Next EDF Drinks - Friday 5th Dec at The Wishing Well Inn

[david_carnell]

Moos Wrote:

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> I do a corking 'I Will Survive', accompanied by

> enthusiastic angry-at-men gestures spraying

> Bacardi Breezer over the assembled throng.

For some reason, I just don't believe you.

My rendition of "There's no one quite like Grandad" on the other hand is something to behold....

[Michael Palaeologus]

Mr MacGabhan would surely be singing "Fairytale of New York"?

[annaj]

But that's a duet Michael.

Are you volunteering to be Kirsty MacColl?

[Strawbs]

Jaws and I will be there for sure!! There wont be any singing on my part I can assure you for all of your sakes!!

x

[david_carnell]

Come on, not even your national anthem:

"I come from a land down-under"

[Michael Palaeologus]

I see CWALD as being more in Kirsty role.

[annaj]

Brilliant, David!

Don't think I've ever seen the video before. It's pleasingly literal,(Ah, the 80s. A simpler time.) well, apart from the end with the women whipping the coffin bearers...

[david_carnell]

Indeed.Who would have thought the line "....vegemite sandwich" would require the appearance of aforementioned sandwich so viewers would grasp the concept? Answers on a postcard marked "Aussies are two cans short of a six-pack" please.

[karter]

Wow, glad to see my choice of pub being chosen, i may even make it to this for once.

[Strawbs]

DC - sheer brilliance! I loved that song when I was a kid and secretly still do.. AFter a few sherbets if that song came on who knows, you might have to hold me back!! ;-)

[Moos]

Big-up d_c for posting that video, enjoyed it immensely.

Did anyone else think 'Oh, it's a clarinet, I did wonder!'? Or is that hugely geeky? Also found the synchronised hopping over the dunes rather endearing.

So, what is the word at the end of the 2nd line of the chorus? "Where women glow and men - "? Plunder? Chunder? Put asunder?

edit - apparently 'adunder' isn't a word.

[david_carnell]

Plunder.

"Where beer does flow and men chunder" is the 2nd/4th chorus.

[Strawbs]

Traveling in a fried-out combie

On a hippie trail, head full of zombie

I met a strange lady, she made me nervous

She took me in and gave me breakfast

And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?

Where women glow and men plunder?

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

You better run, you better take cover."

Buying bread from a man in Brussels

He was six foot four and full of muscles

I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"

He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich

And he said,

"I come from a land down under

Where beer does flow and men chunder

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

You better run, you better take cover."

Lying in a den in Bombay

With a slack jaw, and not much to say

I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me

Because I come from the land of plenty?"

And he said,

"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)

Where women glow and men plunder?

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

You better run, you better take cover."

[bob]

WW it is then.

Bob S

[Michael Palaeologus]

So, EDF Choir's first performance at the WW then?

[Bellenden Belle]

Practically my local, so it would be rude not to!

And after a few gins, I might do a mean "Big Spender" for these credit crunch times....

[jumpinjackflash]

Right I'm coming this time - be first ED drinky poos for me. Will I have to wear a name badge?

[KalamityKel]

No but a santas outfit is a must :-D

[jumpinjackflash]

I would if it was around mid-december! In fact - i think we should all go in Fancy Dress!

[Sharon_H]

Going by photos from Hoopers, I think there may have been a spying mission tonight.

Good idea. >:D<

[SeanMacGabhann]

busted!

It wasn't a spying mission - we were in the area sampling several pubs Sharon - but now I'm trying to figure which one you were

[????]

Sean I can't believe you were sampling severa pubs:)-D

[SeanMacGabhann]

blame Carnell. I do...

[Sharon_H]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> busted!

>

> It wasn't a spying mission - we were in the area

> sampling several pubs Sharon - but now I'm trying

> to figure which one you were

Aha, I knew it!

I was dying to ask, but I was feeling a little shy.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Shame - we don't bite. And by that stage of the evening we weren't even embarrasing ourselves yet. Presumably see you in a few weeks tho?