Lyr Req/Add: Winson Green Jail

Subject: Lyr Req: Winson Green Jail
From: Scarlett
Date: 11 May 06 - 09:14 AM

Hello!

I heard someone sing this on Sunday and I took a shine to it. I've tried searching here with no luck, and all I get from Google is a load of stuff about Ozzy Osbourne doing time there!

Can anybody help?

Thanks!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winson Green Jail
From: Mark Dowding
Date: 11 May 06 - 10:52 AM

It's on an LP called "Straight From The Tunnel's Mouth" by the Boatmen
I'll find the words when I get home

Cheers
Mark

Subject: Lyr Add: WINSON GREEN JAIL
From: Mark Dowding
Date: 11 May 06 - 01:58 PM

Winson Green Jail - Trad

Oh have you been down to the jail
Where the warders they wait upon you
Where they give you free bread and water
But never no baccy to chew
And instead of a Sunday cooked dinner
You'll be counting the bricks in your cell
With a too-ra-li-oo-ra-li-addy
In a place they call Winson Green Jail

They send you down there from the steelhouse
When the bogies have finished with you
They shove you in cell block reception
In front of a bloody great screw
And instead of counting your money
You'll be counting the bricks in your cell
With a too-ra-li-oo-ra-li-addy
In a place they call Winson Green Jail

It stands in a lovely location
By the side of the old BCN
In summer it stinks like a cess pool
And in Winter it smells like a fen
And instead of hanging round Gas Street
You'll be counting the bricks in your cell
With a too-ra-li-oo-ra-li-addy
In a place they call Winson Green Jail


The steelhouse is the police station in Steelhouse Lane
BCN is the Birmingham Canal Navigation

The LP that I've got this on is "Straight From The Tunnel's Mouth" by The Boatmen - Eric Blackburn, John Grace, Pat Slattery
Published 1975
Sweet Folk and Country SFA 018

Cheers
Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winson Green Jail
From: GUEST
Date: 12 May 06 - 12:34 PM

Ooh brilliant. Thanks very much!

Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Winson Green Jail
From: Rasener
Date: 12 May 06 - 02:12 PM

And if you were a Birmingham City Supporter, you were made to clean the bogs of any Aston Villa supporter. :-)

Born in Birmingham and all my time ther (30 years) I only ever past that prison twice. No I never visited inside before you ask :-)

Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Winson Green Jail
From: Rasener
Date: 12 May 06 - 03:46 PM

>>Born in Birmingham and all my time ther (30 years) I only ever past that prison twice<<

Should have read my post before submitting :-)

Born in Birmingham and all my time there (30 years) I only ever passed that prison twice