On 07/01/2014 15:42, canaldrifter wrote:
On 07/01/2014 11:57, Stanley Daniel de Liver wrote:
On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:28:31 -0000, shazzbat
wrote:

Just heard a Flanders and Swann song I hadn't heard for about 20
years or
more, so I googled the lyrics, given our current weather. Enjoy.

January brings the snow,
Makes your feet and fingers glow.

February's ice and sleet
Freeze the toes right off your feet.

Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wert not so unkind!

April brings the sweet spring showers,
On and on for hours and hours.

Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day.

June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops.

In July the sun is hot.
Is it shining? No, it's not.

August, cold and dank and wet,
Brings more rain than any yet.

Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood.

Then October adds a gale,
Wind and slush and rain and hail.

Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog.

Freezing wet December, then
Bloody January again!

Steve

Here's an accompanying moving picture of a gramophone record rotating
in time to the music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WujIzsn4ues



Wonderful! Now I'm going to have to learn it!

Tone

There's a bit of video about somewhere - it may be on Youtube - with
Flanders talking about this song.
He said that when they were first preparing to perform it on the BBC
many years earlier, the producer winced at the thought of them singing
the 'b' word. When they came to do the current performance the new
producer said, 'Can't you spice it up a bit?'

--
RG