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Thread #165697 Message #3977289
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
17-Feb-19 - 06:41 AM
Thread Name: PermaThread: Songs of Adam McNaughtan
Subject: Lyr Add: THE JEELY PIECE SONG (Adam McNaughtan)
Here's "The Jeely Piece" (note that most sources spell it Jeely and not Jeelie, but I don't know which is correct - it's pronounced teh saem either way!) And you may think there are a lot of spelling mistakes, but that's just trying to imitate the Glasgow pronunciation!
THE JEELY PIECE SONG Adam McNaughtan
I'm a sky-scraper wean, I live on the nineteenth flair But I'm no gaun oot tae play ony mair. 'Cause since we moved tae Castlemilk I'm wastin' away ‘Cause I'm gettin’ wan less meal every day.
Chorus: Oh ye canna fling pieces oot a twenty 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 ninety-nine tae wan.
On the first day my Maw flung oot a daud o' Hovis broon It cam’ skitin' oot the windae and went up instead o' doon Noo ev'ry twenty-seven hoors it comes back intae sight ‘Cause my piece went intae orbit and became a satellite. Chorus
Oan the next day my Maw flung me a piece oot wance again It went up and hut a pilot in a fast, low-flying plane He scraped it aff his goggles, shoutin’ through the intercom “The Clydeside Reds huv goat me wi' a breid 'n jeely bomb”. Chorus
On the third day my Maw thocht she would try another throw The Salvation Army baund was staundin' doon below 'Onward Christian Soldiers' was the piece they should've played But the Oompah man was playing a piece 'n marmalade. Chorus
We've wrote away tae Oxfam to try an' get some aid An’ 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-flinging height. Chorus