Lyr Req: Man with Three Balls / Librarian's Lament

Subject: Lyr Req: The Man With Three Balls
From: GUEST,Ray
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 09:41 AM

Does anyone remember this song, which I last heard sometime in the 70s?

No Idea who wrote it. Can't remember who sung it. But it was about a woman going into a bookshop looking for a book on "pornography" for her husband. Turns out he was a pawn-broker - hence the title.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man With Three Balls
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 09:52 AM

I just refreshed the thread

Lyr Req: Pawnbroker's wife

You'll find your answers there. I hope.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man With Three Balls
From: GUEST,Auldtimer
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 09:54 AM

I rember this song from John Leonard of John Leonard amd John Squires fame. Also of BBC fame.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man With Three Balls
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 09:55 AM

Absolutely nailed. Well, I did spend some time sifting through other alternative "Three Balls" songs. Amusing but no probables. Guess I should have checked here first.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man With Three Balls
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 09:58 AM

Hey, Charley. I got to the Mudcat thread through Mr Google. I always have a helluva time with the MC search engine, and in this case I couldn't make a blue clicky to link to it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man With Three Balls
From: GUEST,Ray
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 10:31 AM

11 minutes - not bad!

For posterity, the other thread is Here.

Can anyone remember the tune?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man With Three Balls
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Aug 11 - 02:19 PM

Tres Huebos (SP?)
Don Imus discovered he had a thrid appendage sometime in the 70s.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man With Three Balls
From: gnomad
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 06:42 AM

GUESTRay; I think the tune is that of The Waterford Boys. I know it as the Librarian's Song, a nice daft song that I only sing very occasionally.

Sadly I never got to see my Dad's reaction to it, though I think he would have liked it, particularly the intro. He was a librarian whose pet bugbear was the line "I'm looking for a book." They had 13 floors of those (and a big basement of microfilm) and he looked for a bit more clarity from the 'academics' he was trying to serve.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Man With Three Balls
From: Girl Friday
Date: 14 Aug 11 - 08:37 AM

Words by John Conolly - who was a librarian. I heard it sung by Martin Young (Martin Long) from Faversham