Lyr Req/Add: Welly Boot Song (Billy Connolly)

Subject: Lyr Add: THE WELLY BOOT SONG (Billy Connolly)
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 11:59 AM

Love it, Embow!

Áine, if we do put the other two verses in dialect, let's do them side by side of all verses, so there's two versions, okay? T'anks!

Met: here's Billy's song. I am afraid my little effort doesn't come close in calibre. Others of his lyrics can be found here

THE WELLY BOOT SONG
(Billy Connolly) (from the LP "The Pick of Billy Connolly")

CHORUS: If it wasn't for your wellies where would you be?
You'd be in the hospital or infirmary,
'Cause you would have a dose of the flu or even pleurisy,
If you didn't have your feet in your wellies.

Oh, wellies they are wonderful! Oh, wellies they are swell,
'Cause they keep out the water and they keep in the smell,
And when you're sitting in a room, you can always tell
When some bugger takes off his wellies. CHORUS

Oh, and when you're out walking in the country with a bird,
And you're strolling over fields just like a farmer's herd,
And somebody shouts, "Keep off the grass," and you think, "How absurd!"
And SQUELCH you find why farmers all wear wellies. CHORUS

There's fishermen and firemen, there's farmers and all,
Men out digging ditches and working in the snow.
This country it would grind to a halt and not a thing would grow
If it wasn't for the workers in their wellies. CHORUS

Oh Edward, Heath and Wilson they haven't made a hit.
They're ruining this country more than just a bit.
If they keep on the way, they're going we'll all be in the (shhhhh)
So you'd better get your feet in your wellies. CHORUS

(c)Mews Music Ltd

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Note from Joe Offer: the lyrics above are very close to this Billy Connoly live recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFIBVNhjs7E

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: MMario
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 11:43 AM

A reasonable request, Áine, though I will say that reading scots dialect really isn't (IMHO) any harder then deciphering the spelling on high school papers, and a GREAT deal easier than reading the grocery list my family writes.

MMario

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Áine
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 11:25 AM

Dear Mbo,

If you're going to do your verses in the Highland dialect, could you *please* provide translations for the folks that do not understand that dialect? That way, everyone can enjoy the words!

Thanks, Áine

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 11:19 AM

Can you put kat's and my verse into dialect?

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 11:03 AM

Met...it's mine. After reading and enjoying tons o' Scots Highland dialect poetry--my alter-ego Buidhe Theamhdaigh kicks in, and I just start writing stuff like that! There's more to come...

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 11:00 AM

That's delightful Mbo! is that the Welly song by Billy Connolly that kat was referring to or is that your own? Either way its great.

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 10:23 AM

A toast noo tae the Welly
Let their praises e'er be sung
For nathin' is sae unco' fine
When scoopin' up the dung!

The King o' a' the bootie race
Wha's match ha' ne'er been met
When ramblin' frae the Hielan' snaw
Or braes a' soggie wet!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Áine
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 10:10 AM

Keep going, you two! This promises to be one of the Mudcat Classics and a wonderful candidate for the Mudcat Songbook!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Night Owl
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 01:12 AM

kat and Metchosin....great song!!!!

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 01:03 AM

Metchosin, no problem, as I said, "please anyone feel free to add on". I LOVE what you added, in keeping with that *stable* motif, ya know?**BG** I just was thinking of Bert and some of the songs he sings when the words showed up in my, my, uh,....oh, yea, in my brain!

Thank you!

k(lower case)at

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 12:52 AM

Kat, I didn't know if you were waiting for some lines from Bert or if anyone could add a few, but I'm in such an elated state from making my first link, I thought I'd take a chance. Hope the lyrics didn't go somewhere you didn't intend.

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 12:42 AM

Great! Love the addition! Congrats on your first blue clicky thingie!

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 12:41 AM

oops!
I'm done with currying withers
I'm done with currying ass
The only currying I'll do
Is for favours with maids in the grass.

Got so excited over my blue clickety thingy I forgot the br's.

Subject: RE: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Jan 00 - 12:38 AM

I'm done with currying withers I've done with currying ass The only currying I'll do Is for favours with maids in the grass

Subject: BERT! Started some lyrics for ya!
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Jan 00 - 09:21 PM

Hey, Bert and everyone else, I was trying to nap this afternoon, when a silly song Billy Connolly sings about his "wellies" came to mind; then some words came to mind, no tune, and they seemed to be of a genre you might enjoy, so, no nap and.....here's a start, please anyone feel free to add on:

Confiscate my galoshes
Take my rubbers please
I've done with mucking horses arses
It's come up to my knees

I'd like to hang out in my wellies
In a fine and clover scent
So all the pretty lasses know
That I'm a gent

katlaughing