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Lyr Req: While sheepdogs watch their...(Les Barker

16 Dec 05 - 09:45 AM (#1628725)
Subject: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST

Anyone got the lyrics for this or any other funny Xmas songs please.


16 Dec 05 - 06:31 PM (#1629089)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch the
From: dick greenhaus

You might try the CD "Bah! Humbug!" Some good, funny stuff there.


16 Dec 05 - 07:35 PM (#1629124)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch the
From: Morticia

Arrest These Merry Gentleman by Sid Kipper is my favourite


16 Dec 05 - 07:49 PM (#1629137)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: Mr Happy

any werds, morty??


16 Dec 05 - 08:23 PM (#1629157)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch the
From: Morticia

These are the track listings, Mr H.....best buy the album for the words, I hear Chris could use a few bob:

Arrest These Merry Gentlemen
1. Arrest These Merry Gentlemen
2. Thanks A Lot, God
3. Northrepps Twelfth Night Song
4. The Awful Story Of Black Shag
5. Oh Little Town Of Gimingham
6. The Roots Of The Blues
7. Anna Ingram's Sister
8. Ring Out Wild Jingle Bells
9. Awayday
10. I Know What I Believe
11. That Was Christmas Eve
12. The Disabled Seaman
13. Underwood's Milk
14. The Ivy And The Holly
15. The Trunch A To Z
16. Christmas Collapso
17. We Wish You A Merry Xmas

try here for all things Kipper

http://www.sidkipper.co.uk/


16 Dec 05 - 09:55 PM (#1629217)
Subject: Lyr Add: CHRISTMAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED (P Mortimer)
From: Sandra in Sydney

An Ozzie favourite for you -

"Christmas has been cancelled" by Paul Mortimer
(Tune: Lili Marlene)

Christmas has been cancelled,
Santa Claus is dead.
When the scandal broke
He put a bullet through his head.
Pinned to his chest they found a note
Admitting what - the papers wrote:
That he was on the payroll
Of Toltoys and K-tel.

It was bigger still than Lockheed
Worse than Watergate.
Kids throughout the world
Called for his head upon a plate
The myth was destroyed and in its wake,
Old Santy stood there a callous fake.
And evidence is mounting
That he was C.I.A.

The Church it tried to brand him
A charlatan and worse.
The Pope said 'Keep off Christmas, mate,
We used that number first,
As a time when all good Christians sing
Of Jesus Christ and cribs and things.
Of course it's only bulldust
To get the faithful in.'

Further allegations
Have made the papers wail,
That Santa's love for children
Was way beyond the pale,
He always liked to give out toys
To little girls and little boys.
It seems that he was harmless
But some don't understand.

Well we can still be jolly
And celebrate New Year,
And we'll be nice to other folks
More than once a year.
With no tinsel trees or plastic snow
Or jingle bells or yo ho ho's.
And no more f***ing reindeer
Or little drummer boys.

Repeat first verse.


16 Dec 05 - 09:59 PM (#1629222)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: Effsee

The "Bah, Humbug" CD is available through    www.greentrx.com    BTW.


17 Dec 05 - 09:59 PM (#1629769)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch the
From: dick greenhaus

Both "Arrest These Merry Gentlemen" and "Bah! Humbug!" are also available at CAMSCO. Along with everything else.


18 Dec 05 - 06:26 PM (#1630219)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST

this is not nice

Mrs santa


19 Dec 05 - 05:27 AM (#1630397)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST,Raggytash

That's rich Mrs Santa, according to His Worship and the Pig, you clearded off with Jason from Toys R Us and at present are residing in a maisonette in Milton Keynes


19 Dec 05 - 10:03 AM (#1630538)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST,leeneia

Lies, half-truths and propaganda, raggytash. You have been victimized by the tabloids.

Mrs. Santa is in that snug cottage at the North Pole, making cocoa for Santa and the elves at this very moment.


19 Dec 05 - 10:21 AM (#1630552)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Les Barkers While sheepdogs watch their
From: GUEST,Raggytash

'fraid not Leeneia, Christmas will be cancelled this year Santa has actually has said


So don't leave a stocking on the mantle shelf
don't leave a treat for Rudolf and myself
stuff the Christmas turkey and sod the Christmas fuss
Mary's gone and left for the man from Toys R Us


14 Dec 17 - 09:12 AM (#3893954)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: While sheepdogs watch their...(Les Barker
From: GUEST,Stafford

I came here to find the lyrics which I learnt 30 years ago then forgot.
They weren't here so I've had to remember them.



While Shepherds Washed their socks by night
All seated on the ground
The sheepdogs asked for Christmas off
Or double time all round

For double time we'll guard your flocks
We'll fight the wily fox
Throw in an extra couple of Bob
We'll even wash your socks

And Lo that night was Christmas Eve
A star shone in the East
The Angel of the Lord came down
With sixteen pairs at least

The Angels got their laundry done
Untouched by human hand
They paid the dogs in garden peas
All fresh and newly canned.

This evening when you go to bed
Remember your dogs worth
Not only do they guard your flocks
They brought you Peas On Earth


14 Dec 17 - 10:06 AM (#3893968)
Subject: ADD: Lyr Req: While sheepdogs watch their...(Les B
From: GUEST,Stafford

See my previous reply for the full lyrics
I hadn't read The FAQ then.
The title is actually
"While Shepherds Washed their socks by night"

It's a poem by Les Barker
I learnt it in the 1980s.
It can be sung to the usual church tune of "While Shepherds watched ......."


14 Dec 17 - 10:58 AM (#3893977)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: While sheepdogs watch their...(Les Barker
From: Dave Hanson

My personal favourite is ' Hey Santa Claus ' by the Australian National treasure, Kevin ' Bloody ' Wilson.

Dave H