ADD: Cod Liver Oil (various) + Orange Juice

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST,AlanB
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 10:09 AM

Many thanks to the kind tabbers who have put the lyrics and chords to this great song on the thread.
I have been looking for the chords to this song for years, having performed it a capella on a submarine and in various pubs. Armed with the chords I now plan to add "Camp bastion, Afghanistan" to the list.
Thanks again.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 07:27 AM

It's Bridgeton as in Bridgton Cross which is a suburb of Glasgow.
Hope this helps

Aw the best

Martin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST,Derek, Edinburgh
Date: 04 Mar 09 - 06:35 AM

Dim memory of a Glasgow childhood in late 50's/early 60's Gorbals, mixed parentage and a Granny in Bridgeton gives me this:

If you're feeling sad and lonley and your heart just skips a beat
You'll get your f***ing head kicked in
If you walk down James's Street [road linking Bridgeton Cross aka The Toll to the Gorbals, across the River Clyde at Glasgow Green]
Take a walk into the Mermaid [famous Bridgeton pub for generations of Rangers supporters. Became the McKenzie, then the Bridgeton Bar, now derelict but still standing]
And you'll hear a famous noise
Get out you Fenian B***ards,
We're the Brigton Billy Boys
We're the Boys from the Toll
We are loyal and we're true
And if we meet some Fenians
We are ready for a do
To the cry of 'No Surrender'
You will know us by our noise
Good luck to the Glasgow Rangers
And the Brigton Billy Boys
Hello Hello we are the Billy Boys
Hello Hello you'll know us by our noise
We're up to our knees in Fenian blood
Surrender or you'll die
For we are the Brigton Billy Boys

There's another fragment I can't fit in anywhere:

For we chased the San Toi up the Gallowgate [road linking Glasgow Cross to the East end and not far from Bridgeton]
For we are the Brigton Billy Boys

This was being sung in full by Rangers suppoters until the late 1960s, but in the same way that the original Derry's Walls lyrics became doggerelised, so with this, which is reduced to the maximum offensiveness of the 'Billy Boys' chorus sung to the tune of Marching Through Georgia.

Now for a bit of balance, can someone take on these two half-remembered songs from games at Celtic Park in the 1960s, and fill in the blanks?

"And I'll stand in the van
Like a loyal Irishman
And stamp out the forces of the Crown"

and the version of 'Off to Dublin in the Green' with this lyric:

"We're off to Dublin
In the Green, in the Green
With our bayonets flashing in the sun
And the bayonets clash with the Orange sash
To the echo of the Thomson gun"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil - 'Hairy Mary'
From: GUEST,Derek
Date: 04 Mar 09 - 07:43 AM

In Glasgow in the the 1960s a 'Hairy' had come to mean a working class female who was regarded as a likely respondent to sexual overtures.
However, I understand that the origin is after the first world war when many more females were in the workforce. 'Hairies' were those working class girls who did not wear hats. There's a reference to this somewhere in 'No Mean City', which is much derided by Glasgow folk as unrepresentative, but was still pretty accurate when I was growing up in the Grobals during the late 50s and early 60s.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 09 - 12:37 PM

This is how I play it. I think it sounds like Hamish's version.
You should get the rythm from the verse.
Intro and between verses - strum Am/E x3
Verse
      Am       C          Am         C
Well oot o the east there came a hard man
Am C Am                   C
Oh oh aa' the wey frae Brigton
Am C   Am      C       Am       C             E    Am
Ah ha glory hallelujuh, cod liver oil and the orange juice

etc, etc

Hope this helps. I'm trying to learn the 37 bus, but am finding it hard to fit Nicky Tams chords into the song. Any help gratefully received !!

Cheers

BigAl

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST,Joe McD
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 12:07 PM

For the benefit of anybody still looking for chords. I have collated the various versions that I can find on the web.

Going to try them tonight see which one(s) sound right or possibly scrap it and try and work it out for myself.

Em
Virgin Mary had a little baby,
       Am                   Dm
Oo-ooh, pretty little baby,
          Em                  
Oo-oo-oh, glory hallelujah!
G                     B7         Em
Glory be to the newborn King!



Am G Am G

[Am] Well, oot of the [F] east, there [Am] came a hard man,
Ohh [F] oohh, all the way from [G] Brichton
Ah [Am] hahh, glory halle [G] lujah,
[Em] Cod liver oil and the orange [Am] juice.



[Am] Oot o' the [F] east there [Am] cam' a wee hard man ,
Ah, Ha [C] a' the way frae Brigton,

Chorus
[Am] Oh, Oh, Glory Hallelujah,
Cod liver oil and the [G] orange juice,


Em C Em C
WELL OOOTA THE EAST THERE CAME A HARD MAN,
Em C Em D
WOH HO HO ALL THE WAY FROM BRIGTON.
Em C Em Bm Em C D Em
AHH HA GLORY HALLELUIA, COD LIVER OIL AND THE ORANGE JUICE

Intro and between verses - strum Am/E x3
Verse
      Am       C          Am         C
Well oot o the east there came a hard man
Am C Am                   C
Oh oh aa' the wey frae Brigton
Am C   Am      C       Am       C             E    Am
Ah ha glory hallelujuh, cod liver oil and the orange juice

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: irishenglish
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 05:20 PM

For completist sake-Great Big Sea did a version of this on their album The Hard And The Easy, I don't remember who they may have attributed it to off the top of my head.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 01:55 AM

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/greatbigsea/codliveroil.html

"Cod Liver Oil"

I'm a young married man and I'm tired of life
Ten years I've been wed to a pale sickly wife,
She's nothing to do only sit there and cry
Praying and praying to God she would die.
A friend of my own came to see me one day
He told me my wife she was pining away
He afterwards told me that she would get strong
If I get a bottle from dear Dr John.

Oh doctor, oh doctor, oh dear Dr John
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of my life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.

I bought her a bottle, well just for to try
And the way that she drank it you'd think she might die
I bought her another, it vanished the same
And then she got cod liver oil on the brain.
I bought her another, she drank it no doubt,
And then she began to get terrible stout,
And when she got stout well of course she got strong
And I became jealous of dear Dr John.

Oh doctor, oh doctor, oh dear Dr John
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of my life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.

Me house it resembles a great doctor's shop
Its covered in bottles from bottom to top
Well early the morning the kettle does boil
You would swear it was singing of cod liver oil.

Oh doctor, oh doctor, oh dear Dr John
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of my life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking
Oh doctor, oh doctor, oh dear Dr John
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of my life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: Jim McLean
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:07 AM

Two different songs, obviously.

"Cod Liver Oil" is a song about a traditional medicinal drink for many Newfoundlanders. Cod liver oil in the traditional way of manufacture was sun cured and served in bottles in its raw form. The song was written by Johnny Burke (1851-1930), a balladeer from St. John's, Newfoundland. It has been recorded by the Irish band The Dubliners and by Newfoundland folk rock Band Great Big Sea on their album The Hard and the Easy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 01:08 PM

'Sahara an ra camules' is the pronounciation I use - -!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST,Iain Wallace
Date: 22 May 12 - 05:40 PM

As this thread has a long way to go before it gets its pension I'll add one obscure fact.

In "VP and cider" the VP was indeed a cheap fortified wine. VP stands for "Vine Products" and was produced from imported grape juice concentrate. It was made in concrete tanks at Kingston on Thames, and could therefore call itself "British Wine".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST,Phil Racher
Date: 03 Oct 17 - 06:01 PM

Some of the large tanks at Vine Products and Whiteways Ltd were concrete but many were traditional steel banded wood made and maintained by the onsite coopers Sid and Fred Arun.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 04 Oct 17 - 06:47 PM

Close to the shipyards in Greenock there were pubs that used to have products like VP wine, Lanliqu (? no idea how to spell that!!) and the like on the gantry!!!
I have also heard tell that when the whistle blew for the end of shift and men poured into the various pubs, there were trays and trays of drinks ready-poured - a
bit like when you go to a wedding or funeral these days, but multiplied!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 04 Oct 17 - 06:48 PM

was El Dorado another of those type of drinks?

Subject: Lyr Add: TRAVELLING DOCTOR'S SHOP
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 04 Oct 17 - 07:04 PM

Wonder if you know this medical song

Travelling Doctor’s Shop
John Connell
Miltown Malbay
Recorded in Marrinan's Bar, Miltown Malbay August 1975
Carroll Mackenzie Collection

I’ll tell you of a pal of mine as cute a sort of saint,
Who always thought he had a sort of serious complaint.
Shivers and shakes and various aches and likewise, dippedye dal,
I never saw such a man before for taking chemical

She wore the belt, whenever he felt, a pain in her did-il-dy push.
A comical vest to save her chest the common-a or the cush
She drank quinine and spirits and wine, to cure the didy pop
Until she became- a what's the name - the travelling doctor's shop

She used to wear a nose machine whenever she went to bed;
She nailed her will to the window-sill in case they'd find her dead.
She drank a blend of treacle purify her blood,
Oh she never reached the bed in case perished in the mud.

And when she called the dipped di dal, the poor old lad was dead
Off they went, the doctor was sent for medicine to be taken
The servant girl, she couldn’t spell, for she being in the boozelem,
Shut her up and get her the stuff and now she’s in Jerusalem

She wore the belt, whenever she felt, a pain in her did-il-dy push.
A comical vest to save her chest the common-a or the cush
She drank quinine and spirits and wine, to cure the dipidy pop
Oh, ‘til she became- a what's the name - the travelling doctor's shop

Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST,Mrrzy
Date: 06 Oct 17 - 11:24 PM

I had this by Oscar Brand, not the OJ one, the sickly wife one.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 11 Oct 17 - 07:08 PM

In reply to Gallus Moll, Adam McNaughtan does mention "Eldo" in his "Erchie Cathcairt" song!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: GUEST,July
Date: 24 May 19 - 01:35 AM

Can anyone clear up what’s going on in this line:

Spoken:"Never say die; sways aboot non-chalantly pickin' his nails wi' 'is bayonet; an 'e
    knocks 'er off!..."

I feel like I’m missing a metaphor here that going to be obvious when someone explains it. Also, Just wanted to see if I could bring back a thread going since 1997 in 2019. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 May 19 - 03:47 PM

Back to orininal post.... Here is a vid of Hamish Imlach singing 'Cod liver oil and the orange juice'    https://youtu.be/040VB06-s1k

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cod Liver Oil
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 28 Apr 21 - 04:45 PM

Here's a fifty-year old memory: When I first heard Imlach's "Cod Liver Oil" I had a hard time understanding what was being talked about. I got it that the hard man had taken Hairy Mary up the dunny for a quick one but the next line had me really confused: "Oot cam her mother, she was gaun tae the cludgie/Oh ho ho, a bucket of shardfish"

A what?

Was it something to do with the cludgie? Where did she get a bucket of shardfish from? And what did she do with it? I thought maybe it was German - "schardfisch", kinda like rollmops. Was it disinfectant? A replacement for toilet paper? It was only reading this thread that put me right and corrected my mondegreen.

Jon Bartlett