UK Based .... Singer/Comedian Mike Harding.
MarkAGr
Hello All,
As a youth I had a copy of "Captain Paraletic And The Brown Ale Cowboys."
There's one track I'd like the words for, and I was wondering if anyone could
help me ... especially Mike if he's listening ....
The track is .... "Bring on the Rosy Cheeked Girls" ... When said with
feeling, it makes an excelent after dinner toast...explaining how good it is to
be around good friends and "solid" people. If only I could remember it...
Tis the season to be jolly, and I'd love to be able to recite it this Xmas.
Thanks in anticipation
Mark A Gregory
In time all these memories will be lost, like tears in rain.
Stephanie Smith
MarkAGr wrote:
> As a youth I had a copy of "Captain Paraletic And The Brown Ale Cowboys."
> There's one track I'd like the words for, and I was wondering if anyone could
> help me ... especially Mike if he's listening ....
>
>If only I could remember it...
Well, here's another song Mike Harding is known for which I'd like to
get hold of: "Uncle Joe's Mint Balls." They are a real product and are
now being sold in the US, but part of their charm was (when I was living
in Scotland twenty-odd years ago) Mike's song. I can remember all but a
line. It starts out:
"Uncle Joe's Mint Balls, keep you all aglow.
Give 'em to yer granny, and watch the bugger go..."
Anyone else out there know it?
Stephanie Smith
glen...@ix.netcom.com
Anewtest
>"Uncle Joe's Mint Balls, keep you all aglow.
>Give 'em to yer granny, and watch the bugger go..."
>
>Anyone else out there know it?
>
I have "Mrs. 'Ardin's kid" on vinyl. Just on my way out for New Year's
celebrations. I'll transcribe "uncle Joe's Mint Balls' next week & post.
Alex,
Helen Gibbons
Uncle Joe's Mintballs
Keep you all aglow
Give 'em to yer granny
And watch the bugger go
Away with coughs and sniffles
Take a few in hand
Suck 'em and see
And you'll agree
They're the best in all the land!
Helen Gibbons
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From the liner notes on Mrs 'ardin's Kid:
Uncle Joe's Mint Balls.........you can use them fro stripping paint,
cleaning your flue, removing unwanted pubic hair from garden gnomes and you can
get a tortoise out of its shell in four seconds. They look great, like gherkins
with legs on, they make smashin' toys for dogs with no teeth.
There's a place in Wigan, a place you all should know,
a busy little factory where things are all a-go
they don't make jakes(?) or Eccles cakes, or things that stick on walls
but night and day they work away at Uncle Joe's Mint Balls.
Cause...
Uncle Joe's Mint Balls keep you all aglow
give 'em to your granny and watch the bugger go.
Away with coughs and sniffles, take a few in hand
Suck 'em and see, you'll agree , they're the best in all the land
Me dad has always wanted curly hair on his bald head
Try an Uncle Joe's Mint Ball, that's what the doctor said.
So he got an Uncle Joe's Mint Ball and sucked it all night long
When he got up next morning, he'd hairs all over his tongue
'Cause...
We gave some to the coalman's horse as it was stood in't road
It gave a cough and buggered off with it's cart and load
It ran on to the racecourse, going like a bird
Covered the track in nutty slack and come first, second and third.
'Cause...
Me uncle Albert passed away with ale upon the brain
The doctor said that he were dead, and might never walk again.
So they gave the corpse an Uncle Joe, then started back aghast
'cause the corpse got up and ran t'pub and spent the insurance blast.
'cause...
I had a girl, her name was May'n passion she were lackin'
I fed her on whiskey to make her frisky, and still she won't get crackin'.
So I gave her an Uncle Joe's Mint Ball to get her all aglow
Now she walks the streets of Wigan, lookin' for Uncle Joe!
'Cause...
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I guess they couldn't be sold in North America without a *lot* of disclaimers.
Alex
Chris Timson
Anewtest <anew...@aol.com> writes
>I guess they couldn't be sold in North America without a *lot* of disclaimers.
>
>Alex
Funnily enough, the last Uncle Joe's Mint Balls we have seen prior to
buying some in Southport last week was at the home of a friend in
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, last October. It seems that Greg had bought a
whopping great jar of them at some sort of British exhibition. They are
probably easier to get in the US than in the South of England because
Uncle Joe won't distribute down here :-(( (we know of one shop in Bath
desperately trying to get supplies but failing).
Chris
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