Lyr ADD: The Wine Song (Grant Baynham)

Subject: The Wine Song
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:54 AM

Having just been lucky with my last request we'll try for this one. The Wine Song by Grant Baynham. I did have in a book which I bought at Bromyard the book was to come with his tape but Dragon Records were selling it on it's own so I bought it but then someone has 'lost' it before I learned it properly. Anyone got it ?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Wine Song
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:58 AM

I have posted the lyrics to this on the 'Cat before, can't remember when or where.

Murray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Wine Song
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 07:37 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Wine Song
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 09:42 AM

A snippet would help. Someone may have the words but under a different title.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Wine Song
From: MC Fat
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 09:49 AM

Chorus goes...........
You can tell your wine by the quality of the vine
the bouquet the colour and all that junk
but it all comes down to the falling over factor
and the fact that it gets you drunk

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Wine Song
From: CraigS
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 07:57 PM

I have to admit that my computing diploma did not equip me to do blue clickies, but there's nothing wrong with Murray's memory - the thread with the lyrics comes up if you search Falling Over Factor.

Incidentally, I've got a song which refers to this one by containing the lines

There are those who choose to drink stuff that's not fine
Not caring for the vintage of the wine
My friend Grant goes for the Falling Over Factor
But he's fallen down so many times he needs a chiropracter

but I've never finished it - whenever I do, I'll post it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Wine Song
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 10:51 AM

Still would like the wurds to this great number

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Wine Song
From:
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 10:59 AM

Here you go:

THE WINE SONG by Grant Baynham

Thread #45460   Message #672493
Posted By: Murray MacLeod
20-Mar-02 - 07:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: French Wine Guide
Subject: Lyr Add:THE WINE SONG (Grant Baynham)

THE WINE SONG

by Grant Baynham


There are those who like their wine because it adds sophistication
To that hearty meal they're serving to their friends
And there are those who like their wine because it helps in the creation
Of that party feel on which so much depends
Then there are those who like their wine to come from eastward-facing chateaux
On the the plateaus of the Loire and all that bunk
Their motives are not mine,
I like lots and lots of wine
But I like it 'cos it makes me drunk.

There are those who take a glass because it helps them to relax
They find it helps their social manner to improve,
It's a jolly useful scheme
Which I have taken to its logical extreme
Sometimes I get so well relaxed I can't move
Then there's another kind of fellow drinks champagne to get him mellow
And he swears by Clicquot, Bollinger and Brut
I tried some Brut myself, I found it on the bathroom shelf
And he was right, it got me mellow as a newt.

REFRAIN: You can gauge your wine by the quality of the vine,
The colour and bouquet and all that bunk
But it all comes back to the falling-over factor
And the fact that it gets you drunk.

There are those who like to think that it's important what they drink
They haven't got an inkling what it's all about
They spend their evenings wasting decent drinking time by tasting
Drops of this and that and spitting it all out !
They wander round the tables, they even read the labels
Muttering things like "What a pity the cork has shrunk,"
"Fruity nose" or "too much tannin",
They ought to get a man in
Who'd appreciate the chance to get drunk.

They waste their time describing
What they ought to be imbibing
Which is wine of course although you'd never think it,
And they use words like "young but promising", "precocious", "full of fun",
You'd think they were going to adopt the stuff, not drink it,
And at a meal those silly asses
Have a row of empty glasses
A different wine for every dish they eat,
Me ? I mix whatever's handy in a stiff all-purpose shandy
That goes very nice with fish or shredded wheat.

(REFRAIN)

Then there are those who take delight
Pronouncing all the labels right
They roll their "R's" and do those German glottals.
Me ? I couldn't give a monkeys's
'Cos the stuff for getting drunk is on the
Inside not the outside of the bottle.
So when you have your cheese and wine, invite your friendly philistine
Call me drunkard, call me sot, or call me wino (what do I know)
You'll find me in the kitchen,
Giggling and twitchin'
Having a sup and throwing up across your lino

REFRAIN (altered)

You can gauge your wine by the quality of the wine ,
The colour and bouquet if you insist ...........
But it all comes back to the falling over factor
And the fact that it gets you .................
Misty- eyed and mellow................
Gets you maudlin, mawkish, miserable ..........
And PISSED!!

Murray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Wine Song
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 11:10 AM

That's the one ta much.