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Subject: Messing about with your liver From: Sooz Date: 01 Aug 02 - 05:16 AM Anyone know the words to this parody of Messing about on the river? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Skipjack K8 Date: 01 Aug 02 - 07:54 AM George Best? Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Sooz Date: 01 Aug 02 - 08:17 AM HoHo |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Joan from Wigan Date: 01 Aug 02 - 01:09 PM This parody was requested in a previous thread: messing about on the river but all the info gleaned then was that the parody was sung by Hamish Imlach and contained the line "There's nothing so fine as a wee glass of wine for messing about with your liver". A Google search only came up with that previous Mudcat thread. Joan |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: GUEST Date: 02 Aug 02 - 01:48 AM Shurly, there MUST be something MORE!!
It should have been Sinatra's theame song. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Sooz Date: 02 Aug 02 - 04:12 AM Its enough to turn me to drink! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: ozmacca Date: 02 Aug 02 - 06:19 AM I was going to make a pithy comment, but then I changed my mind. I just kidney be bothered...... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar Date: 02 Aug 02 - 06:24 AM Mind you, there may not have been a whole song, only that line!! I am unsure. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Sooz Date: 02 Aug 02 - 07:00 AM I vaguely remember the chorus being lots of names of beers - something like "There's Whitbread and Watneys and Worthington E..........I'm sure you'll agree, There's nothing so fine as a bottle of wine for messing about with your liver" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Sooz Date: 03 Aug 02 - 07:59 AM Still hopefull! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Joan from Wigan Date: 03 Aug 02 - 01:37 PM Just a thought. As Hamish Imlach was said to have sung the song, he may well have recorded it. He did an album called "Ballads of Booze", which I haven't got, and can't find a track listing on line, but it seems a likely candidate for the song to be on. Does anyone have the track listing? Joan |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Sooz Date: 03 Aug 02 - 03:35 PM Well? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Susanne (skw) Date: 03 Aug 02 - 05:54 PM It isn't on 'Ballads of Booze' nor on any of the other half dozen Hamish albums I've got. I've got a vague memory of hearing him sing it, but either it fitted him so well that it's a sort of false memory syndrome on my part, or else he may have used it for sound checks, and I only heard the couple of lines he sang for that. Sorry to be of no help! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Barry Finn Date: 04 Aug 02 - 09:47 AM Anyone got any other liver songs? It be interesting if not healthful? Or for that matter any transplant songs? Maybe it's a not to folkie topic even though there is blood shed, sex could be a factor, drink(?) & many of the other great qualities of the normal folk song/ballad. Barry |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Jim McLean Date: 04 Aug 02 - 10:32 AM In 1972 I wrote a set of lyrics to Messing about on the River for the Upper Clyde Ship Builders support LP, Unity Creates Strength. It was an attack on Ted heath and his mob and is quite dated now. If anyone wants it I'll get it off the album. It was sung by Alastair McDonald. Cheers, Jim Mclean |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Joan from Wigan Date: 04 Aug 02 - 01:26 PM A Google search for "liver lyrics" throws up 15,900 hits, including such delicious-sounding songs as "Always Hug Your Liver", "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", "Take Me To The Liver", "Fifty Ways to Love Your Liver"... Joan |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Susanne (skw) Date: 04 Aug 02 - 04:12 PM Jim, I've just been looking at the album again and realised there were a few of your songs on it. I'd love to get the lyrics, but there's no hurry! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Jim McLean Date: 04 Aug 02 - 05:30 PM OK Susanne, we've just got a new puppy so when I recover from a few sleepless nights I'll post the lyrics. By the way did you get my email of last week? I've been away for a few days. Jim McLean |
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Subject: Lyr Add: COWES CAPERS and HEAD TEETH (Jim McLean) From: Jim McLean Date: 05 Aug 02 - 05:35 PM Hi susanne, I'm still up with the puppy so here goes. Title: COWES CAPERS Melody MESSING ABOUT ON THE RIVER Lyrics: Jim McLean Don't forget I did say the lyrics were dated and specifically written in 1972 to celebrate the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work in. It's great whit ye hear, When drinkin yer beer, O' things that go on in the Channel. Ted Heath has been seen, (Ye know whit Ah mean) Just messin' aboot in the Channel. When sailin' yer boatie aroon aboot Cowes, They say that it's no' safe tae lean ower the bowes. Just zip up yer mac, An' don't turn yer back' When messin' aboot in the Channel.
They don't talk aloud,
I've heard it's been said, Another song on the same LP, for the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work in, I wrote to the tune of CASEY JONES: Title: HEAD TEETH Lyrics Jim Mclean The workers in the UCS were told they had to go, But they began to organize and told the Tories "No! It's you'll who'll be amoving 'cause you got us in this mess, Now you're going to get the Message from the UCS"
CHORUS:
So Edward said to Davis " You go up to see the men,
CHORUS: Edward Heath ...
When Davis got to London, someone said that Ted was lost,
FINAL CHORUS: Edward Heath .... Both were sung admirably by Alastair McDonald. Jim McLean
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Susanne (skw) Date: 05 Aug 02 - 08:11 PM Thanks a lot, Jim! And give my love to the puppy! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Oct 02 - 02:00 PM I heard somebody sing this parody while I was in England, but I can't remember who sang it (maybe I was messing about with my liver...). Dave Bryant? IanC? Did either of you sing this? Geoff the Duck? Mrs. Duck? Who else would be a likely suspect? Micca denies it. I asked him first. -Joe Offer, stone cold sober- |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MESSING ABOUT WITH YOUR LIVER From: Leadfingers Date: 04 Oct 02 - 07:57 PM Try this-I got this from someone at the old Handsome Mouldiworp-Can't remember who now , its along time ago. MESSING ABOUT WITH YOUR LIVER We surgeons have fun when our days work is done Just messing about with your liver When we're tired or we're bored we go out on the ward And start messing about with your liver We pour nitric acid all over your spleen In mild fascination we watch it turn green And if we're ever in doubt we just pull something out While we're messing About with Your Liver I have a large knife which I use on the wife While I'm messing about with her liver And I practice at night when I've turned out the light Just messing about with her liver My first experiments went rather well But I've noticed just lately she's started to smell And I' not heard her laught since I used her best scarf To block uo the hole in her liver Now one man I know used an old garden hoe For messing about with your liver Another great man used an electric fan Set the patients intestines a-quiver Transplant rejections no problem these days We simply remove and omit to replace So whatever you've wrong,we'll make worse before long When we're messing about with your liver. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Oct 02 - 11:19 PM I'm truly disappointed. I thought for sure somebody would be able to post these lyrics. Micca failed me. Dave Bryant failed me. Come on, now. England, come help us in our time of need!!! -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Gurney Date: 12 Oct 02 - 02:45 AM Can't help with the song, but Barry Finn wanted 'liver' songs so try 'On a Monday Morning.' You need to hear someone sing it for the savour, though. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: ced2 Date: 12 Oct 02 - 05:07 AM When I work out how to download this little ditty (wot I wrote) I will post it, but my brain does not seem to get round the computer as it does when stringing words together (any simple advice??). Joe Offer was right, he heard it in the rear room of the Tap & Spile in Whitby on the Wednesday night of Whitby week. I sang(?) it then. Clearly, he like most other had been indulging in M.A.W.Y.L. Cedric |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Herga Kitty Date: 12 Oct 02 - 06:57 AM Cedric Now that Mudcat has been upgraded to insert automatic line breaks, you should be able to just select the text you want to copy from your existing on-line copy, and paste it here from the clipboard - and you can preview it before sending. Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Salty reel Date: 12 Oct 02 - 09:27 AM I went to see the Bumpstead Boys and Beryl recently, a group of entertainers in Suffolk, and one of them sang Messing about with your Liver, a complete song about the demon drink, and drunks, and pub singers. Today is the first time i've read this thread so it jogged my memory. As for the words, sorry, no chance after only hearing them once. They seemed to be quite well known so maybe someone else will know who the singer is. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: ced2 Date: 12 Oct 02 - 10:17 AM Still unclear, basically I have a set of words, with correct layout in "Word". Without having to retype them is there a simple way of getting them into the system? If so what is it? Or do I haver to re-type them? cedric |
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Subject: Copy-pasting lyrics into Mudcat From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Oct 02 - 10:45 AM Hi, Cedric - if you have both this page and Word open, it's easy. Highlight the lyrics in Word so that they change color. Then, copy them (use [CTRL-C] or the "edit" menu in Word) Then go to the Mudcat "Reply to thread" box and make sure your cursor is blinking in the box. Paste [CTRL-V]the words into the box, tidy them up if they need tidying, and hit the "submit" button. If you're unsure, check the "preview" box so you can see what you've done. Give it a try - I want to see that song. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MESSING ABOUT WITH YOUR LIVER (C Binns) From: ced2 Date: 12 Oct 02 - 11:35 AM MESSING ABOUT WITH YOUR LIVER (Cedric Binns) There's whiskey or wine, or vodka is fine, for Messing About With Your Liver, You can even try hops, or the new alcho pops, for M.A.W.Y.L., There's ale of all sorts, there's porter and stout, There's lager and cider, they're all good no doubt, But stay off the gin, it will lead to ruin, when you're M.A.W.Y.L. Cerebral pastimes, are far too refined, when you're M.A.W.Y.L., The dots on the doms, become ill-defined, when you're M.A.W.Y.L. The rings on the dartboard, dance up and down, The balls on the pool table spin round and round, If you take my advice don't bet on your hand, when you're M.A.W.Y.L. Your vision gets blurred, and your speech may be slurred, whilst M.A.W.Y.L., The road may zig zag, you'll have to blow in the bag, through M.A.W.Y.L., Excuse me says the copper, but you've told a whopper, Eight pints at least, you've had with your feast, Spend the night in our cell, we'll take your car as well, no more M.A.W.Y.L. The OH radical, may bring ridicule, whilst M.A.W.Y.L., The gaseous ethane, changes to ethanol, for M.A.W.Y.L., If you light your methane it'll blow off your head, An excess of methanol will soon leave you dead. C2H5(OH), will suit you just fine, for M.A.W.Y.L., If you drink strong ale, you'll never get stale, whilst M.A.W.Y.L. Its laxative properties, will put you at ease, whilst M.A.W.Y.L. With bowels in overdrive, don't get taken short, Long meetings or car trips are bound to be fraught, You'll get a rebuke, if you have to puke, through M.A.W.Y.L. If you drink too much soup, you'll need a counselling group, through M.A.W.Y.L., You'll feel in a mess, when you have to confess, to M.A.W.Y.L., The parson, the doctor, the nurse and the beak, All sit there stony-faced, your salvation to seek, But there's none can deny, they've all had a try, at M.A.W. their Livers. © Cedric Binns 6/2001 |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Sooz Date: 12 Oct 02 - 12:45 PM At last! Thats the closest we've got. I'd still like to get hold of the 1960's version though. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: ced2 Date: 12 Oct 02 - 01:06 PM I was never aware that there was a 1960's version and to the best of my knowledge the bag refered to in verse 3 did not arrive until the breathaliser tests in the 70's, alcho pops were not around until the 90's and pool was not being commonly played in UK pubs until the mid to late 70's I think . My next door neighbour, himself an ex-professional musician, approached me in the garden one day in June 2001. "I've got this idea for a song, it's been going around in my head for about 10 years and I'm not getting anywhere with it. I've just got a few words." He said. The words in question was very similar to the first couple of lines of the last verse. Having been set the challenge I couldn't resist. So unless my mate Peter is pulling a fast one, he gave me an idea for a song wot I then rote! Thanks Peter! It rarely fails to stop the pub!!! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Oct 02 - 01:21 PM I heard a version very similar to this way back in 1982, again before alcopops - I suspect that is a modern addition. I'm not saying you didn't write this one Ced, it's just that I did hear a song very similar to it in 1982. LTS |
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Subject: LYRICS ADD: Messing About With Your Live From: ced2 Date: 20 Jan 03 - 01:05 PM MESSING ABOUT WITH YOUR LIVER (Cedric Binns) There's whiskey or wine, or vodka is fine, for Messing About With Your Liver, You can even try hops, or the new alcho pops, for M.A.W.Y.L., There's ale of all sorts, there's porter and stout, There's lager and cider, they're all good no doubt, But stay off the gin, it will lead to ruin, when you're M.A.W.Y.L. Cerebral pastimes, are far too refined, when you're M.A.W.Y.L., The dots on the doms, become ill-defined, when you're M.A.W.Y.L. The rings on the dartboard, dance up and down, The balls on the pool table spin round and round, If you take my advice don't bet on your hand, when you're M.A.W.Y.L. Your vision gets blurred, and your speech may be slurred, whilst M.A.W.Y.L., The road may zig zag, you'll have to blow in the bag, through M.A.W.Y.L., Excuse me says the copper, but you've told a whopper, Eight pints at least, you have had with your feast, Spend the night in our cell, we'll take your car as well, no more M.A.W.Y.L. The OH radical, may lead to ridicule, whilst M.A.W.Y.L., The gaseous ethane, changes to ethanol, for M.A.W.Y.L., But don't light your methane it'll blow off your head, An excess of methanol will soon leave you dead. C2-H5-(OH), will suit you just fine, for M.A.W.Y.L., If you drink strong ale, you'll never get stale, whilst M.A.W.Y.L. Its laxative properties, will put you at ease, whilst M.A.W.Y.L. With bowels in overdrive, don't get taken short, Long meetings or car trips are bound to be fraught, You'll get a rebuke, if you have to puke, through M.A.W.Y.L. If you drink too much soup, you'll need a counselling group, through M.A.W.Y.L., You'll feel in a mess, when you have to confess, to M.A.W.Y.L., The parson, the doctor, the nurse and the beak, All sit there stony-faced, your salvation to seek, But there's none can deny, they've all had a try, at M.A.W. Their Livers. CB (I thought that I had done the necessary to add this to the thread when this title was requested a few moths ago, clearly not! Must have been MABWMyL.) |
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Subject: RE: LYRICS ADD: Messing About With Your Live From: Sooz Date: 20 Jan 03 - 03:26 PM Brill - at last |
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Subject: RE: LYRICS ADD: Messing About With Your Live From: Sooz Date: 20 Jan 03 - 03:29 PM Ooops - mean't to say thanks! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Messing About With Your Liver From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Jan 03 - 03:07 PM Dedicated to Brian Clough who is now messing about with a new liver? Oddly enough, Liver and bacon was on the menu today at work... I went vegetarian, just in case.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: Nigel Parsons Date: 21 Jan 03 - 06:00 PM Clarification (if required) that there was a song with some of these lyrics extant prior to June 2001 can be found in a posting dated 30 Sept 1998 in the thread messing about on the river "From: Ewan McV - PM Date: 30 Sep 98 - 06:46 PM My word, how life comes back to get you. The song was written by Tony Hatch, and recorded by a mate of mine, Josh Macrae, in about 1962. I regret I don't have the words available, nor of the parody I recall sung by Hamish Imlach : There's nothing so fine as a wee glass of wine for messing about with your liver. So I suppose I'm not much use to you. But thanks for the memory! " Nigel |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing about with your liver From: GUEST Date: 20 Sep 04 - 06:32 PM |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing About with Your Liver From: davidharley Date: 16 Jul 23 - 08:46 PM The version Leadfingers posted ("we surgeons have fun...") is very close to the one I used to do, and I lived in Bracknell, so he might have got it from me. However, I'm pretty sure I got it from Alan Holdsworth when I lived in Manchester. I've messaged Alan to see if he can cast light. A bit late in the day, I know, but I suddenly remembered the song today after several years of repression, and found this thread... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Messing About with Your Liver From: davidharley Date: 16 Jul 23 - 08:53 PM Got an answer from Alan Holdsworth. He says that the "we surgeons have fun" version is from Tom Lehrer. |
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