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Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today

03 Mar 21 - 03:23 AM (#4095778)
Subject: Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today
From: Andy Scarf

Following our combined success with the last thread, I'm encouraged to ask about words to the tune of La Donna E Mobile (aka she's texting someone else again):

Our fish are cheap today
Cheaper than yesterday
There will be less to pay
Than there was yesterday

Were there ever any more words?


03 Mar 21 - 08:09 AM (#4095823)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today
From: Steve Gardham

You might be better off trying the rugby songs books.

Our soles are....
Our souls are....
Arseholes are .....


03 Mar 21 - 08:13 AM (#4095826)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today
From: GUEST,#

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/our_souls_are_cheap_today_525749


03 Mar 21 - 08:13 AM (#4095827)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today
From: Steve Gardham

Wartime R.A.F.

Arseholes are cheap today
Cheaper than yesterday
Little boys are half a crown
Standing up or lying down.
Bigger boys are two and six
Larger ones are three and six
For they know better tricks
And one at five bob.

Some are wreathed in smiles
Others are sore with piles
The one for me
Is the one that's free.
Tally ho! tally ho!
What a lovely sight
Half a mo, half a mo,
While I have a shite!

(Well you asked!) Lots of variations.


04 Mar 21 - 02:43 AM (#4095956)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today
From: BobL

Woman is fickle,
Give her a tickle,
Hold her quite tightly,
Do it twice nightly
(Ken Dodd)


04 Mar 21 - 06:26 AM (#4095971)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today
From: Dave the Gnome

Ken Dodd also sang of the gretest gift he possesed. And it wasn't pronounced happiness :-D


04 Mar 21 - 07:39 AM (#4095980)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today
From: Jack Campin

"Arseholes are cheap today" is a spot-on evocation of Naples under the Allied occupation, as Malaparte described it in "The Skin" - every orifice in town was up for sale. Is that where it dates from?


06 Mar 21 - 10:26 PM (#4096414)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today
From: keberoxu

Where is Eliza/Senoufou?
I recall her quoting this on a different thread.


08 Mar 21 - 06:05 PM (#4096723)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Our fish are cheap today
From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar

Joe's fish are cheap today
Cheaper than yesterday
Big ones for two and six
Small ones for one and three
Co-me and bu-uy co-me and b-u-y

Except that we sang
Joe's cheeps are cheap today
which never made enough sense, far too expensive for chips, now I see we should have been buying fish - much more sensible.