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Thread #61460   Message #2657356
Posted By: Charley Noble
15-Jun-09 - 09:28 PM
Thread Name: Origins:Jeelie Piece Song (Skyscraper Wean)-McNaug
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Skyscraper wean(jeely peice)song
I believe Celia Fisher also did a cover of the "Jeely Piece Song." What is the proper spelling of this song?

Here are some of my old notes:

Words by Adam McNaughtan ©
Recorded on The Words that I Used to Know
Greentrax CD TRAX 195D
Tune: English Music Hall "My Old Man's a Dustman"

Skyscraper Wean

I'm a skyscraper wean, I live on the nineteenth flair,
But I'm no' gaun oot tae play ony mair;
Since we moved tae Castlemilk, I'm wastin' away,
'Cause I'm getting' wan less meal every day.

Chorus:

Oh, ye cannae fling pieces oot a twinty-storey flat;
Seven-hundred hungry weans will testify tae that;
If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid be plain or pan,
The odds against it reachin' earth are ninty-nine tae wan.


On the first day my maw flung oot a piece o' Hovis broon;
It came skytin' oot the windae and went up insteid o' doon,
Noo every twinty-seven 'oors it comes back intae sight,
'Cos my piece went intae orbit and became a satellite. (CHO)

On the second day ma maw flung me a piece oot wance again;
It went and hut the pilot in a fast, low-flyin' plane;
He scraped it aff his goggles, shoutin' through the intercom:
"The Clydeside Reds huv goat me wi' a breid-and-jeely bomb!" (CHO)

On the third day ma maw thought she would try another throw;
The Salvation Army band was staunin' doon below;
"Onward, Christain Soldiers" was the piece they should have played,
But the oompah-man was playin' a piece an' marmalade. (CHO)

We've wrote awa' tae Oxfam to try and get some aid,
And a' the weans in Castlemilk have formed a "Piece" brigade;
We're gonnae march tae George's Square, demandin' civil rights,
Like "Nae Mair Hooses Ower Piece-Flingin' Height!" (CHO)

Cheerily,
Charley Noble