Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)

Subject: Lyr Req I Puts the Lightie On
From: jojofolkagogo
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 09:10 AM

Can anyone give me the words to this song, sung by Tommy Steele way back in the er... er... 70's ?

Have go ogled it but cannot find it anywhere

regards Jo

Subject: Lyr Add: I PUTS THE LIGHTIE ON (Tommy Steele)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:32 PM

Tommy Steele's recording of I PUTS THE LIGHTIE ON is on 2 albums: "The Decca Years" (1999), and "Singing the Blues" (2009).

It's also on YouTube. from which I transcribed this:


I PUTS THE LIGHTIE ON
Sung by Tommy Steele

1. Man, I couldn't get to sleep the other night.
I was tossin' an' a-turnin' in my bed.
I remembered that I hadn't had a bite,
So my tummy rumbled up to me and said:
"Grab a sandwich, from the fridge,
In the kitchen, downstairs."

2. I decided it was quite a good idea,
So I tottered to the kitchen half asleep.
When I opened up the fridge, a light appeared,
So I opened up an eye and took a peep,
And do you know what I saw
In the kitchen, downstairs?

CHORUS: There's a little man in the fridge
Livin' with the ham and the butter.
He just has to stand in the fridge,
Wait until you open a shutter,
Funny little man with a nightie on.
When I asked him what he did,
He said, "I put the lightie on."

3. Well, I tell you this was really some surprise.
What an interesting thing to think upon!
There must be twenty million other little guys
Turning twenty million little lighties on,
Like the fellow, in the fridge,
In the kitchen, downstairs.

4. Well, he spoke to me and he was very wild.
Said, "You woke me in the middle of a dream."
And I felt just like a misbehaving child
When he told me, "I'm so angry I could scream.
Put the lightie, on yourself,
In the kitchen, downstairs."

CHORUS: Said the little man....

5. In the morning when I finally awoke,
I decided that I should apologize,
But I'm really very sorry that I spoke
'Cause apart from all the eggs and apple pies,
There was nothin' in the fridge
In the kitchen, downstairs.

6. People tell me that I must be going mad,
Or they say I must be having crazy dreams,
Others have a lot of pity on the lad,
But I'm sure it ain't as crazy as it seems,
But there's something turns the light on
In the kitchen downstairs.

CHORUS: There's a little man....

"And as far as I'm concerned, you can ... [the voice accelerates into gibberish.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 07:01 PM

I have one of those little guys in my fridge too.

His cousin sounds the beeper that beeps when you get out of the car with the keys still in the ignition.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 08:28 PM

He's a Booking Agent you know ! Every time thast light goes on I go into a Ten Minute routine !

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: Splott Man
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 08:06 AM

Words and Music by Lionel Bart, published 1958.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 01:24 PM

Just booked tickets for Tommy Steele appearing in "Scrooge" in Cardiff's "New Theatre" shortly.

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: Gurney
Date: 06 Nov 10 - 07:07 PM

Dreadful! I remember it well.

Isn't it creepy that I can remember something as appalling as that, and can't remember what I walked out to the shed for!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: GUEST,Jojofolkagogo
Date: 09 Nov 10 - 06:29 AM

hiya all, and thanks so much to you, Jim for finding the words for me, brings back a load of memories, but it is also one of those tunes which drive my brain MAD, round and round it goes, cant get shot of it now !!!

thanks all the same ~ regards from Jo~Jo

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 03:59 PM

Earlier than the 70s. Atleast as far back as the early 60s, possibly late 50s. One of the songs from my childhood.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Dec 12 - 08:22 AM

That link's dead, here's another one:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bs21_EprWM

In the comments, it states 'no description available'

Very apt, it's indescribable!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 21 Dec 12 - 10:24 AM

WOW... there is a blast from the past.

Here on the other side of the pond, I've only seen him in the film Finian's Rainbow... talk about the 99 percenters in that one....

and a small film, name long forgotten, where he was the screwup kid brother.

It was a little easier to find Dirk Bogarde films on the local channel movie slots, but not much.

I used to keep a tally of the different films I got to see of my favorite actors... this was LONG before even VHS came out... by going through the list I refreshed my memory of the films. How times have changed!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 21 Dec 12 - 04:13 PM

Amazing to recall it now, but in the mid-50's, Tommy Steele was at the cutting edge of UK rock 'n roll - on a par with Elvis for those of us who didn't know any better. Then the film 'The Tommy Steele Story' came out, and his reputation was secure for all time. That lasted until 'The Duke Wore Jeans' and 'Tommy The Toreador' were released, which left me feeling like Monty Python's lumberjacks: something had changed, our hero had feet of clay, and there was no way back.

Anyway, I got my first guitar - a blue, plastic four-stringer with Tommy Steele stickers on the front. Now I know several chords and read the Mudcat each day.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: Mr Happy
Date: 22 Dec 12 - 10:04 AM

Once upon a time there was a lickle white boow!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: GUEST,Ian Johnson
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 10:17 AM

I can help with the "descends into gibberish at the end". When I was young we had the 78 of this song, and a record player that could be spun down to 16rpm. I played it back at this speed and the final bit goes "And as far as I'm concerned you can go and take a running jump in the Thames, and if I didn't see you again I wouldn't be all that concerned!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: GUEST,Meringue
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 06:19 PM

Isn't this a Mike Pratt lyric? The syntactical wittiness seems so typical.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Puts the Lightie On (Tommy Steele)
From: GUEST,Meringue
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 06:19 PM

Isn't this a Mike Pratt lyric? The syntactical wittiness seems so typical.