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02 Jul 03 - 01:18 PM (#975272) Subject: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: GUEST,Diane Does anyone know the words to Sixteen Stones, a spoof on Sixteen Tons. Starts like Sixteen Stones and what do you get , a whole lotta women...... |
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02 Jul 03 - 01:26 PM (#975284) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Catherine Jayne Liz the Squeak sings it as does Jude L.....If you register you can send them a PM and I am sure they send you the lyrics! |
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02 Jul 03 - 02:07 PM (#975325) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Abuwood Hazel Absolom of Steel Bunny wrote it |
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02 Jul 03 - 02:29 PM (#975347) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: McGrath of Harlow Of course it wouldn't work in America would it? They don't seem to use stones as a measure of weight, just pounds. Which I find totally confusing, since I don't know my sixteen times table to enable convert the pounds to stones, not without a piece of paper handy... But "You got 256 pounds...", which is what it works out at, just wouldn't do in the song. |
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02 Jul 03 - 02:59 PM (#975369) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Micca Kevin, I think you will find that there are 14 pounds to a stone ( 8 stone = 1 Hundreweight which = 112lbs) |
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02 Jul 03 - 03:11 PM (#975381) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: McGrath of Harlow You're quite right. I get mixed up with Galleons and Sickles and Knuts and such. And I don't know my fourteen times table either... |
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02 Jul 03 - 03:15 PM (#975385) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Noreen Sixteen Stone Liz already posted it. |
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02 Jul 03 - 03:19 PM (#975389) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: GUEST,Q = 100.8 kilograms. |
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02 Jul 03 - 03:27 PM (#975398) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Herga Kitty It's a wonderful song. The Admiral's wife (Pearl) sings it too.... It's not just the words that make it a wonderful song, but the unscripted actions. The words posted by Liz don't include the "Dum, de-dum, de-dum de-dum dum" between the chorus and the start of the next verse. Kitty |
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02 Jul 03 - 03:35 PM (#975404) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Liz the Squeak Hazels' original version didn't have the scat bits in between verses, I cribbed them from Mrs Admiral Pearl. LTS |
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02 Jul 03 - 05:46 PM (#975510) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Susan of DT It will be in the new version of the DT, in progress, not yet turned over to the guy who turns DOS into Windows & MAC. |
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02 Jul 03 - 05:59 PM (#975518) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Emma B Hey Pearl, Jude and Kitty - if I put the 2 1/2 stone back on again can I join in the chorus again at S&A? |
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02 Jul 03 - 06:14 PM (#975521) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Herga Kitty Emma - if you put the 2 1/2 stone back on you could probably enter and win the Doom, Gloom and Despondency workshop at Sidmouth.. |
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02 Jul 03 - 06:28 PM (#975527) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Liz the Squeak Well I still sing it and I've lost 1 1/2 stone since March.... I think you can probably sing it at any shape and size, except Callista Flockheart.... LTS |
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02 Jul 03 - 10:51 PM (#975685) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Janie It works great in America! Morticia had us all in stitches, and then singing along on the chorus at last year's Getaway. If I remember correctly, we made (begged) her to sing it every night. Hey guys, only 4 months to October!! Janie |
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03 Jul 03 - 03:32 AM (#975742) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Steve Parkes Interesting ... I've got Max Bygraves' recording, but that's called "Seventeen Stone", and it's not quite the same song. If you pronounce "stones" as "stuns" in the old-fashioned way, it's a better parody (vide "Ask a p'liceman": How to fly, though twenty "stun"). Steve Aagh! I just admitted to possessing Max Bygraves records!! |
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03 Jul 03 - 03:51 AM (#975747) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: JudeL Who needs to be 16 stone to sing it? You just have to have attitude. As for Callister Flockhart, I would say that even she could sing it if she did it in a suitably ironical way but I'm not sure if she's that good an actress. Speaking of putting attitude into songs, I do treasure the memory of Lorraine's performance at last year's Song & Ale of "If I were a Blackbird" complete with actions. It gave it whole new meanings to it & I'll never think of that song in the same way again. Shame it wasn't video'd |
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03 Jul 03 - 11:55 AM (#976002) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Micca Parksy, I KNEW there was something STRANGE about you!! |
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03 Jul 03 - 12:18 PM (#976017) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Steve Parkes You don't know the half of it, Micca! won't even mention Peter Brough & Archie Andrews! |
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04 Jul 03 - 02:38 AM (#976445) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Abuwood Well done Liz on your weight loss! , I am still trying to get down to the right weight to sing this song. |
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04 Jul 03 - 02:03 PM (#976790) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Liz the Squeak Thanks... all done for health reasons, rather than any desire to look like the aforementioned Ms Flockheart, although if it gets me Harrison Ford as a boyfriend..... LTS |
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05 Jul 03 - 03:32 AM (#977153) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Murray MacLeod Hey, less knocking of Callista Flockhart, please ! Apart from being a wondrously talented actress, she is the fantasy of every male on the planet. Murray |
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05 Jul 03 - 05:04 AM (#977180) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: JudeL I must refute the statement that Callista Flockhart is every males fantasy,talented actress she may be but in my opinion she is a 'nee tits sparrow legged spelck'. More likely candidates that are well known would be Cindy Crawford, Kate Winslett (before she went on diet) but my personal favorite has to be Dawn French, now she's a proper woman, something to cuddle. geordie paul on judes cookie |
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05 Jul 03 - 05:17 AM (#977182) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Noreen Thanks for that, Paul :0) |
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05 Jul 03 - 08:10 AM (#977226) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Snuffy She was sixteen stone All muscle and bone And I might have been a millionaire She might have been mine But she fell in a decline Through swallowing a mouse in her beer |
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05 Jul 03 - 12:07 PM (#977316) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Murray MacLeod I would like to correct my previous thoughtless and ill-judged statement that Callista Flockhart is the fantasy of every man on the planet. I should have said "....almost every man on the planet...." Murray |
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05 Jul 03 - 03:27 PM (#977418) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: lady penelope Do you know, Dawn French was my drama teacher at school? S'true! She left just before our 'O' levels to go and do something at the Edinburgh fringe, which turned out to be "Comic Strip Presents....." She was slightly thinner but essentially the same. A very genuine person. A good laugh, but actually a very good teacher. There are many body shapes and there are many "tastes" to reflect this, ie there's something for everyone!!!! TTFN Lady P. |
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06 Jul 03 - 06:19 AM (#977690) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Liz the Squeak Lady P - Thank F*&" for that!!! LTS |
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17 Apr 08 - 02:21 PM (#2318487) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: GUEST,Lady Constance Then there's always Harry Champion's The Best That Money Can Buy - Twenty stone, all her own, all of it flesh and none of it bone, And she stands six foot high. |
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17 Apr 08 - 02:29 PM (#2318493) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sixteen Stone From: Megan L Jist as weel ye corrected that an Orkney fairmers fantasy is an Aberdeen Angus Coo whits gonny win the county show. |