The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2582   Message #11149
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Aug-97 - 03:06 AM
Thread Name: Parody Folk Circle I
Subject: RE: Parody Folk Circle I
I owe you for the Four Questions, Rechal. Here's the song your requested:

SHIT I'VE FORGOTTEN THE WORDS, songwriter unknown, recorded in 1995 by Hamish Imlach on "More and Merrier."

My heart is pounding within my breast
I know the first line, forgot all the rest
A memory like mine is a hell of a pest
Shit I've forgotten the words.

CHORUS
On a packet of fags I'd written them down
Threw them away as I drove into town
Now I feel a bit of a clown
'Cos shit I've forgotten the words.


2. The last time I sang them they went down a treat
Dogs were a-howling out on the street
And I spilt my beer all over my feet
'Cos shit I've forgotten the words.
CHORUS

3. Sometimes they come back line by line as I sing
Tonight I can't seem to remember a thing
Ian McCalman will know I'll give him a ring
Oh, shit' I've forgotten his number
CHORUS

4. So, come all you singers and practice your verse
If you do not you surely will curse
But I remembered the tune so it could have been worse
CHORUS

Oh, and the CD booklet graciously gives a translation for "fags" and explains it means "cigarettes."

-Joe Offer-