Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)

Subject: Lyr Add: LITTLE TOURISTS (Little Boxes parody)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 03:20 PM

Whitsun weekend 1964, The Oasis Cafe in Weston-Super-Mare, weather absolutely atrocious. One of the lads said "Look at the stoopid tourists walking round in the rain! Someone should write a song about them!" Just then, the juke box burst into life with Pete Seeger singing LITTLE BOXES (The Oasis had a GOOD assortment on the box). That was the birth of this gem!

Little tourists, little tourists, and they're all in their mini cars
All in their Pacamacs with their buckets and spades,
There's a tall one, a short one, a fat one and a thin one,
And they're all eating Fish and Chips and they all look the same.

And they've travelled from Bristol and Birmingham and Liverpool,
And they all drag their kids along and sit on the beach,
And it rains and it pours and the sky falls on top of them,
But they all eat their candy floss and sit there just the same.

And father gets a deckchair and lies under his Daily Sketch,
While their transistor radios stay switched on all day,
While their twelve year old daughter seduces the beach photographer,
And Granny drinks her cups of tea and rots there just the same.

Then they go on the pier and fill up the slot machines,
And have rides on the roundabouts and donkeys and trains,
Then they jump in their cars and cause an eighteen mile traffic jam.
It happens every year, but they come back just the same.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 03:46 PM

Wunnerful!!!
(was I that bad???)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 04:23 PM

No Sorch - YOU werent walking round in a pacamac in pouring rain eating Candy Floss !!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: GUEST,The Vulgar Boatman
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 03:07 AM

Try also "Little bathtubs in marinas..." well observed skit on the yachtie crowd, and one for the sportsmen:

Little boxes in the sports shop,
Little boxes made for cricketers,
And you shove them down your trousers
To protect you in the game,
There's a white one and a pink one,
And one made of aluminium,
But if you get hit in the...boxes,
It'll hurt you all the same.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: Haruo
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 03:32 AM

Leadfingers, what's the missing portion of the first line? Mrs Haruo and I can't figure out how to get the thing into the tune.

Haruo

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 07:09 AM

OOOOPS !! Sorry Haruo ! TOTAL Brain fade on typing the first line !

Little Tourists little tourists and they're all in their mini cars !!

Abject apologies all round !!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 07:14 AM

Just tried to get in to 'Help' to try to get that line corrected and couldnt access 'help' Is it possible for a MudElf to do the correction ??

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: Haruo
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 03:45 PM

Well, it's not corrected yet, but thanks, Leadfingers. Mrs Haruo and I shall take it to a song circle one day soon.

Haruo

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 03:52 PM

I had thought of another Little Boxes parody, sorry for the thread creep:

Little Dachshunds, on the hillside,
Little Dachshunds going yippy yappy,
Little dachshunds on the hillside,
And they all look just the same.
There's a brown one, and a brown one, and brown one,
and a brown one.
And they're all going yippy yappy and they all look just the same.

I know that dachshunds come in other colors. But I mostly see brown ones.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: Tig
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 04:22 PM

Ta Lead. It's great!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 01:11 AM

And thank the gods for that, Lead, LOL!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Little Tourists (Little Boxes parody)
From: JesseW
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 02:33 AM

ROLFL!!! Why thank you all - these are GREAT! "and a brown one, and a brown one..." - I couldn't finish singing that without breaking up...

The tourist one has a very strong feel of personal expierence, and it's very good. I intend to memorize it.

*Please* make sure this gets properly linked into the DT.