Stuck in my head for ever now.......

We can always get a millionaire to shovel all the coal

Also part of UB40's "Red Red Wine" apparently. I couldn't figure out where I'd heard it before until Google saved me.

What the hell is that crap?

1980's lesbians were teh funnay.

Had no idea the words to "Red Red Wine" were ripped off from whatever this is. Kind of sad, really.

second headline greenlit with the word "monkey" in it in the last few hours. Some admin have a monkey fixation? heeheehee

I'm old, and I was 8 when that song first came out.

They over played it so much, that after a while, you just wanted to stick pencils in your ears, until they met each other.

That being said, this nightmarish version sucks the maggots from a dead dog's ass.
It reminded me of Bananarama meets Stomp.

Here's an Amazon preview of the original, and it's alot more fun.

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Oops, I found a couple of different versions on YouTube.

Here's an old TV performance of it.
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Better sound quality, but the video features some idiot dancing to it at the mall or something.
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It was derived from a "patty cake" song that little girls did at the time.
I think they also used to sing it while doing "Double Dutch" (not to be confused with the rudder of the same name).

I'm seriously surprised they haven't revived her other big hit, "The Name Game".

Amazing! Does the intellectual community know about this yet? It works with virtually ANY NAME, and that it should be considered classified information?

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D2T: Also part of UB40's "Red Red Wine" apparently. I couldn't figure out where I'd heard it before until Google saved me.


It's not really in the main lyrics as such, but comes from a reggae 'toast' near the end, and even then it uses only a line or two of it but the rhyming pattern is the same.

Originally a Neil Diamond song, which UB40 didn't know about - they copied another version by another reggae artist.

Neil Diamond performs it in a reggae styli in concerts now.


/damn, I bought the Belle Stars album when I was a kid
//Get off the lawn, or I'll hose ya!

I'll take the Tom Waits version please.

No joke
Hit the low note
We all go to heaven
In a little row boat

/Buck 65

Is it just me...

Or do they keep saying "fap fap!"?

2wheeljunkie: What the hell is that crap?

This.

pleaseleavemebe: I'll take the Tom Waits version please.

Ugh, same.

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Thats what most of us in the US know them for

Captain_Sissypants: What the fark?

Seconded.

When I see a music link that contains the words "Monkey," "Heaven" and a series of numbers, that's not the one I want to see.

Nine... ten... a big fat hen.

The name's Bender.

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Thats what most of us in the US know them for

thats where I know them from. thanks for saving me the trouble of actually looking it up myself.

Shine, shine, a Roosevelt dime,
All the way to Baltimore and runnin' outta time
Salvation Army seemed to wind up in the hole,
They all went to heaven in a little row boat.
Clap hands.

I heard Tom Waits' adaptation of parts of this lyric and assumed he wrote it.

Apparently the original is "The Clapping Song" by Shirley Ellis, circa 1965. I vaguely remember the Belle Stars, but not for this song...can't remember what tune it was, though.

Stephen King had an evil character chanting this in the novel Insomnia. He made it scary as fark.

Several thoughts way late because of the holiday.

1. What about the Cyndi Lauper version from True Colors?
2. Why no discussion about whether they are hot or not?
3. steamingpile Hey! Cyndi Lauper did that one too on True Colors.
4. Here is what they are really known for Link (new window) Bonus: Dressed in a manner appropriate for the band name.

The aforementioned Tom Waits version, for those with standards.

TommyymmoT: I'm old, and I was 8 when that song first came out.

They over played it so much, that after a while, you just wanted to stick pencils in your ears, until they met each other.

That being said, this nightmarish version sucks the maggots from a dead dog's ass.
It reminded me of Bananarama meets Stomp.

Here's an Amazon preview of the original, and it's alot more fun.

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As usual in music threads tommyymmot gets it right. Shirley Ellis pretty much does the definitive version. Don't much care for Tom Waits performance of it. Some people would enjoy a steaming pile of shiat if it came from Tom Waits, i guess.

LOL at the thought of someone liking Shirley Ellis and not liking Waits.

chickyraptor: LOL at the thought of someone liking Shirley Ellis and not liking Waits.

Funny I'm laughing out loud at a retard using the term "lol", especially one who cannot distinguish between preferring one artists performance of a particular song over another artists, and preferring one artist over another in the entirety of their work.