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02 Feb 11 - 11:09 AM (#3087284) Subject: Can anyone identify this song? From: jennyr My son (who's three) has come home from nursery humming a tune which I identify as 'Alice the Camel' - but he says it's not that. When I asked him what the words were, he said something that sounded like 'Cam by car stigger', and then 'Chug chug chug chug chugging along'. The only thing I can think of that might make sense is 'Combine Harvester', but that doesn't really help me much. Anyone have any idea what he might be talking about? |
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02 Feb 11 - 11:15 AM (#3087290) Subject: RE: Can anyone identify this song? From: Silas Only song I know with 'Combine Harvester' in the lyrics is the parody of Melanies 'Brand new pair of roller-skates', but I don't recall a Chug Chug etc. bit. |
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02 Feb 11 - 03:45 PM (#3087474) Subject: RE: Can anyone identify this song? From: jennyr Yes, that was the only one I could think of, too - but I sang it to him and he was very unimpressed! |
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02 Feb 11 - 03:49 PM (#3087476) Subject: RE: Can anyone identify this song? From: Cats Could be Tony Franklins The Higgler. Chorus is Jogging along jogging along jogging along with Harry o Never knew a pony go half as well as harry pots and pans paraffin cans tapping out their song I can hear the Higgler come a jog jog jogging along |
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02 Feb 11 - 04:07 PM (#3087482) Subject: RE: Can anyone identify this song? From: jennyr No, but we've found it! Big Red Combine Harvester, on 'It's Time to Fly' by Niki Davies. Hooray for google! |
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02 Feb 11 - 07:02 PM (#3087574) Subject: RE: Can anyone identify this song? From: Uncle Phil Alice the Camel Alice the camel has five humps. Alice the camel has five humps. Alice the camel has five humps. So go, Alice, go. Alice the camel has four humps. Alice the camel has four humps. Alice the camel has four humps. So go, Alice, go. Alice the camel has three humps. Alice the camel has three humps. Alice the camel has three humps. So go, Alice, go. Alice the camel has two humps. Alice the camel has two humps. Alice the camel has two humps. So go, Alice, go. Alice the camel has one hump. Alice the camel has one hump. Alice the camel has one hump. So go, Alice, go. Alice the camel has no humps. Alice the camel has no humps. Alice the camel has no humps. Cause Alice is a horse of course! As learned by my daughter at Happy House Nursery School more years ago than she will admit. - Phil |
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02 Feb 11 - 07:09 PM (#3087580) Subject: RE: Can anyone identify this song?-chugging along From: Joe Offer You can find all sorts of recordings of "Big Red Combine Harvester" at YouTube. If it's red, does that mean the manufacturer is International Harvester? Green is John Deere, Orange is Case. Anybody wanna post the words? -Joe- |
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02 Feb 11 - 07:20 PM (#3087586) Subject: Lyr Add: COMBINE HARVESTER (The Wurzels) From: Joe Offer Now, here's one that would be a big hit back home in rural Wisconsin (YouTube): COMBINE HARVESTER (BRAND NEW KEY) (Melanie Safka / Brendan O'Shaughnessy - - Parody of Melanie Safka's "Brand New Key") The Wurzels (vocal: Pete Budd) - 1976 I drove my tractor Through yur 'aystack last night (Ooh-arrhh, ooh-arrhh) I threw me pitchfork at yur dog To keep quiet (Ooh-arrhh, ooh-arrhh) Now somethin's tellin' me That you'm avoidin' me Come on now, darlin' You've got somethin' I need 'Cause I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Come on now let's get together In perfect harmony I got twenty acres An' you got forty-three Now I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key SPOKEN: She made I laugh, ha-ha I'll stick by you I'll give you all that you need We'll 'ave twins and triplets I'm a man built for speed And you know I'll love you, darlin' So give me yur hand But what I want the most Is all they acres of land 'Cause I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Come on now let's get together In perfect harmony I got twenty acres An' you got forty-three Now I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key SPOKEN: Ooh-aah, she's a lovely bit of stuff an' all For seven long years I've been alone in this place Eat, sleep, in the kitchen It's a proper disgrace Now if I cleaned it up Would you change your mind I'll give up drinkin' scrumpy And that lager and lime 'Cause I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Come on now let's get together In perfect harmony I got twenty acres An' you got forty-three Now I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key SPOKEN: Who loves ya, baby, ha Weren't we a grand couple At that last wurzel dance I wore brand new gaiters And me corduroy pants In your new Sunday dress With your perfume smellin' grand We had our photos took An' us holdin' hands Now I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key Now that we'me both past our fifties I think that you and me Should stop this galavanting And will you marry me 'Cause I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key SPOKEN: Aahh, yu're a fine lookin' woman and I can't wait to get me 'ands on yur land Source: http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/c/combineharvester.shtml Yeah, I know....it's been posted here before, but never in a thread with "combine harvester" in the title. -Joe- |
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03 Feb 11 - 09:26 AM (#3087850) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: Valmai Goodyear Alice the Camel Has One Hump has apparently been folk-processed by at least one infant into Alistair Campbell Has One Hump. Valmai (Lewes) |
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03 Feb 11 - 01:51 PM (#3087994) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: Lester Joe - If it's red and in the UK it is almost certainly a Massey Ferguson not International Harvester Signed A Sad Vintage Tractor Spotter |
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04 Feb 11 - 02:12 AM (#3088368) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: Joe Offer Hi, Lester- I come from Racine, Wisconsin. When I was growing up there in the late 1950s, J.I. Case was the one of the major employers in town. Massey Harris Ferguson also had a plant in Racine that produced red harvesting combines. I beg forgiveness for forgetting my roots. I should also call attention to the fact that Racine was the U.S. home of another brand you know in the UK - Horlick's Malted Milk. -Joe- |
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04 Feb 11 - 09:29 AM (#3088545) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: gnomad So, Lester, what colour were the IH that were sold in the UK from about 1950 through to mid 80s? My memory is not what it was (at least I don't think it is) but it keeps bringing up a picture of red machines and I remember the name from childhood outings in E.Yorks or N.Lincs. The other name that keeps recurring is New Holland, but that doesn't come with a mental picture. The only relevant video I own has a red combine, but as you predicted this was a Massey Ferguson. There is also some poor footage of a rather nasty pale-khaki job with red header, I can't make out the logo, but it doesn't look right for the IH badge. I did a quick Google, & learned that IH were made in the old Jowett works at Idle for nearly 30 years, and that the Doncaster works actually exported some parts for American-built machines. Pictures show a multitude of different machines in various shades. Just for Joe here's the cover of the Wurzels' song he posted above, complete with red combine. |
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04 Feb 11 - 12:31 PM (#3088661) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: GUEST,leeneia I live four blocks from Kansas, with its huge crops of wheat and maize. And we don't hear about combine harvesters, we hear about Harvester combines. A combine is a complex harvesting machine which does many tasks. (I'm pretty sure they are used only for wheat, but I could be wrong.) A Harvester combine is a combine made by International Harvester, a corporation. Makes me wonder if the people who produced that parody had ever met an actual farmer. |
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04 Feb 11 - 02:21 PM (#3088731) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: Lester @gnomad - sorry could have worded it better, what I meant was that in the UK it was far more likely to be a MF rather than and IH as the MF were UK made and therefore not as costly as the IH imports. @leeneia - in the UK the term combine harvester is used for a machine that cuts any cereal crop and separates the grain from the straw/chaff which exits the rear of the machine. Wikipedia Sorry, as stated above I'm a sad agricultural machine spotter |
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05 Feb 11 - 06:06 AM (#3089081) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: Mr Red Mr Mondegreen has visited the school - methinks. |
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05 Feb 11 - 06:23 AM (#3089088) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: gnomad Not a bother Lester, you just got me wondering, on an otherwise rather dull day. I always liked harvest time, but it is a fair way off right now. |
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05 Feb 11 - 02:51 PM (#3089339) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: GUEST,leeneia Okay, Lester. I stand corrected. If this is a British Isles song, why is he after her acres rather than her hectares? |
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05 Feb 11 - 03:58 PM (#3089376) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: GUEST, topsie Hectares are newcomers - upstarts from the continent. We've had rolling acres for centuries. |
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05 Feb 11 - 04:08 PM (#3089382) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: GUEST, topsie Rumour has it that an acre was originally the amount of land that could be ploughed by one man and one ox in a day. This resulted in some variation as some acres were easier to plough than others. |
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05 Feb 11 - 04:20 PM (#3089396) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: The Fooles Troupe So having ploughed his field for a day, the farmer would say, "That was a real acher!" I'll get me hat .... |
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05 Feb 11 - 04:45 PM (#3089417) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: GUEST,SRD Quote: So having ploughed his field for a day, the farmer would say, "That was a real acher!" I'll get me hat .... For one moment I thought you said Archer. |
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05 Feb 11 - 04:50 PM (#3089420) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: Lester As we all, well those of a certain age, remember an acre (4840 sq yds) is a chain (22 yds) by a furlong (220 yds). Or 40 rods/poles/perches by 4 rods/poles/perches(1 rods/poles/perchesbeing 5.5yds). |
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05 Feb 11 - 05:58 PM (#3089449) Subject: RE: identify this song?- Big Red Combine Harvester From: GUEST,leeneia and 640 acres = one square mile. A number chosen, I'm sure, because it's so handy to divvy up. You got your square mile, your 320, your 160, your 80, your 40, your 20-acre ranchette, your 10-acre 'nice place in the country,' your 4-acre prestige homesite, you one-acre lot... And then there's my place. Big enough for a bungalow, one tree, and a few tomatoes. |