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22 Jun 01 - 06:41 PM (#490028) Subject: cheese songs From: GUEST,ed silberman Hi folks I thought this might be fun. i was in a cheese shop where they had a cheese called Lincolnshire Poacher and I started to think about songs that have cheese in the title or in the lyrix and that it'd be fun to start a list of cheese songs. Right off the bat I thought of Les Barkers' "Hard Cheese of Old England" (of course!), "Here's to Cheshire, Here's to Cheese"(trad,Pete Seeger), "Butter and Cheese and All"(trad, Sam Larner), the "the cheese stands alone" verse to Farmer in the Dell(trad,Micheal Cooney), and a music-hally sort of thing I can only vaguly remember about "when the gorganzola cheese went wrong"(or some such). Let's see how a long a list we can make! Whenever possible, please indicate author or, if traditional, a singer associated with the song ( as I have done above) so that if people aren't familiar with a song you post they'll have a clue where to find it. Thank you. A second list could be of musical cheese puns: "What A Freind We Have in Cheeses" and "Am I Bleu" for starters. Have fun! Ed Silberman See The Aged Cheese (click), which probably shouldn't have been labeled a "BS" thread. -Joe Offer- |
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22 Jun 01 - 06:43 PM (#490031) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: mousethief Great idea, Ed, but you've completely exhausted my list of cheese songs, and then some. I hope some of the other 'Catters have some cheese songs! No wait -- does it have to be folk/trad? Jimmy Buffet has "Cheeseburger in Paradise"! Alex |
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22 Jun 01 - 06:47 PM (#490038) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Matt_R "Sweet Lady," from Queen's album A Night at The Opera contains the line "You call me up and treat me like a piece of cheese". |
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22 Jun 01 - 06:52 PM (#490047) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: mousethief Actually it's "You call me sweet like I'm some kind of cheese." You're really losing your touch, Matt! Then again, I've been singing this song since before you were born, you whippersnapper! Alex |
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22 Jun 01 - 07:02 PM (#490058) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Matt_R Ooooops! Well, it has been 3 years since I heard it. |
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22 Jun 01 - 07:18 PM (#490068) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Mountain Dog It's OK, Matt. Take satisfaction in the knowledge that your misquote, however cheesy it may have been, was at least well aged! |
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22 Jun 01 - 07:24 PM (#490071) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Matt_R "Join us, leave your cheese to sour, join us, leave your field to flower..." Stephen Schwatz, from "Magic To Do" from Pippin. |
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22 Jun 01 - 08:01 PM (#490088) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Allan C. Related Thread |
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22 Jun 01 - 08:08 PM (#490094) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Matt_R I've heard the band Vertical Horizon termed "cheese-rock". |
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22 Jun 01 - 08:12 PM (#490098) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Little Hawk How about "The Wabash Camembert"? - LH |
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22 Jun 01 - 08:14 PM (#490099) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: CarolC GUEST,ed silberman, you sound like my kind of guy. Type 'cheese' and 'weird al yankovic' into a google search engine. It's a gold mine of cheese references (a cheese mine of golden references?). |
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22 Jun 01 - 08:32 PM (#490111) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST Ed:
You forgot Gouda Night Irene. Bev and Jerry |
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22 Jun 01 - 09:00 PM (#490120) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Mountain Dog And that rousing old hymn, "Bringing in the Cheese"... |
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22 Jun 01 - 10:22 PM (#490129) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,Marymac90 Chicken Cordon Blues (bleu) by Steve Goodman... |
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22 Jun 01 - 11:23 PM (#490151) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca There's the "Anti-Chantey", aka "The Cheese Song", by Dave Stone. It's on his Cd, The Journey. The song lyrics are at The Anti-Chantey. Check it out. It's a chantey rhythm. Get the CD. The cheese shop should love it. |
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22 Jun 01 - 11:28 PM (#490156) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,Frogmore Hi Ho the derry-o. and..."Munchin' on a Cheesecake" - Louis Armstrong |
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23 Jun 01 - 12:11 AM (#490172) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Jim Dixon According to AMG - The All Music Guide: On John McCutcheon's 1983 album "Howjadoo," "Here's to Cheshire" is credited to somebody named "Howell." On Pete Seeger's 1994 album "For Kids and Just Plain Folks," "Here's to Cheshire, Here's to Cheese..." is credited to somebody named Haworth. Either way, it is apparently NOT traditional. By the way, I entered "cheese" into the DigiTrad Lyrics Search and came up with 67 hits. |
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23 Jun 01 - 12:23 AM (#490178) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: JennieG On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed...... Remember that parody of On Top Of Old Smokey? Cheers JennieG |
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23 Jun 01 - 12:44 AM (#490185) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Bert And his head was made of good green cheese, good green cheese, good green cheese, And his head was made of good green cheese, ANd his name was Aikey Drum. |
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23 Jun 01 - 01:33 AM (#490201) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,Frogmore Apple pie without cheese - is like a kiss without a squeeze. |
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23 Jun 01 - 03:04 AM (#490222) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,Les Jones, once of Ellesmere Port now of Man Here's to Cheshire, here's to Cheese was written by Leslie Howarth of Edisberry, Fruit Farm, Edisberry Cheshire. I think Leslie was a founder member of Manley Morrismen, his son Colin played flute with The Border Band and song at Jones's Ale ( no relation) singers club in Chester. Inevitablt the Spinnres sang it a lot |
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23 Jun 01 - 03:19 AM (#490225) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Don Firth If the moon were really made of green cheese, rockets would look like fondue forks. Don Firth |
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23 Jun 01 - 04:39 AM (#490234) Subject: ADD: Cheese & Beer & Snow (Berryman) From: Joe Offer Dang! Here I am from Wisconsin, and I can't think of any cheese songs. Ah, but being from Wisconsin, I know that I can depend on the Berrymans. Here's one from their new CD, House Concert. CHEESE & BEER & SNOW (Lou & Peter Berryman, 2000) Lunch & cheese & dinner & cheese Fall & cheese & winter & cheese Chips & cheese & jerky & cheese Nuts & cheese & turkey & cheese Cheese with pies & peppers & peas Snow & beer & cheese Cheese & snow & hockey & snowSnow & beer & bowling & beer Golf & beer & trolling & beer School & beer & sledding & beer Love & beer & (a) wedding & beer Cold beer here, getcher beer here Cheese & snow & beer Slush & ale & Monterey jack The above is a list of things that are at their peak at thirty degrees Fahrenheit, a common temperature in Wisconsin, my home state. So, Ed, does this mean you have your own computer and Internet service and might become a Mudcatter, or are you still at the library? If you do a Mudcat search for your name, you will find that you are even included in the Digital Tradition (click), so maybe you'd better get in here and defend yourself. By the way, if you have a CD player, I have a CD to send you with this song (click) on it. Also, be sure to check this thread (click). -Joe Offer- |
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23 Jun 01 - 10:13 AM (#490306) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Charley Noble From "Martin Said to His Man": I say a mouse chase a cat, Fie, man, fie, I say a mouse chase a cat, Who's the fool now? I saw a mouse chase a cat, Saw a CHEESE eat a rat! Thou has well drunken and who's the fool now? And isn't there an old English Music Hall shoplifting number with the refrain "me eggs, butter and CHEESE"? |
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23 Jun 01 - 01:13 PM (#490397) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Joe_F Even if it is known who wrote "Here's to Cheshire, Here's to Cheese", I would count it as traditional in that it is a variant of "Froggie Went a-Courting", which (IIRC) was already in print in the 17th century. If turnabout is fair play, one may mention a *cheese* that is about *songs*: Liederkranz. |
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24 Jun 01 - 12:36 PM (#490849) Subject: Lyr Add: WHO CUT THE GORGONZOLA? From: Sarah2 From WWII...
WHO CUT THE GORGONZOLA?
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3) *** Me mum can't recall if anybody actually recorded this little ditty -- but she remembers it being sung by some high-harmony group on the "Kraft Theatre with Bing Crosby" radio show. Sarah |
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24 Jun 01 - 04:32 PM (#490947) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: lady penelope There's always 'Pinky and the Brain's Cheese Roll Call, to one of Mr Souza's march's ( I can't remember which one!) TTFN M'Lady P. |
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24 Jun 01 - 05:05 PM (#490958) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Linda Kelly 'Let it Brie' The Beatles 'The twelfth of cheddar' Elvis Presley |
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24 Jun 01 - 06:16 PM (#490976) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Dave the Gnome When the Gorgonzola cheese went wrong. Music Hall style - sorry, no more details. Google search? Cheers (or is it Cheese?) Dave the Gnome |
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24 Jun 01 - 08:27 PM (#491016) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Bert Hey Joe, If the cheesemakers in Cheddar were to market a cheese and call it Wisconsin Cheese there would be an uproar from the kind folks of Wisconsin. But they have no problem in marketing a cheese which they call Cheddar? *Tee Hee* - Gotcha Joe. |
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25 Jun 01 - 12:00 AM (#491115) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Joe Offer And Cheddar is a city in which country? (as if I couldn't guess) Actually, my dictionary says Cheddar cheese was originally made in Cheddar in Somerset in England. That must have been before they started eating brie, eh? I've been exiled in California for 25 years, kind of like Napoleon in Corsica, I think. They make something here they call Wisconsin cheese. Yuck. -Joe Offer, lost Wisconsinite- |
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25 Jun 01 - 06:33 AM (#491219) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler "Cracking thread, Gromit". RtS (who doesn't eat much cheese, except for feta, natch!) |
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25 Jun 01 - 07:15 AM (#491234) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: pavane No-one ever offered to exile ME to California. Best I could get was Dubai (that was great, though). |
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25 Jun 01 - 10:53 AM (#491371) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Grab Just been shipped to the States for a bit. I wouldn't mind, except I've not yet found anywhere that sells proper cheese. On a scale of 1 to 5 on Cheddar maturity, I've not yet found anything that rates more than a 2, and that only barely. Does no-one here know what this stuff's supposed to taste like?! As for a good chunk of Grandma Singleton's Tasty Lancashire, fergeddit - that's hard enough to find in England! Graham. |
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25 Jun 01 - 01:35 PM (#491532) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,SharonA What about "Camembert's Picnic"? (y'know, "Teddy Bear's...") (never mind) |
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25 Jun 01 - 02:01 PM (#491553) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Jeri Nobody mentioned What a Friend We Have In Cheeses yet? Grab/Graham, you moved to the wrong side of the US. New England and New York have wonderful stinky cheeses. I remember when my family traveled, we'd make a point of going to a "country" store and buying a chunk cut off a huge wheel. Stuff smelled like socks you've worn for a month without washing, but it tasted great. Now there's Vermont Cheddar and New York Cheddar. I don't know why they kept "Cheddar" in the name. After all, even Cheddar cheese started as something else. Double Gloucester...I love the stuff, but a tiny piece probably contains the cholesterol content of complete cow. I lose the stuff in my refrigerator. Does that count as aging? I have new cheese and hairy cheese. I'm going to go shave myself a hunk right now... |
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25 Jun 01 - 02:03 PM (#491555) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Bert Where in the States are you Grab? and for how long? The nearest you'll find to a good Cheddar is a New York Extra Strong White Cheddar. Choose a pack that looks as though it's been on the shelf for a while and you might get lucky. Occasionally the silly sods over here sell it off cheap when it gets old, so look in the bargain, specials or discount sections of several stores. I saw a couple of dozen packs like that once, going for half price. I bought the lot. Bert. |
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25 Jun 01 - 02:23 PM (#491571) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Jeri I was just guessing at where Grab was. Could be he just hasn't found the good places to look yet. If you see cheese in plastic labeled "Cabot's" and called something like "Hunter's Cheddar," it's the best pre-packaged cheese I've ever tasted. Has a wide tartan stripe on it. (The package, not the cheese.) |
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25 Jun 01 - 04:08 PM (#491634) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Trapper How about ...
Cheese Sauce loves me, this I know - Al |
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25 Jun 01 - 05:43 PM (#491691) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Grab Detroit. Maybe I just need to do a bit more asking around, or look in a Yellow Pages (is there a section heading for "Cheese shops"? or for "shops that sell foods not constructed by ICI"? or even for "shops that sell food that's reasonably natural and tasty"?) I thought about asking local ppl. Then I realised most of them are used to this plastic food. :-) I can live with mild cheese though. What's harder to deal with is the lack of proper bread. Wholemeal bread simply doesn't seem to exist, it's all just varieties of white - and artificial cotton-wool white bread at that, not the fresh kind you'd get in France. The closest I've got is a small loaf of granary bread in Meijer (for non-Brits, that's brown non-wholemeal bread with grains) which was going to set me back $2.50 for about a 1lb loaf! Any advice on places to start looking for _proper_ food? :-) Even the health-food shops don't seem too well-stocked... Graham. |
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25 Jun 01 - 05:55 PM (#491708) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Liz the Squeak Nothing will ever better the Monty Python Cheese shop sketch, and I defy anyone to get Dorset Blue Vinney into a song and find a rhyme for vinney (a corruption of veiny -refers to the blue veins as in Stilton but using unpasteurised milk and a different strain of bacteria). LTS |
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25 Jun 01 - 06:33 PM (#491743) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Mr Red Wasn't there a song called (or containing the phrase) "the Bries and I"? and there must be a song with Caerphilly in it - think careully **groan**. |
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26 Jun 01 - 06:14 AM (#492036) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,mcpiper (cookieless again) Here in NZ we have a TV advert for cheese that made it's way into folklore. Read about it here
http://members.tripod.com/NZFolkie/ The cheese is still made, in fact I had some on my sandwiches at lunchtime today. Meet a Kiwi anywhere in the world and they will most likely be able to sing the Chesdale ad for you. |
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26 Jun 01 - 08:07 AM (#492077) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: M.Ted Grab, They've got some nasty food at Meijer's, don't they? I haven't lived in Detroit area for more than twenty years, but used to go to the Eastern Market-where there were several good bakeries, and a variety of specialty shops--my father went to the poultry shop and came back with a duck that lived in our garage for a while-- |
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26 Jun 01 - 08:41 AM (#492094) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: The Walrus at work With the earlier bad puns, I don't feel so bad about "I've Gouda get out of this place" or "I talk to the Bries". Walrus |
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26 Jun 01 - 10:42 AM (#492169) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: LR Mole D'ye Parmesan Peel? She wore blue Velveeta? Fetas, don't fail me now! |
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26 Jun 01 - 01:43 PM (#492327) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,petr Cheese on bread (it was an ontario band, I cant remember now ShuffleDemons?) |
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26 Jun 01 - 04:01 PM (#492400) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,Beadie " Don't cry for me, Velveeta." |
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26 Jun 01 - 11:57 PM (#492724) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Sarah2 And a short cheese horror story: When I first moved up here to the boondocks, I was delighted to find a cheese and wine shop, advertising imports no less, so I toddled over to it to see if they had any Stilton. They did; I grabbed it up and went to the checkout, where I stood behind a couple who were insisting that the mold (mould on imports) be cut off the chunk they were buying. I was speechless (well, I was young then...). No, no, this is the horrible part: the clerk offered with great sincerety to cut the mold off my Stilton, too! I knew I'd landed in the wastelands, then... Sarah |
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27 Jun 01 - 12:16 AM (#492734) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Bert Unless you're lucky enough to find a good baker, then the nearest thing you'll get to bread is San Francisco Sourdough. We just make our own, then we can make it just how we like it. LOL Sarah. We went into a store in Huntsville Alabama looking for some Romano. All they had was Made in USA. So I asked if they had any imported Romano. The girl said "This is Imported" I replied "It says here, Made in USA". She comes back with "Well we get it from Atlanta". I don't know how we managed to contain our laughter until we got outside the store. |
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27 Jun 01 - 01:34 AM (#492774) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Liz the Squeak I don't Caerphilly rains or freezes, Long as I got my plastic cheeses melted on my burger in the car.... Sorry, been a bad week. LTS |
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27 Jun 01 - 02:47 PM (#493214) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Jim Dixon Bert: Your story about "imported" Romano reminded me of this: A certain buffet-style restaurant near here had 2 prices posted on its menu, one for "Domestic beer" and one for "Imported beer." I ordered a locally made "craft" brew. I was surprised to see that the clerk rang up the "imported" price. I said, "Hey, that's not imported!" He replied, "Yeah, well, we classify it as imported because it's expensive." |
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27 Jun 01 - 02:53 PM (#493218) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: mousethief Reminds me of the old saw about the Italian restaurant located somewhere outside of Italy. The owner was proud that they used only imported cheeses, "Much better than anything you'll get in Italy -- they use domestic cheese there!" Alex |
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27 Jun 01 - 03:36 PM (#493266) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: LR Mole I want youuuuuu...to show me the whey...... |
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27 Jun 01 - 04:33 PM (#493322) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: McGrath of Harlow "I've been exiled in California for 25 years, kind of like Napoleon in Corsica..." (Joe Offer) I'd have seen Joe as the sort of man who knew his Ajaccio from his Elba!
"Cheese, my lady love..." |
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27 Jun 01 - 04:53 PM (#493344) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Jim Dixon There are several web sites that contain a transcription of Monty Python's Cheese Shop Sketch. They must all derive from the same source because they all contain the same misspellings! It appears that the transcriber had no idea how to spell many of the varieties of cheese mentioned in the sketch, so he spelled them phonetically! LOL! Would you believe "Dorset Bluveny"? (see above) |
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27 Jun 01 - 11:37 PM (#493640) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: bbc Don't forget the chorus from Singing rooty toot toot for the moon It's the biggest star I've ever seen It's a pearl of wisdom, a slice of green cheese And it's burnin' just like kerosene Burnin' just like kerosene bbc |
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27 Jun 01 - 11:38 PM (#493641) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: bbc Sigh, lost my title "Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon." bbc |
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06 Aug 14 - 02:08 AM (#3648680) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,Peter Nalder I wrote the song 'Gloucester Cheese and Ale' but neither I nor anyone else sang it much. Questions: Is it the only song which is simply a recipe? Anyone remember the song? Anyone want it? |
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06 Aug 14 - 02:52 AM (#3648686) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: MGM·Lion And they gruyère to the old church top Till they could grow no higher" |
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06 Aug 14 - 05:58 AM (#3648741) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST,CrazyEddie Blue Cheeeese of Kentucky, Keep on Smellin' The Blue Cheese Mountains of Virginia |
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06 Aug 14 - 09:34 AM (#3648791) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST Cheese Up Mother Brown.... |
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07 Aug 14 - 05:27 AM (#3649020) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Andrez Cheesus loves me? Cheers, Andrez |
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07 Aug 14 - 09:13 AM (#3649083) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: anasophia I'm surprised no one mentioned this song featuring the cheeses of Cheshire. Although it's mostly about a bear, and the cheeses seem to be thrown in as a afterthought, or maybe sponsored by the tourist board of Cheshire.http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1323 "The cheeses of Cheshire are famed, but beware..." |
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07 Aug 14 - 08:13 PM (#3649230) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST Monterey, Jack, and don't ya come back no more, no more... |
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07 Aug 14 - 09:14 PM (#3649237) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: GUEST You've probably seen this as a meme already, but just in case you missed it: Sweet dreams are made of cheese Who am I to dis a brie? I cheddar the world and the seven seas Everybody's looking for stilton Some of them want to fondue you Some of them want to be Roquefort Bleu.... |
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07 Aug 14 - 09:27 PM (#3649244) Subject: RE: cheese songs From: Andrez Ahhhhhhhh so good guest! Glad we didnt get the rest of the meme as it would be a Fetta worse than death to have the whole song going round my Brien :-) Cheers, Andrez |