Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Songs for Cabin Fever....

George of Whitelees sent me a little songbook several years ago. It's that auld Scots children's bus-riding ditty, "Oh ye cannae shove yer Granny aff the bus" sung to the tune of "She'll be comin round the mountain when she comes." (My guess is that "She'll be comin round the mountain" originally was sung to the tune of "Oh ye cannae shove yer Granny aff the bus.")  Whatever, it's a jolly old song, and it makes a good earworm for snowbound grannies.....

Oh ye cannae shove yer Granny aff the bus, (shove shove)
Oh ye cannae shove yer Granny aff the bus,
Ye cannae shove yer Granny
For she's yer Mammy's Mammy,
Ye cannae shove yer Granny aff the bus.

Ye can shove yer ither Granny aff the bus.
Ye can shove yer ither Granny aff the bus.
Ye can shove yer ither Granny
For she's yer Faither's Mammy
Ye can shove yer ither Granny aff the bus.

Ye can shove yer Uncle Wullie aff the bus.
Ye can shove yer Uncle Wullie aff the bus.
Uncle Wullie's like yer Faither
A harum-scarum blether,
Ye can shove yer Uncle Wullie aff the bus.

Ye can shove yer Auntie Maggie aff the bus.
Ye can shove Auntie Maggie aff the bus.
Auntie Meg's yer Faither's sister,
She's naethin' but a twister,
Ye can shove yer Auntie Maggie aff the bus.

But ye cannae shove yer Granny aff the bus.
O ye cannae shove yer Granny aff the bus.
O ye cannae shove yer Granny,
For she's yer Mammy's Mammy,
O ye cannae shove yer Granny aff the bus.

Chorus
Singing I will if you will, so will I
Singing I will if you will, so will I
Singing I will if you will
I will if you will
I will if you will, so will I

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:23 PM

    i WANT u on me bus. Cat

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  2. so you can shove me aff?? :)

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  3. I'm singing as loudly as I can.

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  4. shammy: it's a rollicking good song, dontcha think???

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  5. An electronic sign on the back of an off duty Lanarkshire bus said, "Aff hame" (off home). It made me smile.

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