Lyr Add: PYO (Kipper Family)

Subject: Lyr Add: PYO (Kipper Family)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jun 23 - 10:28 PM

This transcription is from Gayle Wade. You will notice that a few parts are missing. If you know them, please post below.
Thanks, Gayle.

PYO [reconstructed from fragments]
(Kipper family)

It was a cold May? June? morning
The weather it was freezing
The rain come down in buckets and
The birds were softly sneezing.
A maid went down to the strawberry fields
She heard a man make moan.
“Oh who will pick my strawberries?”
And she answered: “Pick your own.”

CHORUS:
With me PYO, PYO
P-Y P-Y-O.

It was a damp young farmer
A sheltrin’ in a barn.
He say: “Lend me your umbrella.”
Well, she thought there’d be no harm.
So off they went to the strawberry fields
As the floods about them fell.
She thought he was quite handsome -
And he thought so as well.
CHORUS:

Now soon they came to the strawberry fields
And they began to pick
The fruit so large and fleshy,
She filled her punnet quick.
By now they were quite soaking
From their head down to their toes.
She say: “Come back to my place
And get out of those wet clothes.”
CHORUS:

They went back to her place
(2 lines missing)
She went into the bedroom
And she took off all her clothes.
That young man took advantage
His actions were quite tawdry
For when she come back out again
He had eaten all of her strawberries.
CHORUS:

So all you fair young maidens
Who go to pick the fruit,
Don’t share your umbrella
With any selfish brute!
For if you do, you’ll lose your fruit
And have an empty punnet
And no one will believe you
When you say that you haven’t done it.
CHORUS!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Punnet of Strawberries
From: Reinhard
Date: 06 Jun 23 - 12:08 AM

THE PUNNET OF STRAWBERRIES
The Kipper Family, In the Family Way

One May morning so early
The weather that was freezing
The rain fell down in buckets and
The birds were sweetly sneezing.
This maid went down to the strawberry fields
She heard a man make moan.
“Oh who will pick my strawberries?”
And she answered: “Pick your own.”

CHORUS:
With me P-Y-O, P-Y-O
P-Y P-Y-O.

That was a damp young farmer
A-sheltrin’ in a barn,
Said: “Borrow me your umbrella.”
Well, she thought there’d be no harm.
So off they went together
As the floods about them fell.
She thought he was quite handsome
And he thought so as well.

So now among the strawberries
They both began to pick
The fruits so soft and fleshy and
They filled their punnets quick.
By now she whas wet through
From her head up to her toes.
He say: “Come back to my place
And get out of those wet clothes.”

Well thinking no harm innit
She went back to his abode
She went into the bedroom
And she took off all her clothes.
This young man took advantage
His actions were so tawdry
For when she come back out again
He had eaten all her strawberries.

So came all you dark young maidens
That go to picking up the fruit,
Don’t lend your umbrella
To any selfish brute!
For if you do, you’ll lose your clothes
And have an empty punnet
And no one will believe you
When you say that you haven’t done it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: PYO (Kipper Family)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jun 23 - 01:16 AM

Wow! Thanks, Reinhard. It's also quite amazing what Gayle was able to reconstruct from memory.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: PYO (Kipper Family)
From: Reinhard
Date: 06 Jun 23 - 07:04 AM

By all means! I hadn't listened to the album for years, but with Gayle's excellently remembered words it wasn't hard work to adapt them to Sid Kipper's performance.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: PYO (Kipper Family)
From: GUEST,RJM
Date: 06 Jun 23 - 11:07 PM

I think this stuff is best forgotten.

The Kippers performed it well, their timing was well practised and perfected to a high standard,
IMHO O

IMHO Tribute performers of the material frequently perform inferior versions which lack the performance skills of Chris Sugden and Dick Nudds, also they often do not get the Norfolk accent right.
The material was well written but often the parody was just the opposite of the original song and any weakness in the writing is exposed by floor singers who do not have the perfomance ability of the kippers or the ability to imitate the Norfolk accent

Subject: ADD: The Punnet of Strawberries (Kipper)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 01:52 AM

Gayle has now listened to a recording by the Kipper Family, and here's her revised transcription:

THE PUNNET OF STRAWBERRIES
(Kipper family)

One May morning so early
The weather that was freezing.
The rain fell down in buckets
And the birds were sweetly sneezing.
This maid was bound for the strawberry fields
When she heard a man make moan.
“Oh who will pick my strawberries?”
And she answered: “Pick your own.”

CHORUS:
With me PYO, PYO
P-Y P-Y-O.

That was a damp young farmer
A sheltrin’ in a barn.
“Can I borrow your umbrella?”
Well, she thought there’d be no harm.
So off they went together
As the floods about them fell.
She thought he was quite handsome -
And he thought so as well.

CHORUS:

So now among the strawberries
They both begun to pick
The fruit so soft and fleshy and
They filled her punnet quick.
By now she was wet through-hoo-hoo
From her head up to her toes.
He say: “Come back to my place
And get out of those wet clothes.”

CHORUS:

Well, thinkin’ no harm innit,
She went back to his abode.
She went into the bedroom
And she took off all her clothes.
This young man took advantage
His actions were so tawdry
For when she come back out again
He had eaten all her strawberries.

CHORUS:

So come all you dark young maidens
That go pickin’ of the fruit,
Don’t lend your umbrella
To any selfish brute!
For if you do, you’ll lose your clothes
And have an empty punnet,
And no one will believe you when
You say that you haven’t done it.

CHORUS!