daft song title anyone?

Nathan Jones Bananarama/the Supremes

On Ilkley Moor baht 'at

Perfidia (Dominquez)

Quinn the Eskimo Manfred Mann

(We've had that!)

Quest for fire Iron Maiden...they don't play this very often, shame.... :0(

Relight my fire - Take That and Lulu (I think!)

Sexy Eyes - Dr Hook

That's Life! [Frank Sinatra?]

The Diary of Horace Wimp....ELO

Under the bridges of Paris

When we were at Heckmondwike Grammar School my brother wrote daft words to Under the Bridges of Paris:

Wouldn't you like to be
On the Spen Beck with me
Under the bridges of Heckmondwike......

I think it got a bit mucky after that.

He also wrote rude words to the Marseillaise when the school was putting on 'A Tale of Two Cities' for the annual school play. The choir had to march down through the audience singing the Marseillaise, but too many of them sang my brother's words:

'A French man went to the lavatory
He was there for quite a while
In the lav there was no paper
In the lav there was no paper
Monsieur, je fait manure
Monsieur, je fait manure
ou est le papier
ou est le papier'

Gawd - we thought we were so clever!

Did he go on to become a songwriter?Heckmondwike/Heckmondwyke, hmmmn not easy to rhyme anything with that!Which is correct spelling by the way?

Valerie - Amy Winehouse

What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For - Emile Ford And The Checkmates

Yesterday Man - Chris Andrews

rosesared No, my brother became a design engineer, designing transformers not rude songs.
It is Heckmondwike, by the way, a very typical West Riding mill town. Just remembered the school song:

Heckmondwike the school we honour
Keep its name forever bright
Winning, losing neither matters
If the game be played aright.

Sounded absolutely awful, and no doubt my big brother had some rude words to it but I've long forgotten them. The school motto was 'nil sine labore; ie 'nothing without work', or 'nowt baht graft' in dialect. Typical Yorkshire sentiment. In fact the school itself looked like a Victorian mill from the outside.

Joan I can well imagine you and your brother trudging off to a sort of 'Dotheboys Hall' in the snow, in despondancy and in your clogs.Or am I confusing you with a Dickens novel? Any dark satanic mills in Heckmondwike?

Back to song titles and Z yet again. Nope, can't think of any so am going back to A which is a lot more do-able.

A Summer Place[this was film music, but then somebody put words to it can't think who.]

Zippity Do Dah

Bring me sunshine (apologies if we've had it)

rosesared Oh yes - lots of dark satanic mills in Heckmondwike back then. Dad finished his working life spinning carpet yarn there. He and Mum met when he was a spinner and she was a weaver in the same mill! All sounds very clogs and shawl and LS Lowry, doesn't it? My other brother was an engineer who started his post-apprenticeship life fitting textile machinery, and I and the brother who wrote naughty verse both worked in a woolen mill in the school holidays, with Dad as our foreman.

But the mills are gone now, or turned into posh apartments.

That song 'Where have all the flowers Gone?' should have a final verse, Where have all the old mills gone?, because they, and all the work they offered are just Memories.

Lowry pictures: www.google.com.au/search?hl=en-AU&source=hp&q=l+s+lowry+paintings&gbv=2&oq=l+s+lowry&gs_l=heirloom-hp.1.1.0l10.1346.7257.0.9368.11.9.0.2.0.0.278.1184.2-5.5.0....0...1ac.1.34.heirloom-hp..7.4.962.sFocvNyXrtA

Who took the A???

Achey Breakey Heart

Boom bang a bang

Chimchimereee!!!!