Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 02 May 23 - 11:10 AM

Sorry Vectis, but I've never sung it....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: GUEST,vectis
Date: 28 Apr 23 - 08:35 PM

Kitty Vernon sings it, or at least, she used to.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 22 Apr 23 - 11:48 AM

Charmion, did it not also turn up in the /Oxford Companion to the Lore and Language of School Children/?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: Charmion
Date: 21 Apr 23 - 02:00 PM

I first saw it in a Punch annual (Pick of Punch) from the early 1950s. I’ll look for it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 23 - 12:33 PM

I know the Rod Derrett song but I heard it well before 1960 at a Youth Club concert organised by my father, and with different words. Unless he wrote it himself, which is possible as he co-wrote a panto every year, he clearly got it from somewhere but nobody can tell me where. Good luck!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 12:47 PM

There was a poem called "Goldilocks and the Three Teddyboys" written by Dubliner Luke Cheevers some years ago (late 1990s). Might that be it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 09:11 AM

Duh!

I never knew it was The Teddy Boy's pinic!

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 04:33 AM

Didn't Fred Wedlock sing it??? (Probably claimed to have written it too, or at best, not credited it's authorship).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: GUEST,Vin
Date: 02 Dec 21 - 11:43 AM

The only part of it I remember is: "Don't bother to wash, it's sure to rain, but bring your cosh and bicycle chain". I don't recall hearing it sung, but I think it was printed in "The Eagle" comic.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 01:09 PM

Thank you all, The rest I can remember.

The song was very derogatory to Teddy Boys, who were smarter in clobber than the average teen, even the law were jealous of our clothes.

Hence the bad name given unfairly.

But the song was brilliant.

The suits etc cost on average more than my old man earned in a week.

Thankyou once again.

Ex Teddy Boy with the same haircut and DA

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: GUEST,www.corroon-portraits.com
Date: 07 Feb 06 - 01:24 PM

I suspect that bbc records (cant spell arcives) will have this on record worth a try

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: Benjamin Bodhránaí
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 09:42 AM

the strangest thing, I was waiting for a meeting and decided to browse a Sanity store. They have 3 set compilations of music that never gets anywhere else. There was one called "Great Oz Rock". I hesitated, then decided to see who they included, and it was Jimmy and the Boys, and TBs Picnic wass there, and....


It's not the song!!!! (It actually sounds a bit Adam and the Antsish - similar story - but not it!!!)


And so I continue the search.

BB

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 05:32 PM

If you go down in the woods today
You'd better go in disguise
In drainpipe trews and high coloured shoes
And something intense in ties
No need to wash its going to rain
Just take your cosh and your bicycle chain
Todays the day the teddy boys have their picnic

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: Benjamin Bodhránaí
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 04:48 PM

Thanks all, sorry it took so long to get back, things all a bit hectic

BB

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 09:53 AM

Jimmy etc seem to be an off-the-wall Oz group. There is a MIDI file in the Google results but the usual tune only. Can't see any words anywhere.

RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: MMario
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 09:41 AM

Found this qoute on the web:

If you go down to the woods today
You'd better go in disguise
With stovepipe trews and fancy shoes
And something intense in ties.

rconrded by Jimmy and the Lost Boys?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 09:33 AM

I've just checked the 4-CD Celebration of Sellars set: it isn't on there. But it does sound like him.

RtS

Subject: Lyr Req: Teddyboy's Picnic
From: Benjamin Bodhránaí
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 12:43 AM

This would almost be folk music now!!

There is a parody song of The Teddybear's Picnic called The Teddyboy's Picnic.

Some possible lyrics are:

No need to wash, it looks like rain
So bring your cosh and bicycle chain
Today's the day the Teddyboy's have their picnic

It is possible that Peter Sellers wrote or sang it, but I can find no reference anywhere.

Anyone have any ideas or indeed the full lyrics?

Regards

BB