Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window

Subject: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: GUEST,Grizzo
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 09:51 PM

Hi I'm looking for lyrics to a song I was taught when I was wee, can't remember the name or the lyrics but I do know that it involved a jam sandwich and a multi-storey window. It's a humourous Scottish song and it would be great if anyone knows what I'm on about.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Peace
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 10:10 PM

A jam sandwich is slang for a police car.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey windo
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 10:23 PM

There is a similar by O. Henry (aka.. William Sydney Porter) there are also (USA) references to to physical violence.

Jam it into a phrase and perhaps we can sandwhich this together?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Grizzo - why do you ask? where are you from? where (Date/Location) did YOU become become familiar with the term?

Dick, Susan, Max, Joe, Pencil

You have permitted a decade of opportunity to slip-slide-slush through the mesh of collection.

TEMPLETS!!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Effsee
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 11:01 PM

The Jeely Piece Song by Adam McNaughtan.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Peace
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 11:05 PM

Digital Tradition Mirror

The Jeelie Piece Song (Skyscraper Wean)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: leeneia
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 11:20 PM

Um. is the premise that the singer is a kid whose mother used to feed him lunch by flinging a sammich out the window?

If so, is that the norm across the pond?

(Thanks, Effsee and Peace.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Peace
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 11:37 PM

Welcome. What language is it in?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Peace
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 11:43 PM

The Jeelie Piece

I'm a skyscraper wean2); I live on the nineteenth flair;
But I'm no' gaun oot tae play ony mair,
'Cause since we moved tae Castlemilk, I'm wastin' away
'Cause I'm gettin' wan meal less every day.

Refrain:
Oh ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty storey flat,
Seven hundred hungry weans'll testify, to that.
If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid is plain or pan,
The odds against it reaching earth are ninety-nine tae wan.

On the first day ma maw flung oot a daud o' Hovis broon;
It came skytin' oot the windae and went up insteid o' doon.
Noo every twenty-seven hoors it comes back intae sight
'Cause ma piece went intae orbit and became a satellite.

On the second day ma maw flung me a piece oot wance again.
It went and hut the pilot in a fast low-flying plane.
He scraped it aff his goggles, shouting through the intercom,
'The Clydeside Reds huv giat me wi' a breid-an-jeely bomb'.

On the third day ma maw thought she would try another throw.
The Salvation Army band was staundin' doon below.
'Onward, Christian Soldiers' was the piece they should've played,
But the oompah man was playing a piece an' marmalade.

We're wrote away to Oxfam to try an' get some aid,
An' a' the weans in Castlemilk have formed a 'piece brigade'.
We're gonnae march to George's Square demanding civil rights
Like nae mair hooses over piece-flinging height.

1) jam sandwich
2) child (wee one)


In 'The Jeelie Piece Song' the plight of those living in multi-storey blocks is put in terms of mothers' difficulty in throwing down sandwiches to their children. In the four-storey tenements of Glasgow this had always been the practice, but in the new estates like Castlemilk it was not so easy.

From here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 11:50 PM

you can hear it sung by kids in Glasgow at the St. Joseph's School Choir of Castlemilk here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Jim Lad
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 12:56 AM

MATT MCGINN does as good a job as any.
A "Piece" in Scotland, is a sandwich.
A piece an' jam is a jam sandwich a piece an' cheese etc..
It also becomes a generic term for what North Americans call a "Packed Lunch".
Thus: "Whit's oan yer piece?" = "What did you bring for lunch today?"
Jeely is of course "Jelly" ie. the clear seedless jam.
Not to be confused with "Jelly" which is served as dessert and referred to as "Jello" on some continents.
"I like aeroplane jelly, aeroplane jelly for me" Dating back to a time when aircraft were kept in flight by something that we could actually see because the windows matched the seat rows and you could tell if one wasn't working.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey windo
From: GUEST,Wullie Broon
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 04:29 AM

Leenia, yes, it is quite normal in Britain, especially in Scotland, and more especially in the Tenements of Glasgow, to deliver sustenance to one's offspring by hurling it from an upper window. This is why jeelie pieces are favoured. Thick pea and ham soup, consomme, Irish stew and sago pudding are generally less favoured, and salmon en croute is fairly rare. Sizzling Szechuan steak has been known to cause third- degree burns when caught.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: GUEST,Grizzo
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 11:50 AM

Cheers Peace, that's the song I was lookin for, I'm from Dundee, Scotland we learnt this song in school. Brings back old memories

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Effsee
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 11:55 AM

Hey Grizzo! Ehm fae Dundee tae! Whaur are ye noo?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: GUEST,Grizzo
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 01:22 PM

Used ti live in Hulltoon, now em in Meenie :(

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Effsee
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 04:29 PM

The Hulltoon!....strangely enough jist red this the day on thi Footstompin' Forum!...

Hilltown FM, 107.5FM, a community radio station in central Dundee, will be doing a one hour folk show from 3pm – 4pm Sunday afternoons, 8th/15th/22nd/30th April presented by Sheena Wellington. They're will be a local gig and session guide, local guests and generally a good mix of old and new tracks.

kinn ye pick that up in Meenie?
Ehm thinking that's Menzieshill but it's a lang time seence Eh lived in Dundee. Eh live in the big T o' the heilan's...THURSO.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Peace
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 04:38 PM

All we're missing here is Meg and her Dauvitt.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: leeneia
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 07:10 PM

Thank you, Wullie Broon and Bill D. Cute singing, that!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: jam sandwich and a multi-storey window
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Apr 07 - 10:02 PM

See THE JEELIE PIECE SONG (SKYSCRAPER WEAN) in the DT, and links from there to 3 other threads about it.