Category Archives: His Worship & The Pig

Words by Dave Boulton, music by Jeff Parton

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Now you’ve often heard mention that whisky is the drink of the great and the good
It’s apparently apt to make some people frisky – the way that it tastes I’m amazed that it could
Some say there’s a tang of the peat or the heather, the truth of the matter to me
Is regardless what’s used in the mash and the making it all ends up smelling and tasting like Wee
So take heed of these wise words of warning before you’re debased and destroyed.
And consider this … Continue reading →

Words By Dave Boulton April 2009
D Maj

If you ever at a loose end when you’re visiting up Stoke
Just get off down to Tunstall town past Shelton’s coal and coke
Up Pitts Hill there’s a public house that rare and fair and fine
Run by Miss Ida Alcock she’s Landlady at The Vine

Chorus
Well you wont get deep fried scampi and you wont get chicken and chips
But the beer is always crystal clear like Sunshine on your lips
And if you’re a rough-cut diamond or a legend in your … Continue reading →

Well the boys from Kerry and the boys from Derry and the girls from Dublin town
They played O’Connell’s and they sang O’Donnell’s and the Star of the County Down
They gave us Ireland’s glories and they played us there-and-back
And nothing mattered in the smoke and laughter but the music and the craic

Chorus:
There were slips and slides and reels besides, the brown ale and the black
And nothing mattered in the smoke and laughter but the music and the craic

Well we saw Duncannon and the mighty Shannon as she flowed down … Continue reading →

(To the tune of ‘Hal and Tow’)

Oh take care of your tootsies and they’ll take care of you-o
Cause playing footsie with PA’s a thing you shouldn’t do-o

SWOLLEN TOES, SAUSAGES IN ROWS
THEY CAME UP, MUCH TO HIS DISMAY -O
THROBBING THROUGH THE LONG DARK NIGHT, AND THROBBING THROUGH THE DAY-O
AND GOING FROM BLACK AND BLUE
TO OTHER INTERESTING SHADES-O

Now nails and toes need manicures to keep them neat and nice-o
But scissors are the thing, not speakers falling from great heights-o

Some piggies go to market and some piggies stay at home-o
Some piggies they get splattered into shards of splintered … Continue reading →

Chorus
How did we survive oh How did we survive
If you listen what they’re saying now we shouldn’t be alive
It’s a wonder that we made past the tender age of five
Oh how did we oh how did we survive

Well the paint on cots and beds was laced with zinc and lead
Which we swallowed chewed and sucked without a care
There were no safety caps or lids to deter enquiring kids
and no gates to stop you falling down the stairs.
We’d drink water from the hose till … Continue reading →

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Chorus:
Summer is gone, the year’s moving on
There’s mist on the water and shadows are long
leaves they are falling the wild geese are calling
The nights they are drawing and summer is gone

You came with the first golden promise of spring
and you stayed while the summer sun shone
and you’d only say you intended to stay
‘til the sun and the summer was gone

April’s soft rain caused the blossoms to bloom
and May brought the lengthening days
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By Dave Boulton

I’ll tell thee a sea-faring story
As told to me by my grandfather
Whose great great great great great great great granddad Tom
Helped Drake thrash the Spanish Armada

Down at Plymouth Sir Francis were playing at bowls
With the weather as fair as you’d like
Walter Raleigh were with him, now he’s best known to fame
As the man who invented the bike

Now Queen had give Francis a new set of bowls
He was trying out on the crown green
All in gold they’re inscribed with lions … Continue reading →