Lyr Req: While sheepdogs watch their...(Les Barker

Subject: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 09:45 AM

Anyone got the lyrics for this or any other funny Xmas songs please.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch the
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 06:31 PM

You might try the CD "Bah! Humbug!" Some good, funny stuff there.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch the
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 07:35 PM

Arrest These Merry Gentleman by Sid Kipper is my favourite

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 07:49 PM

any werds, morty??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch the
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 08:23 PM

These are the track listings, Mr H.....best buy the album for the words, I hear Chris could use a few bob:

Arrest These Merry Gentlemen
1. Arrest These Merry Gentlemen
2. Thanks A Lot, God
3. Northrepps Twelfth Night Song
4. The Awful Story Of Black Shag
5. Oh Little Town Of Gimingham
6. The Roots Of The Blues
7. Anna Ingram's Sister
8. Ring Out Wild Jingle Bells
9. Awayday
10. I Know What I Believe
11. That Was Christmas Eve
12. The Disabled Seaman
13. Underwood's Milk
14. The Ivy And The Holly
15. The Trunch A To Z
16. Christmas Collapso
17. We Wish You A Merry Xmas

try here for all things Kipper

http://www.sidkipper.co.uk/

Subject: Lyr Add: CHRISTMAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED (P Mortimer)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 09:55 PM

An Ozzie favourite for you -

"Christmas has been cancelled" by Paul Mortimer
(Tune: Lili Marlene)

Christmas has been cancelled,
Santa Claus is dead.
When the scandal broke
He put a bullet through his head.
Pinned to his chest they found a note
Admitting what - the papers wrote:
That he was on the payroll
Of Toltoys and K-tel.

It was bigger still than Lockheed
Worse than Watergate.
Kids throughout the world
Called for his head upon a plate
The myth was destroyed and in its wake,
Old Santy stood there a callous fake.
And evidence is mounting
That he was C.I.A.

The Church it tried to brand him
A charlatan and worse.
The Pope said 'Keep off Christmas, mate,
We used that number first,
As a time when all good Christians sing
Of Jesus Christ and cribs and things.
Of course it's only bulldust
To get the faithful in.'

Further allegations
Have made the papers wail,
That Santa's love for children
Was way beyond the pale,
He always liked to give out toys
To little girls and little boys.
It seems that he was harmless
But some don't understand.

Well we can still be jolly
And celebrate New Year,
And we'll be nice to other folks
More than once a year.
With no tinsel trees or plastic snow
Or jingle bells or yo ho ho's.
And no more f***ing reindeer
Or little drummer boys.

Repeat first verse.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: Effsee
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 09:59 PM

The "Bah, Humbug" CD is available through    www.greentrx.com    BTW.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch the
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 09:59 PM

Both "Arrest These Merry Gentlemen" and "Bah! Humbug!" are also available at CAMSCO. Along with everything else.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 06:26 PM

this is not nice

Mrs santa

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 05:27 AM

That's rich Mrs Santa, according to His Worship and the Pig, you clearded off with Jason from Toys R Us and at present are residing in a maisonette in Milton Keynes

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 10:03 AM

Lies, half-truths and propaganda, raggytash. You have been victimized by the tabloids.

Mrs. Santa is in that snug cottage at the North Pole, making cocoa for Santa and the elves at this very moment.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 10:21 AM

'fraid not Leeneia, Christmas will be cancelled this year Santa has actually has said


So don't leave a stocking on the mantle shelf
don't leave a treat for Rudolf and myself
stuff the Christmas turkey and sod the Christmas fuss
Mary's gone and left for the man from Toys R Us

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: While sheepdogs watch their...(Les Barker
From: GUEST,Stafford
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 09:12 AM

I came here to find the lyrics which I learnt 30 years ago then forgot.
They weren't here so I've had to remember them.



While Shepherds Washed their socks by night
All seated on the ground
The sheepdogs asked for Christmas off
Or double time all round

For double time we'll guard your flocks
We'll fight the wily fox
Throw in an extra couple of Bob
We'll even wash your socks

And Lo that night was Christmas Eve
A star shone in the East
The Angel of the Lord came down
With sixteen pairs at least

The Angels got their laundry done
Untouched by human hand
They paid the dogs in garden peas
All fresh and newly canned.

This evening when you go to bed
Remember your dogs worth
Not only do they guard your flocks
They brought you Peas On Earth

Subject: ADD: Lyr Req: While sheepdogs watch their...(Les B
From: GUEST,Stafford
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 10:06 AM

See my previous reply for the full lyrics
I hadn't read The FAQ then.
The title is actually
"While Shepherds Washed their socks by night"

It's a poem by Les Barker
I learnt it in the 1980s.
It can be sung to the usual church tune of "While Shepherds watched ......."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: While sheepdogs watch their...(Les Barker
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 10:58 AM

My personal favourite is ' Hey Santa Claus ' by the Australian National treasure, Kevin ' Bloody ' Wilson.

Dave H