Subject: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Max Tone Date: 07 May 01 - 06:56 PM This came round thro' the ether. Dunno who wrote it, but they got it spot on.......wish I had a name to credit, 'cos it is a GREAT parody. Pure " A social comment on the cross-cultural influences in 21st century Scottish city life", complete with appropriate profanities, relevant to those cultures. Not for the faint hearted Apologies for any missed line breaks -- there's lots of it.........translations to follow, if I remember -- if not, I'll post them back, later. GLASWEGIAN (Weegi) PIE (to the tune of American Pie)
A long long time ago, I can still remember
I met a girl who sang 'The Sash',
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Haruo Date: 07 May 01 - 08:20 PM Thanks! A tour de quelque chose! Líolaind |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: katlaughing Date: 07 May 01 - 10:13 PM Absofuckinglutely priceless!! Glad I wasn't trying to drink anything when I read this; I'd've aspirated! Thanks!! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,chullainn Date: 08 May 01 - 08:39 AM could "menshies" mean "menshevik" (i.e., communist) slogans? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Max Tone Date: 08 May 01 - 07:59 PM Aw weel, Chullainn, Forbye yer graffiti theory assumes they Weegi Bams hae eneuch intelligence tae unnerstaun Russkie, ye've goat cloasest yit.......I'd bin lookin' at 'mentions' -- probably wench witticisms........I've asked a few Weegis, an' they dinnae ken......... Oh, dear, a sick joke that only works in Scots Q -- "Whit's the difference atween Bing Crosby, an' Walt Disney?" A -- "Bing sings, an' Walt Disnae!" 'night all Rob |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 08 May 01 - 08:58 PM That's a classic. I want to hear that sung, and sung right. If Christy Moore came from Glesca he'd do it justice.
Surely Timaloi is from Tim Malloy or Tim Mallone? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Scabby Douglas Date: 09 May 01 - 04:27 AM A "menshie" - is Glasgow slang for graffiti which features the perpetrator's name - a "mention". Hope it helps SD |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: wysiwyg Date: 09 May 01 - 09:28 PM Where is LJC??
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Max Tone Date: 13 May 01 - 02:13 PM Cheers, Scabby an' McGrath, Another couple fer the vocab. Rob |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Linda Kelly Date: 13 May 01 - 02:18 PM 2nd line last verse -classic! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Charley Noble Date: 13 May 01 - 02:29 PM Wow! The music never died! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Fibula Mattock Date: 14 May 01 - 07:45 AM Fantastic! Absolute genius! I see that bampots are the same as spides in Norn Ireland. For anyone unfamiliar with the nectar of the gods, Buckfast (a drink also much favoured by Armagh folks and Ulster winos, hence its alternative name of "Lurgan champagne"), here's a description. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Noreen Date: 14 May 01 - 08:24 AM A night out at Archaos : Archaos being a group of performance artistes who juggle with fully-functioning chainsaws and suchlike... i.e. they are haaaaaaaaaard! Great song, Rob! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,Moleskin Joe Date: 14 May 01 - 09:18 AM Sorry Noreen but the Archaos referred to is a night club in Glasgow. Ian M. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Noreen Date: 14 May 01 - 03:29 PM Ah well- now I know. :0) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,Moleskin Joe Date: 14 May 01 - 04:00 PM Noreen, For what its worth there but for the grace of god go I (several times) Ian M. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Celtic-End Singer Date: 14 May 01 - 07:30 PM As a proud Glaswegian who despises the neds who lower the tone of the place and thought the song was bloody fab I thought I should offer some linguistic assistance. "Chib" is a noun which means a noun a knife or blade. It this context it is used as the verb "to chib" which means to stab or slash. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Max Tone Date: 24 May 01 - 04:39 PM Celtic-End Singer -- I agree that chib is usually a knife, or stabbing/slashing as the verb, but the context in this case seems different. Even weegi neds would stop short of cuttin' up a polis, I reckon. A heid-butt, or deckin' him wi' a right hook sounds more likely. "Chibbed his napper" or "Chibbed him across the napper" would be more likely to imply a slashing, but "On" the napper??? Chambers doesnae mention "chib",which is used frequently all over Scotland but Chap, Chip and Chop mostly have double meanings of a cut, or blow. Chib is probably from a similar root, but I'm nae linguist!------------Whaddaya think? Someone must know who wrote it --- they deserve a medal! Rob |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: jacko@nz Date: 24 May 01 - 06:59 PM Chiv in romany is a knife or to stab |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Scabby Douglas Date: 25 May 01 - 05:17 AM Hmmm... only other note is that while Senga is inded Agnes spelled backwards, it is in fact not an uncommon given name. Hope it helps SD |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,numpty Date: 25 May 01 - 06:56 PM Absofuckinlootly brilliant. In ned-speak, "pure quality man". To my knowledge, a chib is simply a weapon, not necessarily a blade. A baseball bat is a chib. DC |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Max Tone Date: 08 Oct 01 - 04:55 PM Refreshed, At the request of several participants (in the Chorus!) at Penicuik Folk Fest mega closing session yesterday. The many 'catters there kent it a'ready, but this'll draw in some new recruits to the forum.............. Rob |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:46 PM |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:46 PM |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,Max volume Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:55 PM Nice to have some wee weegie bampot spreading his sectarian - what's the polite word for excrement - at time when we're bombing the shite out of another lot of religious bigots.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,Ned Date: 08 Oct 01 - 06:08 PM To numpty, Numpty by name and nature. Ever been chibbed? Doubt it. Baseball bat my rear end. See the Barras - See Saturday night - See the Fifties - Rock an Roll an a' that see you when when you've been chibbed - smile a mile wide. Away hame an' grow up. Love an' kisses Big Vince P.S. Don't step on ma blue suede shoes (if you can reach that high) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 09 Oct 01 - 07:18 AM Have sung this pure dead magic gem (with safety net of the wurds) at Whitby, Warwick and Bromyard it's gone doon fair stoatin |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Jock Morris Date: 09 Oct 01 - 05:11 PM Sectarian???? What the f**k is sectarian about this song???? Speaking as one of the Penicuik chorus singers I reckon it's pure dead brilliant so it is. Scott |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: MC Fat Date: 10 Oct 01 - 04:55 AM Presume spreading the sectarian shite is the bit about 'She's from Ibrox and he's a Tim'. Grow up Max, religious sectarian bigotry has been goin on for donkeys years in Scotland not singing funny songs isn't going to stop it educating the masses is. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Scabby Douglas Date: 10 Oct 01 - 07:57 AM MCFat: you are spot-on about education being the solution for bigotry. This is a true conversation that occurred in my wife's place of work a few years ago.
Dramatis Personae: ....
Ann: ... well, after all, we're all Christians Cheers Steven
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,Scabby Doug Date: 10 Oct 01 - 09:38 AM Absolutely brilliant conversation Doug reminds me of my son who had and still has a penchant for getting his words and joined up thinking wrong (or funny). I said one of my usual stating the obvious sayings (might start a thread see if anyone has got any new ones !!) like 'Is the Pope a Catholic ?' . To which he replied 'but dad is he a Catholic or a Roman Catholic ?' |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 10 Oct 01 - 09:51 AM Sorry Doug I put you down as me there when it should have been me. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Scabby Douglas Date: 10 Oct 01 - 10:22 AM MC Fat - I have now slapped the side of my head several times, and I just about understand the last two posts... Oh by the way sorry about the typos in my (own post) "came on " should have been "come on" and "Romand" should have been "Romans" Cheers
Steven |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 10 Oct 01 - 10:26 AM Sorry Doug I blame it on the lack of Lunatic Soup we cannie get it doon here !! 'He ain't heavy he drinks Buckfast !!' Could be another parody there. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: RangerSteve Date: 11 Oct 01 - 09:01 AM Is there such a thing as a Scottish/English - English/Scottish dictionary? If there is, where can I get one? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,Gt Date: 24 Dec 18 - 11:36 AM Brilliant song. But what is "cheese" reference in bus shelter..and what is "cappa" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: GUEST,LynnH Date: 25 Dec 18 - 03:47 AM Great!!!!!!!!!! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GLASWEGIAN (American) PIE From: Tattie Bogle Date: 25 Dec 18 - 03:55 AM Don't see any reference to cheese anywhere in the song? Do you mean "geezer"? If, so that just means her man or "fella". Kappa was a brand of sportswear much favoured by "neds" among others: quite expensive, so probably also nicked (stolen). |
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