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Lyr Req: Skin (from Roy Bailey)

28 Nov 01 - 01:19 PM (#599477)
Subject: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: GUEST,k_a_horne@yahoo.co.uk

Roy Bailey - childrens CD including a song with the following chorus (if I remember correctly):

"You need skin,Take good care of it, don't harm a hair of it, you couldn't live without it. Keep it clean, soapy water everyday keeps the dirt and germs away, cos you need skin"

I heard this song at Cambridge folk festival and am now trying to find it and/or the CD it is on.

K.

28 Nov 01 - 01:26 PM (#599482)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: GUEST,Paul

'Skin' is a Leon Rosselson song. Roy Bailey performs it on the album "Why Does It Have To Be Me?" See this page

No luck with lyrics yet

Paul

28 Nov 01 - 04:32 PM (#599620)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: breezy

you need skin , take good care of it . Dont harm a hair of it , what would you do without it?KEEP IT CLEAN ,SOAP AND WATER EVERY DAY, WASH THE DIRT AND GERMS AWAY,COS YOU NEED SKIN. help!!whether your black or whether your brown, it stops your tummy from tumbling down, ..Whether your silly or whether your smart it stops your bones from falling apart, you need etc....v3 whether your fat or whether your thin it stps the germs from crawling in, whether skinny or whether your stout it stps your blood from trickling out, ...ch. you need etc... from memory so feel free to correct ...and is there anymore?

28 Nov 01 - 04:45 PM (#599632)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: okthen

Do I remember Max Bygraves singing this? Is it the same tune as "you need hands"? Or is it too late at night or was it "you need friends" or am I too old and why do I keep on asking silly questions.........

28 Nov 01 - 04:46 PM (#599633)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: Jim Dixon

I know it's not the song you're looking for, but you might want to take a look at Alan Sherman's parody, YOU GOTTA HAVE SKIN. Although the DT doesn't say so, it's sung to the tune of that old standard YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART.

28 Nov 01 - 04:53 PM (#599642)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: breezy

dear okthen. no.

28 Nov 01 - 06:38 PM (#599733)
Subject: Lyr Add: SKIN (Leon Rosselson)
From: Stewie

Bailey's version differs a bit from what breezy posted:

SKIN
(Leon Rosselson)

CHORUS: You need skin; take good care of it.
Don't harm a hair of it.
What would you do without it?
Keep it clean; soapy water every day
Will wash the dirt and smells away
'Cause you need skin.

1. Whether you're fat or whether you're thin,
It keeps the germs from crawling in.
Whether you're skinny or whether you're stout,
It stops the blood from trickling out.

2. Whether you're black or whether you're brown,
It keeps your tummy from tumbling down.
Whether you're silly or whether you're smart,
It keeps your bones from falling apart.

3. Whether you're dark or whether you're fair,
Skin's the thing for growing hair.
It's waterproof in rainy weather,
And keeps the bits of your body together.


Source: as printed in booklet insert for Roy Bailey 'Why Does It Have to Be Me' Fuse Records CFCD 396.

--Stewie.

29 Nov 01 - 02:28 PM (#600382)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: breezy

Knew I'ld missed a verse, but I like to finish with a curdling ''blood trickling out'' , kids love it as a climactic end.Thanks Stewie.

03 Jul 09 - 10:38 AM (#2670660)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: Alio

Does anyone possibly have the sheet music for this song?
Ali

03 Jul 09 - 01:32 PM (#2670785)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: Willa

Don't have sheet music but could pm you an ABC version if that's any use.

03 Jul 09 - 04:29 PM (#2670920)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: Alio

Yes please Willa - I'm teaching some youngsters to enjoy singing! They're getting ready for a production!

Ali

03 Jul 09 - 08:16 PM (#2671114)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: Tug the Cox

Actually, Okthen was spot on. Max Bygraves had a hit with 'You need hands'. he self parodied a couiple of times on TV with a two liner

   ' You got to have skin
      To keep yourself in'

03 Jul 09 - 08:18 PM (#2671116)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: Tug the Cox

Sorry, I meant
'You ned skin
To keep yourself in'

    Bygraves. M circa late 50's.

03 Jul 09 - 08:18 PM (#2671118)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Roy Bailey, 'You need skin...'
From: Tug the Cox

NEED

31 Aug 14 - 04:43 PM (#3655651)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Skin (from Roy Bailey)
From: GUEST,nick

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19 May 15 - 09:08 AM (#3709968)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Skin (from Roy Bailey)
From: GUEST,franc 91

Leon Rosselson sings this (very enthusiastically, I might add) on his CD Questions - Songs and Stories for Children CFCD 004 - Fuse Records.
Leon (vocal & guitar), Fiz Shapur (piano),and the children - Amy Dawson, Yolanda Rosselson, Alphonse Ryan, Ella Ryan and John-Jo Ryan (chorus). Leon says that he wrote it for Inter-Action (thanks to Ed Berman). There's a good version of 'Why does it have to be me?' on the same CD. I phoned him up one day, because I wasn't quite sure of the words and he very kindly emailed the words for both of these songs. I'm very grateful to him.