Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup

Subject: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: GUEST,JonF
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 03:41 AM

My grandmother used to sing a song which began:
"Mulligatawny soup is nice"
but I can't remember anything else


My mother, who I think was messing around used to sing:

Mulligatawny soup is nice
Especially when it's mixed with amonia
Paddington baths, I learned to swim
On my back and sucking a peppermint.

Does anyone know the actual lyrics?

Jon

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 06:30 PM

I think this one needs to move back up to the top. I want to hear this song.
Refresh.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 09:19 PM

I looked both under soup and stew...nada.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: Snuffy
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 04:50 AM

I vaguely remember a British comedian (Richard Murdoch?) used to do nonsense patter-songs like this to well known tunes. I can hear the tune for this in my head, but can't identify it.

I googled for "Paddington baths", and "sucking a peppermint" but with no luck, I'm afraid

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 01:09 PM

My Dad always sings the verse about Paddington Baths, here's another one..

A Christmas pud is not the place to plant a begonia.

He says it was indeed from a radio show with Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne

Anyone know any more verses?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 01:35 PM

More Murdochery has:

  Mulligatawny soup is nice
  Especially when it's made with ammonia
  Isn't it strange
  A Christmas Pud
  Is never the place
  To plant a begonia?

apparently to a tune called Nola by Felix Arndt.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: Snuffy
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 03:34 AM

One verse started "Barrington Dalby said to me" and the next line may have been something like "The other day while sucking a peppermint"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: GUEST,Moonman Tony M.
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 09:29 AM

I remember it as follows, with bits missing, something like:

Tupenny pies at fourpence each
and twenty four for one-and-eleven-pence.
Seventy five at eight and six and
Ninety two for seven and sevenpence.

??????

Then I bought three ha'penny worth of horsemeat
A pot of raspberry jelly
Then stuffed it down inside of my kitbag.
and then... ///

???????

And that is thr end of my song and I think it's about time too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Aug 15 - 09:07 AM

She said she wasn't hungry but this is what she ate. She had some Mulligatawny soup a mackeral and a sole etc.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mulligatawny soup
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 06:47 AM

Mulligatawny soup is good especially when it's full of amonia
I've just found out that Christmas pud is not the place to plant a begonia.
.....
Once I took my mother to an ice show
It was quite a nice show
But she slipped and fell on her da da da