Last night down our alley came a torff
queer old geezer with a nasty corff
sees my missus takes 'is cady orf
in a very gentlemanly way..

Says he "mam I 'ave got some news to tell
Your old uncle down in camberwell
Passed on and 'e asn't left a will
Only left ' is little donkey shay..

So "wotcha" all the neighbours cry
'oo you gonna meet Bill, 'ave you bought the street Bill?

Laugh, I thought I would have died

Knocked them in the old Kent Road..

Soozy - I grew up with this stuff

Any luck, Sprout..?  I had a quick google but got Soozy's OP and a load of stuff about James Joyce.


Ahh yes.  My mate used to trill along to her favourite song "You little truck maker"
We'd giggle for hours over that.  I don't think the Trammps would have been so impressed though.

i have got a 7inch   yellow record of the dickie's version of banana splits   oh and a blue version
( i mean the colour )  of the police  record can't stand losing...............

For me it was all about The Jam (first band i ever saw Live) and still have all the singles in mint condition - including 2 autographed picture sleeves - 1 by Weller only, the other by the whole band. The only coloured vinyl by them though was a yellow flexi disc given away with the Record Mirror that barely played then - let alone now!

ahh,I still like the scratchy hissiness of my vinyl..

YAY! I couldn't find anything to match it. Issy has it I think 

Same here.... it is an emotional thing.

I did it from memory - my parents were from the East End of London

Snap lexie! Must've been a fire sale in Hamilton ( and they never melted!)

Sandra - same blue one as me!  Picture sleeve with the guy with a noose around on his neck, standing on a block of ice beside an electric fire?

ohhh no wait.. it's "Raaaaawwwwwwksanne!" I had on blue vinyl..

Soozy Woo

Check out this site

http://londonbobby.com/lblyric.htm

and do a text search on "down our street one day there came a toff"

Looks like it was a song called

Wot Cher! by Albert Chevalier

Yep Comforting!

Here it is - I guess we made our own words up

See.. I wondered if it was Roxanne.. but the picture sleeve deffo went with Can't Stand losing you.      I've never forgiven my mates for refusing to go and see the Police with me when they played at St Andrews Uni union.    'honest - they're good... ' says me'  'nah, never heard of them' said they.

lol lol oot ae woolies   

Cheers all you who got there before me  I was off searching.

Carnelian..
I have just bookmarked that site - thanks.

Mary Ellen at the Church turned up is a  very old family song.
My parents sang it to me. I sang it to my kids...

And thus it goes on

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Vinyl!

I swear just about every 13-year-old that i knew had this album - still got mine somewhere!

naw i remember greetin ma eyes oot lol to first love to that song 

You know, this tinternetty thing's bloomin good innit! 

My 24 year old really loved Adam and the Ants at 13...

I blame myself..

Me too...........like I say.......I must go look properly sometime 

Haha!!

this is for sale on t'interweb for £26        I foresee a trip to the attic at the weekend.

*Hopes it's not too warm in Kaffys attic* and they've stood the test of time 

aw .......... omg , i've just found albatross in ma wee tin 

You see, it is worth hanging on to stuff,

Ah.........but can you find 'The Green Manalishi' ?

oh noes ,  sorry i came in noo ,   you made me listen to  up the junction  ...........  that song makes me cry 

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitt?  lol  don't interrupt  ma greetin  

See! That's m'point. I can find a Green Manalishi with a crown that may have a certain number of prongs, at a stroke.

I know that song..!  Well I suppose I should do coming from London.
Never properly knew the verse but the chorus is a different matter.
*clears throat and gives the forum a rendition* 

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So, it's all around to K-Bo's attic for the spoils of her vinyl sale, eh?

What part of London are you from Cosi?

Sarf innit.  Lambeth gal.  'The Walk' I do by default.   I did defect to across the river for a while and am now down near the coast.

11:59 is one of my all time fav songs, love it. Couldn't tell you what else was on the album, but that track I've played constantly for 20 plus years.

I've got 100's of albums, 12 inch & 7inch singles, picture covers &  picture discs.
All scattered around various places, Some still at my Mum's, some in the loft, I've got a lot of different coloured vinyl 7inch singles from the late 70's early eighties. Some were worth a few bob at one stage, I went to a record collectors fair once to sell, ended up buying more. I couldn't part with any. I'm not sure some of them would be playable now as they've not been stored in a ideal way.

i threw some of mine away last year, bay city rollers/(barry manilow ) however my oh still has his elvis albums