Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie

Subject: Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 31 Jul 26 - 10:59 AM

Please see also the related obituary thread.

  Song: STUFF THAT GIBBON
  Lyrics/Tune: Bill Oddie
  Group: The Sittingbourne Folk and Madrigal Society
  
  Take that gibbon by the hand
  Listen to the rhythm of the band
      Slap him up and down upon the floor
  Tickle his feet and hear him giggle
  Then unzip him down the middle
      Give that gibbon what he's hollerin' for
  
  (CHORUS)
  
  Ohh, stuff that gibbon, ohh, stuff that gibbon
  Ohh, stuff that gibbon now!  (*)
  Ohh, stuff that gibbon , ohh, stuff that gibbon
  Ohh, stuff that gibbon now!  (*)
  
  (* several different phrases - "Hey nonny no", "Fa-la-la-la" and
  "What for, riddle me" on the episode version and "Yeehaa",
  "Right on baby" and "Stuff it" on the album version)
    

Promenade the gibbon round the hall
  Bounce him up and down like a rubber ball
      Drop him on the floor and trample on his toes
  Swing him by the tail from the chandelier
  Happy with a hamster in his ear
      All he needs is a ferret up his nose
  
  (REPEAT CHORUS)
  
  (Gibbon noises & INSTRUMENTAL BREAK)
  
  Excuse me, can we stuff this one together?
  Why surely sir, I'd be obliged
  I think you probably will, yes!
  
  (REPEAT SECOND VERSE)
  
  (REPEAT CHORUS)
  
  This was first aired in the BBC radio programme I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again,
and popped up later as background in a chase scene in the BBC TV series The Goodies. 
Corrections, elucidations and elaborations humbly invited.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie
From: Helen
Date: 31 Jul 26 - 04:24 PM

Starting with this playlist:

Bill Oddie Songs

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Includes:
Ilkley Moor Bahat At
On a Traffic Island
The Knitting Song
I Can't Get Through
I'm in love with a lion
SAS Band - Wild Thing
Asiavision Song Contest
for a few at the top of the list. ---mudelf

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Aug 26 - 02:44 PM

Martin, did I post your song right?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 04 Aug 26 - 11:12 AM

Bingo (for suitably embarrassing values of Bing). Thanks, Joe.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 04 Aug 26 - 05:52 PM

Helen's selection is drawn from the YouTube channel, which contains some gems but be warned, many of the songs aren't Bill Oddie originals.

However, the playlist does contain Harry Krishna, so I'll repeat my request from the Obit thread: I once tried to transcribe the lyrics to Harry Krishna but failed on three or four lines / names / words that I still can't quite make out... Does anyone out there have the complete text? (Harryeally would like to get it right!)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie
From: Helen
Date: 04 Aug 26 - 06:47 PM

MoorleyMan, could you post the lyrics you do have so that we can try to fill in the gaps please.

I just tried listening to the video from the page/link I posted but the captions were off. Not being from the UK I might not get who the different people called Harry would be, as referred to in the song.

I did get Harry Secombe, Harry Worth(?), Harry Lauder(?) but I didn't understand the line after each name and I stopped there.

I know the first verse is a direct quote from the Hare Krishnas who used to roam around the streets in various towns chanting it endlessly:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare


I also remember being at a music festival in Oz about 50 years ago where everyone was camping in tents and at dawn the Hare Krishnas would walk around singing ad nauseum. Very soon a bunch of fun-guys decided to take the mickey and started walking around singing a song which started with the line "Hairy gumboot" etc etc. LOL (Well, it was funny at the time.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie
From: The Sandman
Date: 05 Aug 26 - 03:12 AM

many of the songs aren't Bill Oddie originals.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie
From: Helen
Date: 05 Aug 26 - 03:22 PM

Yes, The Sandman, as MoorleyMan already mentioned. Bill Oddie either wrote, co-wrote or performed the songs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs by Bill Oddie
From: The Sandman
Date: 05 Aug 26 - 04:38 PM

Indeed, a very talented person