REQUEST: Tan me hide when I've died,Clyde
yoyo
song titled(?) Tan Me Hide When I've Died, Clyde? It's been years
since I've heard it but it has recently popped (pope-ed, poop-ed)
into my head.
Responses to the net or e-mail ok.
Samurai Geologist
ru...@ucsu.colorado.edu
christopher motherway
The song is "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" by Rolf Harris. "So we tanned
his hide when he died, Clyde" is the next to last line. Don't know the
rest, though.
Chris Wolvie
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'Just like Gerald Ford.'
-AIRPLANE
Phyllis Johnpoll
: Anyone out there in radio land have the words for an Aulstrailian
: Samurai Geologist
: ru...@ucsu.colorado.edu
I believe you're looking for "Tie Me Kangaroo Down," which was popular
back when I was really young. I think I have the lyrics at home; if so
I'll try to remember them (dead memory this month!) and post them
tomorrow.
*BB*
Andrew Baker Glazier
"Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" is an Australian (duh!) song by Rolph Harris
that's been popular on the show for longer than I can remember. I doubt
you'll find it, except on the show or maybe one of Dr.D.s records.
Vikas Nanda
George's guitar's on the blink I think ...
Don't ill treat me pet dingo, Ringo
You know he cant understand your lingo Ringo so don't ill treat me pet dingo.
There were others with Paul and John. I taped the song off the show.
Hope that triggers some memory neurons.
-vik
Nick Simicich
Tie me Kangaroo Down
From memory:
[Spoken speech regarding an aussie who lay dieing, who was telling his
mates his last wishes:]
[chorus, sung for the first time by the main singler alone, as I
recall:]
All together now!
Tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down.
uh, don't let him go runnin' around, sport,
just tie me kangaroo down
Mind me platypus duck, bill, mind me platypus duck.
uh, don't let him go runnin' amok, Bill
just mind me platypus duck.
[chorus]
Keep me cockatoo cool, ko, keep me cockatoo cool.
Um, don't go playin' the fool, co,
just keep me cockatoo cool.
[chorus]
Turn me wallabies loose, Bruce, Turn me wallabies loose.
I don't see how you can refuse, Bruce (?)
so turn me wallabies loose.
[chorus]
Take me koala back, Jack, take me koala back.
(I don't remember this line.)
so take be koala back.
[chorus]
[weaker, slow tempo, progressively slower]
Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred, Tan me hide when I'm dead.
[resume original tempo, different voice]
So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde,
and that it hanging on the shed!
[chorus]
I don't recall any other verses, but I there may have been others. It
has been about 30 years since I heard the song.
Nick Simicich
n...@watson.ibm.com
Nolan Allen Polley
>This was a hit in the Miami area (WQAM) back in 1959 or so:
>
>Tie me Kangaroo Down
>
that I was given when I was a kid. Unfortunately I'm at collge right now and
the records are at home. The set was a collection of 10 45's availible from
the Sears catalog whish book sometime in the late '70s. The set was called
"Children's Treasury of Record Favorites". So if you have a set of these
still around you may have a copy of it {coplete with crackles and pops :) }
Nolan Polley
napo...@ccff.cc.utexas.edu
Dave B Stewart
Tom Grier
Simicich) wrote:
>
> This was a hit in the Miami area (WQAM) back in 1959 or so:
>
> Tie me Kangaroo Down
>
> From memory:
>
> [Spoken speech regarding an aussie who lay dieing, who was telling his
> mates his last wishes:]
>
> [chorus, sung for the first time by the main singler alone, as I
> recall:]
>
> All together now!
> Tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down.
> uh, don't let him go runnin' around, sport,
> just tie me kangaroo down
Actually it was just "tie me kangaroo down sport" again in the third line
(replacing what you had written).
>
> Mind me platypus duck, bill, mind me platypus duck.
> uh, don't let him go runnin' amok, Bill
> just mind me platypus duck.
>
> [chorus]
>
> Keep me cockatoo cool, ko, keep me cockatoo cool.
> Um, don't go playin' the fool, co,
> just keep me cockatoo cool.
>
> [chorus]
>
> Turn me wallabies loose, Bruce, Turn me wallabies loose.
> I don't see how you can refuse, Bruce (?)
> so turn me wallabies loose.
>
> [chorus]
>
> Take me koala back, Jack, take me koala back.
> (I don't remember this line.)
> so take be koala back.
>
> [chorus]
>
> [weaker, slow tempo, progressively slower]
> Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred, Tan me hide when I'm dead.
> [resume original tempo, different voice]
> So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde,
> and that it hanging on the shed!
>
> [chorus]
>
> I don't recall any other verses, but I there may have been others. It
> has been about 30 years since I heard the song.
Wow, I'm impressed, you got almost all of 'em. The song was released on
EPIC record (yellow label) in the U.S. and was a hit in 1963.
Let's see.. .there was "Let me ebboes go loose lou, let me ebboes go loose,
there of no further use Lou, so let me ebboes go loose." (somewhere in the
middle)
AND, just before the last verse, which you correctly listed above .. there
was
"Play the diggery do, Blue, Play the diggery do, Awww keep playing it till
I shoot through, Blue, just play the diggery do."
Fun Song ... I have the album and play the song once in a while at a teen
dance and the kids sing along at the top of their lungs ... how do they
know dat???
---
- Tom Grier (tgr...@VAX2.Winona.MSUS.EDU)
____________________________________________
" two chicken burritos with sour cream? "
- The Taco Bell Dude
Buddy Brannan
I'm not here for a while, and won't have a computer till probably after my
account here dies...
This is one of my favorite songs, actually. I wonder where I can get a copy?
I have this friend from Australia who was really surprised that I knew it...
Does anyone know/has anyone heard the Southern version of this song? I only
heard it once ("Tie Me Huntin' Dog Down"). What is it:
Bury me up on the hill, Phil,
Turn my face to the sky.
Yeah, we'll bury you up on the hill, Bill,
If you'll just hurry up and die!~!!!
Anyone know where I can find that one, too?
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV, Riff-Raff #4
The World's Youngest Old Fart :-)
Internet: dav...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
"... Every inch of me that isn't a carnivore is 100% vegetarian."--Elf-Kin
Phyllis Johnpoll
who is lying, dying? I don't remember more than just that.
*BB*
--
Hey, like, do what y'wilt, y'know. And, like, don't hurt anyone, okay?
-Cherry PopTart
Andrew Raphael
>Let's see.. .there was "Let me ebboes go loose lou, let me ebboes
>go loose, there of no further use Lou, so let me ebboes go loose."
>(somewhere in the middle)
Not ebboes, Abos. An abo is an Aborigine, a native Australian. This dates
the song terribly, since "abo" is insulting, like "coon".
>AND, just before the last verse, which you correctly listed above ..
>there was "Play the diggery do, Blue, Play the diggery do, Awww keep
>playing it till I shoot through, Blue, just play the diggery do."
Digeridu. The Aboriginal instrument. A hollow log you blow through &
circular breathe to get a drone. Blue, of course, is a redhead.
Rolf Harris has make a come-back, since his appearance on "The Money Or
The Gun". He did "Stairway To Heaven" in the style of "Tie Me Kangaroo
Down Sport". You'll find it on the album & video "Stairways To Heaven",
along with 20 or so other versions of the song. Beatles & Doors tribute
bands, girl pop, hard rock, opera & operetta, spoken word, etc. Hilarious.
Rolf's version starts:
There's an old Australian rock band, lying, dying.
They lift themselves up on one elbow,
And revert to their early seventies arrangements,
Then the wobble board comes in, and we're off with "There's a lady who's
sure..."
--
Andrew Raphael <rap...@research.canon.oz.au>
"Bartender! A schooner of the best milk, please."
Tom Grier
>
> But can anyone remember the spoken intro, about the old Australian watchman
> who is lying, dying? I don't remember more than just that.
>
It's "There's an old Australian watchmen ... lying ... dying. And he gets
up onto his elbow and he says to his mates ... Watch me wallabies ...etc.
(into the song)"
> *BB*
>
> --
> Hey, like, do what y'wilt, y'know. And, like, don't hurt anyone, okay?
> -Cherry PopTart
---
Tom Grier
(Tom Grier) wrote:
>
> In article <CAA2w...@ihs.com>, phyl...@ihs.com (Phyllis Johnpoll) wrote:
> >
> > But can anyone remember the spoken intro, about the old Australian watchman
> > who is lying, dying? I don't remember more than just that.
> >
>
> It's "There's an old Australian watchmen ... lying ... dying. And he gets
> up onto his elbow and he says to his mates ... Watch me wallabies ...etc.
> (into the song)"
watchman. sorry.
Caro Field
> >
> > But can anyone remember the spoken intro, about the old Australian watchman
> > who is lying, dying? I don't remember more than just that.
> >
>
> It's "There's an old Australian watchmen ... lying ... dying. And he gets
> up onto his elbow and he says to his mates ... Watch me wallabies ...etc.
> (into the song)"
Actually, it was *stockman*, not watchman... and after the lying...
dying.... there should be a slight pause and sad "ahhhhhhh"... and then
the rest of it..
Caro
j. tinkle
>
>Let's see.. .there was "Let me ebboes go loose lou, let me ebboes go loose,
>there of no further use Lou, so let me ebboes go loose." (somewhere in the
>middle)
>
considered derisive.
>AND, just before the last verse, which you correctly listed above .. there
>was
>"Play the diggery do, Blue, Play the diggery do, Awww keep playing it till
>I shoot through, Blue, just play the diggery do."
Digeridoo. It's an Aboriginal "musical" instrument.
>- Tom Grier (tgr...@VAX2.Winona.MSUS.EDU)
>____________________________________________
>" two chicken burritos with sour cream? "
> - The Taco Bell Dude
Jennifer
-------- BSCS and Aussiephile
Babs: "But I can't take that chance!"
(Sigh. Maybe it just reminds me of my own love life.)
"I'm sorry. The rabbit you have dialed has been disconnected."
(Sigh. Maybe it just reminds me of when I fall in love.)
Max: "Let go, you butt-faced dweeb!"
_Prom-ise Her Anything_
Andrew Raphael
>In article <tgrier-16...@134.29.77.20> tgr...@vax2.winona.msus.edu
>(Tom Grier) writes:
>>Let's see.. .there was "Let me ebboes go loose lou, let me ebboes
>>go loose, there of no further use Lou, so let me ebboes go loose."
>>(somewhere in the middle)
>That would be "Abos". It's short for Aborigines, veritable slaves.
Not quite. People bought to Australia as slaves/bonded labourers were
"Blackbirds", & usually worked the sugar cane fields. They were taken
from Melanesian islands in the Pacific, by "blackbirders".
--
Andrew Raphael <rap...@research.canon.oz.au>
"She's probably not what she seems, though she tries."
diane nolan
:jti...@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle ) writes:
::In article <tgrier-16...@134.29.77.20> tgr...@vax2.winona.msus.edu
::(Tom Grier) writes:
:::Let's see.. .there was "Let me ebboes go loose lou, let me ebboes
:::go loose, there of no further use Lou, so let me ebboes go loose."
:::(somewhere in the middle)
::That would be "Abos". It's short for Aborigines, veritable slaves.
:Not quite. People bought to Australia as slaves/bonded labourers were
:"Blackbirds", & usually worked the sugar cane fields. They were taken
:from Melanesian islands in the Pacific, by "blackbirders".
An aborigine is a person descended from the original inhabitants of an
area--in the USA, the "Indians" are called "Native Americans" but it
would be technically more accurate to call them aboriginal Americans.