Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?

Subject: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: lucylu
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 06:05 PM

Hi all

As you're such a clever lot I was wondering if anyone has heard of or knows the lyrics to a song called "skinny lizzie" about a not so skinny lady sung to the tune of Galway Bay? My Granda used to sing it and I only remember parts of the lyrics...

?????????? the girls at Bangor
Their perfume could be smelt in Donaghadee
But the eau de cologne that came from Skinny Lizzie
Could be smelt away across the Irish Sea

In her bathing costume she looked tricky
??????????
But when she jumped into the pool at Pickie's
The backwash took the bandstand clean away

I think there are at least a couple more verses but this is all i can remember!

thanks! :)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: alison
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 12:20 AM

can't help with the lyrics but, the "Picky's" is probably a reference to "Picky Pool" an outdoor swimming / paddling pool at Bangor, last time I was there it was full of pedalo swans.

Bangor is about 20 miles from Belfast, and Donaghadee is just a bit further on

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 06:01 AM

There is a fairly well-known parody version of Galway Bay based largely (very largely, in some respects) on the female anatomy. "Skinny Lizzie" sounds like a Northern localisation of it.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 06:03 AM

Click here for a version of the usual parody.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 06:36 AM

There's no such thing as a 'Skinny Lizzie', believe me! ;0)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 May 15 - 12:03 PM

I have the lyrics 'lucylu' if you still want them! [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 18 - 03:23 PM

I would love these lyrics if anyone has them

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Oct 25 - 06:33 PM

Hi Folks. Any update on this enquiry? I'm keen to get the full lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: meself
Date: 13 Oct 25 - 12:23 PM

Any relation to the Irish band Thin Lizzy? I recall that they took their name from a slang name for some automobile; was it related somehow to Skinny Lizzie? Or is it all just a mind-boggling, fascinating coincidence?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Oct 25 - 06:44 PM

meself, I think you're referring to the term Tin Lizzy which is sometimes applied to vintage / antique cars such as the Model T Ford. In particular I recall the term being applied to the type of car which circus clowns use in their performance where the car explodes and falls apart in the circus ring. :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: meself
Date: 23 Oct 25 - 07:55 PM

Okay, the band is Thin Lizzy - but you got me curious, so I "did my own research" - Wiki says: "The name came from an idea by Bell about a robot character in The Dandy called Tin Lizzie,[21] which they adjusted to Thin Lizzy as a playful reference to the local Dublin accent, in which "thin" would be pronounced as "t'in".[22][23][24]".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Skinny Lizzie' song from Belfast area?
From: GUEST,PHJim
Date: 30 Oct 25 - 01:52 AM

The title reminds me of "Skinny Minny" (Bill Haley) and "Boney Maronie" (Larry Williams), a couple of rock & Roll songs that were popular in the fifties.

My skinny Minnie is a crazy chick
Six foot high and one foot thick
Well, do I love her, does a boy love pie?
Well, she is the apple of my eye
Skinny Minnie, she ain't skinny
She's tall, that's all


I got a girl named Bony Moronie
She's as skinny as a stick of macaroni
Oughta see her rock 'n' roll with her blue jeans on
She's not very fat, just skin and bone
But I love her and she loves me
Oh how happy now we can be
Makin' love underneath the apple tree