Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 05:18 PM

An inspired suggestion, Dave. Perhaps we could have alternate versions for alternate occasions?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 05:54 PM

Yes indeed.

On a related subject, does anyone have the words to that ancient
Californian/Cockney song 'Any Old Irony'?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Smokey.
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 06:02 PM

OK. I stand corrected. So, uh, how many pieces of kitten do you have left? (999)

Only the feet I'm afraid, but they're very good for the brain. Hence the old saying, "Paws for thought". I apologise for my previous outburst, 9, if I may call you that - I thought you were discriminating against pantheists, and my great uncle Norbert on my mother's side was a pantheist. (He went to college) Besides, I'm an attention seeking twat.

Y'know, this thread has warmed the cockles of me heart, and believe me, it's not often I even have tepid ones these days.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 06:04 PM

At the vanguard of a juddering caravan,
hurriedly galloping down a dirt-track.
Six furtive figures, crooked as Caliban;
Smuggling hope to the land of the claque.

Weary, hoarse-riders; irksomely blistered.
Spent from a decade a-roving the road.
Frigging a jig for our brothers and sisters;
Stark-raving-madrigals by the cartload.

Without trepidation I sing in laudation;
Vocal salute to all travelling tinkers.
Vagabond nation joined in congregation.
United free-thinkers cry from the bryony;

"Any old irony?!"

Chorus:
Come one, come all to our travelling circus;
Cast-off your cares for the painted parade.
Whirl down the wynd like dervish-berserkers;
If life hands us lemons; we'll make lemonade.

Maybe Jay's smashed (?), drumming up passion;
Scarring forever with each brisk tattoo
Bean's in the place so bass is in fashion,
killing us all with his amp set on 2.

Watch out for Ridley The Raucously Tiddly,
Unplugged he's no Dr. Jekyll....so Hyde!
Desperate-Dan-Ramsey; deft fingers diddle.
Watching The Match on a telly stage-side.

The cat on the fiddle, Miss Georgie Biddle;
Keeping it reeling with her fugue electric.
Stuck in the middle I'll rhyme you a riddle;
Irate and eclectic my cry from the bryony;

"Any old irony?!"

Chorus:
Come one, come all to our travelling circus;
Cast-off your cares for the painted parade.
Whirl down the wynd like dervish-berserkers;
If life hands us lemons; we'll make lemonade

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: robomatic
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 06:07 PM

that last one i'd like to learn

tune? (I'm too dense to recognize if it scans like something I should know)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 06:15 PM

Robo: go to YOUTUBE

You can hear it there. Search

"any old irony"

in the quotation marks. It's a take-off on a song entitled "Any Old Iron".

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Smokey.
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 06:50 PM

"Fat Old Scum"
"Set the Controls for the Heart of the Scum"
"The Scum aint Gonna Whine Any More"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 07:52 PM

WELL. You're back at last from eating pussy, huh, Smokey?

Had it been declawed or does a guy use them to pick his teeth?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 08:25 PM

9's-

Thanks for posting "any old irony."

It's simply magnificent.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Smokey.
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 08:26 PM

Puh.. 'round here we just eats 'em. The younger the better.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 08:39 PM

Charley, thank you for your kind words. They are encouraging and I've noticed that a few other times. It's a big help when the searches sometimes take hours. I appreciate you doing that.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 03:00 AM

I think it's only the title that parodies 'Any Old Iron', and there the resemblance ends.
I was reminded of the song by the recent discussions on Mudcat about what constitutes irony and what doesn't - a 'how long is a piece of string' argument if ever there was one.

I love this song, though. We're partial to a bit of Folk Rock in these parts.

There used to be a fine band called 'Tower Struck Down' in the Crewe/Nantwich area a few years ago.

A bit 'punkier' than Skyclad, if you see what I mean, but great fun.

I haven't heard of them in ages, so I assume they've disappeared.

It may be slightly too early to designate 2010 the Year Of The Scum, but I'm loving the classic Scum song titles.

Keep 'em scumming.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Janie
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 02:55 PM

Actually, 999, I think we all come from the great SCUMNESS.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 04:13 PM

"From scum ye came and to scum ye shall return." So Saith The Lord!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 08:16 PM

Scum all you faithful!

Nay, the Christmas holiday season is long past, unless you are of the Orthodox persuasion.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Janie
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 11:28 PM

Scum floats. Cream floats. It follows that cream is scum. So...skim the scum from the top and what you have is the cream of the crop!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Smokey.
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 12:05 AM

Scream and cum.
Sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 12:45 AM

"I think it's only the title that parodies 'Any Old Iron', and there the resemblance ends."

Thanks, Dave. I've never heard "Any Old Iron". I appreciate the info.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Smokey.
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 01:22 AM

'ere, me owd china.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 03:12 AM

That's torn it. Now I can't decide which I like best.

I like 'Any Old Iron', but then again I like 'Any Old Irony'.

But which is best?

There's only one way to find out...

(Note: The meaning of this will be lost on most non-UK readers. And a lot of UK readers too, I'll be bound. But I'm not explaining it because when you have to explain a joke, it isn't funny.
Besides, there's too much explaining goes on these days. I long for the days when nothing was ever explained to anyone. My schooldays were like that).

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Smokey.
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 06:36 PM

Aye, them were the days.. and we got free milk.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 06:29 PM

It should be "Queensberry's," not "Queensbury's."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 07:07 PM

Jim.

Sorry?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 09:10 PM

Good heavens! Did Howling Eddie mispell a word? I'll have to contact him about that.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 02:26 AM

It should be misspell, not mispell. But you knew that, wright?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 06:09 AM

Oh, right! I scoured the entire thread for 'Queensbury', and looked everywhere but in the actual song. Tsk!
But perhaps its all in the performance? Maybe Eddie has a way of putting over 'Queensbury' so that it sounds like 'Queensberry'?
People have been known to do this, after all, with entire songs, turning
a nasty and offensive song into a masterpiece of satire and...er...irony.
Or so I'm told.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: Smokey.
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 08:41 PM

And not just any old irony either..

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scum are Scum! (a mild protest song)
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 04:31 PM

U mentioned Tower Struck Down in your thread - yeah they were a great band. Sadly Cal the singer passed away 14 th june 2011. A Tower website has been set up to remember all things tower - check it out you canb download all songs - towerstruckdown.com