"Combine-Harvester" song query
David Albert
Oh I've got a lovely Combine-Harvester
I'll give to you the key
Does anyone recognize this song? If so, who wrote it, and
where might I find a recording? And do you have any more words?
Thanks,
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David Albert | Illegitimi non carborundum est.
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ghost
>I'm looking for a song that starts
>
> Oh I've got a lovely Combine-Harvester
> I'll give to you the key
>
>
>Does anyone recognize this song? If so, who wrote it, and
>where might I find a recording? And do you have any more words?
>
Now wait a minute, this has got to be Melanie (Safka)'s Roller Skates
song, slightly changed:
"I've got a brand new pair of roller skates
you've got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and
try them out you see
I ain't (something something)
I've been all around the world
Some people say I do all right for a girl"
Some people said at the time ('70s) this was terribly double-entendre (sp)
for am radio...
As it stands, I don't think it *needed* a parody...
Bruce Hoover,Armstrong
> I'm looking for a song that starts
>
> Oh I've got a lovely Combine-Harvester
> I'll give to you the key
>
>
> Does anyone recognize this song? If so, who wrote it, and
> where might I find a recording? And do you have any more words?
I remember hearing something like that in about 1978 or so... it was
done by a group named The Worsels (sp?) who also had a paradoy of "La
Paloma Blanca" called "I am the Cider Drinker"
As for who wrote it?? don't know
it seems that the chorus continued something like:
I've got twenty acres,
You've got fourty-three,
Oh, I've got a brand new Combine-Harvester,
I'll give you the key.
Don't remember any verses.
Bruce Hoover
Paul J. Murphy
Oh, you sad person! ( :-] )
The song in question was released in the UK by a group called the Wurzels,
based on the Wurzel Gummidge series on TV, about a country scarecrow. It
is possibly one of the worst songs ever written, and still under copyright,
so PLEASE (please!please!) _don't_ post the words.......
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Lindsay F. Marshall
>> I'm looking for a song that starts
>>
>> Oh I've got a lovely Combine-Harvester
That's Brand New not lovely
>The song in question was released in the UK by a group called the Wurzels,
>based on the Wurzel Gummidge series on TV, about a country scarecrow. It
>is possibly one of the worst songs ever written, and still under copyright,
>so PLEASE (please!please!) _don't_ post the words.......
Surely they are named after the Mangelwurzel a much joked about
yokelish vegetable. Nothing to do with Wurzel Gummidge, excpet that's
why he was called that too.
L.
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Tim Keenan
>
> Oh I've got a lovely Combine-Harvester
> I'll give to you the key
>
>
>Does anyone recognize this song? If so, who wrote it, and
>where might I find a recording? And do you have any more words?
>
radio. It is a parody of "I've got a brand new pair of roller
skates", known officially, I believe, as "The Pushbike Song", by
Melanie, from ca. 1969. It was sung in a West Country (England)
dialect, but I can't remember who did it.--A faint possibility that
it was the Irish Rovers (later the Rovers) but I don't think so.
Anyone else?
Tim Keenan
Department of Forest Resources
UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK
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Daniel M. Rosenblum
( ghost ) writes:
>Now wait a minute, this has got to be Melanie (Safka)'s Roller Skates
>song, slightly changed:
>"I've got a brand new pair of roller skates/you've got a brand new key
> I think that we should get together and/try them out you see
>Some people said at the time ('70s) this was terribly double-entendre (sp)
>for am radio...
Ah, yes, the old lock-and-key metaphor! In A. L. Lloyd's
_Folk_Song_in_England_, in his wonderful section on bawdy
songs, you'll find a neat little comment about this one.
(Sorry, I don't have the book in front of me, or I'd type
the comment in verbatim.) It seems that one of the early
20th century English collectors of traditional folk song
(my memory is making vague hints that perhaps it was
Baring-Gould) had picked up a song from an old informant,
and was thanking God that the informant probably didn't
know what he was singing about, because his song had a
double entendre sexual reference. (The collector's
stereotyped ideas about the sexual intelligence of the
elderly are another joke, of course, but off the topic.)
And what, asks Lloyd in his telling of the story, was the
metaphor that got this collector so upset? It was nothing
but the lock-and-key metaphor, which, as Lloyd points out,
was in wide use in popular music, and he mentions a song
from the '30s by one of the pop singers of the time, only
I can't remember it. All of which I point out to say that
if it was acceptable in the '30s, I'm surprised to hear
that it might have been regarded as terribly risque for
AM radio in the '70s.
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William C. Gawne
So just to throw another tidbit into this discussion, I thought I'd mention
that back a few hundred years ago English jailers (gaolers?) were called
"screws" because the locks on the cells had to be screwed shut, and the key
was just a specially made screw.
So perhaps this relates the "lock and key" metaphor with the more vulgar
metaphor?
-Bill
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Robert Derrick
: but the lock-and-key metaphor, which, as Lloyd points out,
: was in wide use in popular music, and he mentions a song
: from the '30s by one of the pop singers of the time, only
: I can't remember it.
Mebbe this is it, although there is not much double 'e' about it:
Lock and Key
:written by Bessie Smith
:as performed by the Any Old Time String Band on Ladies Choice
I can see that you and me will have a terrible falling out
And no one at the barber's ball will know what it's all about
They'll hear a shot and see you duck, and when the smoke has cleared away
The band will climb from behind the stand, and then you'll hear me say
When I get home I'm gonna change my lock and key
When you get home you'll find an awful change in me
And if I don't change my mind, another thing you will find
That your baby, maybe's, got another baby, on the pole and line
You did your stuff so get yourself another doll
I stood it long enough so pack your little trunk and roll
I use to love you once, but you took and made a fool outa me
So when I get home I'm gonna change my lock and key
When I get home I'm gonna change my lock and key
When you get home you'll find a place where home used to be
And if I don't change my mind, another thing you will find
That your baby, maybe's, got another baby, just as good and kind
You cheated on me and that's a thing that made me sore
I'm gonna change my key, I'll get myself another door
As far as I'm concerned, you're a gypsy, you're homeless as a flea
'Cause when I get home I'm gonna change my lock and key
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And that is where the sweetest flowers bloom
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rob derrick ro...@cherry.cray.com
P OSMAN
I heard this song being used on the radio recently to advertise Coka
Cols's latest rip-off (sorry, I mean soft drink) I seem to remember the
first verse opened with:
I drove my tractor through your haystack last night.
OOO-Arrr, Oooo-Arrr
I threw my pitchfork at your dog to keep quiet
Oooo-Arrr, Oooo-arr....
But I can't remember any more. I believe my father bought the single
(ooops, Shouldn't have admitted that)
ghost
>In <1993Jun5.0...@das.harvard.edu> j...@endor.harvard.edu
>( ghost ) writes:
>>Some people said at the time ('70s) this was terribly double-entendre (sp)
>>for am radio...
>
>Ah, yes, the old lock-and-key metaphor! In A. L. Lloyd's
(article deleted)
>I can't remember it. All of which I point out to say that
>if it was acceptable in the '30s, I'm surprised to hear
>that it might have been regarded as terribly risque for
>AM radio in the '70s.
What made it '70s-risque was the 2nd sexual reference, later
in the verse I quoted.
All said, Melanie's song is light & cute & not at all laden with
leaden metaphors as are some other of the other 'risque' songs I've heard.
Daniel M. Rosenblum
ro...@cherry.cray.com (Robert Derrick) writes:
>Daniel M. Rosenblum (d...@andromeda.rutgers.edu) wrote:
>: but the lock-and-key metaphor, which, as Lloyd points out,
>: was in wide use in popular music, and he mentions a song
>: from the '30s by one of the pop singers of the time, only
>: I can't remember it.
>Mebbe this is it, although there is not much double 'e' about it:
> Lock and Key :written by Bessie Smith
[words deleted]
No, it definitely wasn't something by Bessie Smith, although
she certainly wrote her share of double entendre songs. First
of all, as Mr. Derrick points out, there's no double entendre
about it in this particular song; changing the lock & key means
just that. In the songs we're referring to the lock and key
are metaphors for . . . -- well, this is a family newsgroup,
and some people might be offended if I engaged in an act of
public sex education :-) :-) . The singer was also definitely
not of the Bessie Smith variety, but more like the species of
which Rudy Vallee, for instance, was a specimen.
David Kassover
...
>
>All said, Melanie's song is light & cute & not at all laden with
>leaden metaphors as are some other of the other 'risque' songs I've heard.
OTOH, there is Melanie's "Psychotherapy".
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ghost
>In article <1993Jun10.1...@das.harvard.edu> j...@endor.harvard.edu ( ghost ) writes:
>...
>>
>>All said, Melanie's song is light & cute & not at all laden with
>>leaden metaphors as are some other of the other 'risque' songs I've heard.
>
>OTOH, there is Melanie's "Psychotherapy".
awww...I can't remember any metaphors at all, there, just a
clear & simple statement of the bad Dr's theories....
SE GILCHRIST
: I'm looking for a song that starts
: Oh I've got a lovely Combine-Harvester
: I'll give to you the key
I've Got A Brand New Combine Harvester - was sung by the Wurzels in the
mid-70's. Virgin 1215AM are currently using it as an ad so it must still
be available. Sorry don't know the label as I can't find our record
libraries copy of it at the mo.
: Does anyone recognize this song? If so, who wrote it, and
: where might I find a recording? And do you have any more words?
: Thanks,
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: David Albert | Illegitimi non carborundum est.
: alb...@das.harvard.edu |
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Hugs, etc.
Sarah
Matthew Moore
>>>leaden metaphors as are some other of the other 'risque' songs I've heard.
>>
>>OTOH, there is Melanie's "Psychotherapy".
>awww...I can't remember any metaphors at all, there, just a
>clear & simple statement of the bad Dr's theories....
from memory....
Psychotherapy (Melanie Safka)
Oh sad is the masochism, and the vagaries of sex
that turns half the population into total nervous wrecks,
your analyst can cure you, long as you can pay the cheques,
as the id goes marching on!
ch:
glory, glory psyhotherapy!
glory, glory, psychotherapy!
as the id goes marching on! {yes its to the tune of John Brown}
do you drown your super-ego in a flood of alcohol?
do you go chasing after women till you're just about to fall?
heres the secret to your trouble, you're not having fun at all,
as the id goes marching on!
there was a man to whom it seemed his friend were all superior,
and this complex he imagined, made life drearier, and drearier,
till his analyst assured him: that he really _WAS_ inferior!
as the id goes marching on!
Freuds mystic world of meaning neednt have us mystified,
its really very simple what the psyche tries to hide,
a thing is a phallic symbol if its longer than its wide,
as the id goes marching on!
