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05 Jun 22 - 05:02 PM (#4143404) Subject: Origins: Hurdy Gurdy Flowers in Still Game From: GUEST,SUSANMACKENZIE We enjoy a Scottish comedy on Netflix entitled "Still Game." The character Jack often sings to himself "Hurdy Gurdy Flowers in the windae boxes." It is an ironic note, as his character goes from a well cultivated cottage yard with window boxes, to the imposing and impersonal facade of flat windows in the Osprey Heights towers. Some online discussion includes mentions of grandparents singing the song, but I find nothing much about it. |
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05 Jun 22 - 05:45 PM (#4143405) Subject: RE: Origins: Hurdy Gurdy Flowers in Still Game From: Helen Hi Susan, Could you give us some of the lyrics please? I found a video of some of the songs: Still Game songs |
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21 Feb 23 - 08:05 AM (#4165735) Subject: RE: Origins: Hurdy Gurdy Flowers in Still Game From: GUEST Thanks |
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21 Feb 23 - 02:12 PM (#4165766) Subject: RE: Origins: Hurdy Gurdy Flowers in Still Game From: Gallus Moll Think these sa songs are from Chewin' the Fat*, a comedy sketch show that predated Still Game? (*had the Lighthouse Keepers and many others in it!!!!) |
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21 Feb 23 - 04:26 PM (#4165775) Subject: RE: Origins: Hurdy Gurdy Flowers in Still Game From: GUEST,RA I found this on a Reddit post by someone called Redbeardidscotsman: "Hurdy Gurdy is an old Glasgow song which came about after the building of the blocks of flats that replaced the slums. Hurdy Gurdy was the wind blowing in the window boxes as they no longer had gardens. There's a few other songs along these lines, I'm sure there's one that goes "ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty storey flat". The latter song mentioned is, as all Glaswegians ought to know, Adam McNaughtan's 'Skyscraper Wean'.
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