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Thread #2253 Message #8759
Posted By: Alison
15-Jul-97 - 08:36 PM
Thread Name: sad country song
Subject: Lyr Add: C&W SUPERSONG (Billy Connolly)
Hi
Went looking for "My granny was drowned in the grotto at Lourdes".....couldn't find it, but got this one instead!
C&W SUPERSONG
(from the LP "Billy Connolly - Classic Connolly in words & music")
Yes my granny is a cripple in Nashville, friends
This story I tell you true
One day she went out on her wheelchair
Never knowing it had a loose screw
Well a wheel came off of that wheelchair, friends
And on three wheels it trundled away
And it trundled right over the edge of a cliff
In an old seaside town far away
(Country and Western noises)
Now the boy who was pushing the wheelchair
Was a little blind orphan call Joe
And he said, "Oh where is my grannie?"
And where did that damn wheelchair go
Well he ran off to search for that wheelchair friends
But his sightless eyes led him astray
And he ran right over the edge of the cliff
In that old seaside town far away
(Country and Western noises)
Well somebody sent for a doctor
And an ambulance too, it was called
And the people who lived in the neigbourhood
Stood around and they cried, how they balled
Well the doctor and the ambulance came rushing, friends
They were rushing from two different ways
And they crashed with a BIFF and shot over the cliff
In that old seaside town far away
(Country and Western noises)
Well they sent for brave Father Maloney
To pray for the poor souls repose
And he said, "Well now that we're gathered here, good people"
"Well we might as well pray I suppose"
But too many people had gathered
And the edge of the cliff gave way
And they dropped with a yell and they all shot straight to hell
In that old seaside town so terribly far away
(Country and Western noises)
Enjoy
Is there a separate song about the granny at Lourdes, if so I want it, or is it just an alternative title?
Slainte
Alison