Lyr Req:Oh ye cannae shove yer grannie aff the bus

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu
From: Deckman
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 08:59 PM

I first heard this song on Sandy Paton's first record, in the fifties. The one where he's wearing all the hats and doesn't like to be reminded of it! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu
From: Kitty
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 08:35 PM

Any time!! It will be one I foist upon family members when they least expect it....
Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu
From: Joybell
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 08:32 PM

Yes, Kitty, me too. I think I might teach my granddaughter this one. I'd forgotten about it. Thanks for reminding us. Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 08:25 PM

Kitty-

Isn't wonderful that there are other people in the world who love this kind of song as well?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 07:57 PM

Pretty well known; but do bear in mind that there are likely to be spelling variations, particularly when Scottish song texts are posted here by people unfamiliar with the idiom, and who often have quite odd ideas about the appropriate spelling and grammar. And, of course, Scottish vernacular orthography varies a lot more than does Standard English of either the UK or American varieties.

There are two files in the DT:

YE CANNA SHOVE YER GRANNY (deleted-duplicate)
YE CANNA SHOVE YER GRANNIE

They are identical but for the spelling of "grannie / granny", and the fact that one has a link to a tune. Both were harvested (presumably by different people) from the same original text, which as it happens was supplied by someone who is very familiar with Scottish forms. The problem seems to be that the original was two separate texts, from different (print) sources, with "Granny" spelled differently in each; in the DT file they are combined as if they were a single song, though the footnotes clearly distinguish between them.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu
From: Compton
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 07:39 PM

Scottish kids song??

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 07:34 PM

'Ye Canna Shove Your Grannie' - In the D T with several verses Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu
From: Compton
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 07:29 PM

Kitty, try a scottish song..but I think, "you cannae SHOVE your granny off a bus !!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: You canna throw your grannie from the bu
From: Kitty
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 07:29 PM

Did I use the wrong prefix? Probably should have used Lyr Req... Sorry Still new at this.

Subject: Lyr Add: You canna throw your granny off the bu
From: Kitty
Date: 05 Sep 04 - 07:27 PM

From the dept of wierd lyrics: anyone have lyrics to this? I have a verse, but not more than that:
to the tune of She'll be comin round the mountain..."
You canna throw your granny off the bus,
You canna throw your granny off the bus
You canna throw your granny
Cause she is your mammy's mammy
You canna throw your granny off the bus.

Any other verses? I love intelligent songs like this
k