 10:37 AM (#4034794) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Neither do I know a definite answer to Katia's recent question, though for some fifty years I've only ever heard the verse involving the bus and the grannie, until encountering some additions in the last decade (and a few more in the last half-hour...). One of these not included above involved a brother and the same vehicle: "O Ye cannae shove yr brither aff a bus, Naw ye cannae shove yr brither aff a bus, Ye cannae solve yr brither Fur he's a drunken blether, Ye cannae shove yr brither aff a bus"F (A derivation from Burns's "Tam o'Shanter" seems likely for the "drunken blether" part; in Scotland, and no doubt at least some other countries, "blether" can be both verb and noun, singular for a person who blethers and plural for nonsensical chat and politicians' promises). This verse was sung, or declaimed, one New Year on Portobello beach near to Edinburgh, along with some others. It may be amusing, though admittedly unrelated to the immediate subject, to know of a contribution made less than a month later and in the same location, as part of an "Alternative Burns Supper" organised by the Scottish Socialist Party. There had been a few poems and songs made by the man himself, there had been Haggis &c. previously cut up and thus not "addressed", and then this young guy with a guitar steps up to the microphone (aye, there was a P.A. system as well); "Good tae see yeez at this Burns Supper. Here's a song I just wrote a few days ago..." (and then went on to sing it! Nae kiddin'!). |
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18 Feb 20 - 11:08 AM (#4034806) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Tattie Bogle Being a Grannie of 2 Scottish grandchildren who regularly sing this in school, I love it, including the line mentioned by Guest in 2010, "Aye, yi yippie, grannie is a hippie". I think it was either Hamish Imlach or Billy Connolly who put that line in. I would usually sing "faither's mammy" rather than "daddy's mammy" in the second verse. And there are some ruder verses that we maybe don't sing with the kids, e.g. She's got a lovely naval uniform, She's git a lovely naval uniform, She's got a lovely navel, got a lovely navel, Got a lovely naval uniform. (Deliberate double spelling to indicate double entendres!) |
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18 Feb 20 - 04:56 PM (#4034874) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: weerover Tattie Bogle, Heard this many times in Glasgow Uni Queen Margaret Union early 70s. Other verses: She's got a lovely bottom...set of teeth She's got a lovely Fanny...Craddock cook book She's got a lovely country residence She's got a lovely bust of Winston Churchill ...and many more lost by my imperfect ageing memory. |
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18 Feb 20 - 07:53 PM (#4034887) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: Tattie Bogle Ha-ha, wee rover! Your memory is better than mine, but now you've jogged it, I do remember most of those verses! |
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19 Feb 20 - 03:13 PM (#4035067) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: keberoxu This does regrettably call to mind that saccharine tune from the 1950's: Throw Momma From the Train a tender Kiss ... |
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19 Feb 20 - 03:53 PM (#4035078) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,Gallus Moll Further to Eliza's fragment:- Who did you see at th9e Barraland, honey, oh honey Who did you see at the Barrowland, honey baby? Who did you see at the Barrowland, a' the wee herries in the land Come tae the Barraland ton-i-ght Swing yer maw,Swing yer paw, swing yer grannie through the wa' Come tae the Barraland toni-i-ight. (And mair verses tae be added later!!!) |
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19 Feb 20 - 10:47 PM (#4035123) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST,Katia LOL... thanks, everyone; there's always good stuff to learn on Mudcat. :) |
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20 Feb 20 - 03:25 AM (#4035139) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: GUEST Who did ye see in the picture hoose? Superman and Mickey Moose... (From a privately produced LP of kids from Glasgow singing street songs. LP is long gone but more to come if I can remember any) |
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20 Feb 20 - 01:59 PM (#4035244) Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus From: weerover ...and forgot to put my handle on that last post. |
