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Thread #88825   Message #1883847
Posted By: Mr Happy
12-Nov-06 - 12:26 PM
Thread Name: Fun With Mangled Lyrics
Subject: RE: Fun With Mangled Lyrics
The flying circus of python of Monty - Yorkshiremen "

[Of the album living at Drury lane, 1974]"

Celebrate the players: Michael Palin - first Yorkshireman;
Graham Chapman - second Yorkshireman;
Terry Jones - third Yorkshireman;
Eric Idle - fourth Yorkshireman;

The scene: Four good-clad people sit together at a holiday flight.

The farewell to tea is played on the context on Hawaiiaanse guitar.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Very reasonable Aye, which, very reasonable beetle of risotto. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Nothing loves the Chasselas, eh, Josiah a good glass Château? THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You are correctly there, Obadiah.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Who'd have suffered thirty years we'd thought all sittin Château here drinking the Chasselas, eh of being?
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In them summon we let us be glad the price of kopek have tea. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Coop cold tea.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Without milk or sugar.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Or tea.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In a head burst, all.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we had never a head. We used from a closed down newspaper must drink.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: We could lead the bests were on a piece of wet duck suck. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: But you wee'd it, were we happy in those days, although we were bad. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Because we were bad. My old papa who is used to say to me, "money buys you no luck, zoon".

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, e were correctly.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, e were.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: I was happier then and I had nothin. We used to live in this extremely small old house with large large breaches in the roof.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: House! You were happy in a house live! We used to live in one space, all twenty-six of our, no furniture, ' alf missed the floor, and we were all ' uddled together in one angle for apprehension of falling.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Eh, you were happy have a space! We used in t must live pace! FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we used to dream of livin in a pace! Ha stop ace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a refuse end. We got weeks each morning by have of a cargo of putrescent fish which is entirely dumped concerning our! House? Huh.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Well, when I say ' house ' was only one breach in the ground which by a booklet of tarred evildoer it is addressed, but a house to us was.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: We were turned off of our ole in the ground; we advertisement to go and live in a lake.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You were happy have a lake! There were hundred fifty of us those in t ' shoebox in t ' midden gone live. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: The box of the paperboard? THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Aye.




FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: You were happy. We lived three months in a document pocket in a septic tank. We used at six must stand up in the morning, clean the document pocket, eat a crust of old bread, go below t ' mill, fourteen hours per day, week-binning week-squit, for sixpence a week, and then we work house our papa will get us for slapping ' its oar to whip.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Luxuriously. We used from the lake at six hours must become in the morning, clean it more, eat hand-full of of grint, work twenty hour days at mill for tuppence a month, to house to come, and the papa would whip our to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were happy!

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Well, of course, we tough it had. We used to ' ave from shoebox at twelve hours at night omhoog to become and gone to lick clean over stand ' tongue. We two beetles of cold grint, worked twenty-four hours per day at mill for sixpence the four years, and then we house our papa will get us in two knives of the ever standing it bread to cut.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Right. I had stand up in the morning at ten hours at half hour before I to bed went, drink a head of wave lactic acid, work twenty-nine hours per day below mill, and pay mill owner for authorisation come work, and when we got house, our papa and our mother our deads and approximately on our sepulchres which sing Hallelujah dancing.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: And and tell young people try you of today that..... They will not believe you.

ALL: They!