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

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


--
It's a money /life balance.

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

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

On 07/01/14 11:28, 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!

Also found in ExZets - from URG, 'tis said.


--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

On 07/01/14 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:

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!

A lot of theirother stuff would mix well with folksiness -
♫ I'm a *G* -nu
♫ The Gas Man Cometh (One for you Tone!)

Look at "At the drop of a Hat"; "At the Drop of Another Hat"; "a
Bestiary". (Or very similar.)

--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:01:18 -0000, RustyHinge
wrote:

On 07/01/14 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:

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!

A lot of theirother stuff would mix well with folksiness -
♫ I'm a *G* -nu
♫ The Gas Man Cometh (One for you Tone!)

Look at "At the drop of a Hat"; "At the Drop of Another Hat"; "a
Bestiary". (Or very similar.)

There's some "tribute" stuff which is more bawdy from Armstrong and Miller
(see Ubend Brabbins and Fyfe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK6BQ...0B1691C183779C

(as close to the knuckle as they could get, so NSFW)

--
It's a money /life balance.

In message , shazzbat
writes
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.


I post the appropriate month's offering into our internal discussion
forum at jbex at the start of each month. Unfortunately I disunforget
them, but we had several amusing alternative suggestions for January. I
might see if I can find them tomorrow looks for hanky to tie a knot in


Adrian
--
To Reply :
replace "bulleid" with "adrian" - all mail to bulleid is rejected
Sorry for the rigmarole, If I want spam, I'll go to the shops
Every time someone says "I don't believe in trolls", another one dies.

"RustyHinge" wrote in message
...
On 07/01/14 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:

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!

A lot of theirother stuff would mix well with folksiness -
? I'm a *G* -nu
? The Gas Man Cometh (One for you Tone!)

That last was always a favourite in our house, as Dad was a gas man[1]. He
hated the song though, so naturally we all joined in as enthusiastically as
possible.

Steve

[1] For what was then the North Western Gas Board.

On 07/01/2014 18:01, RustyHinge wrote:
On 07/01/14 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:

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!

A lot of theirother stuff would mix well with folksiness -
♫ I'm a *G* -nu
♫ The Gas Man Cometh (One for you Tone!)

Look at "At the drop of a Hat"; "At the Drop of Another Hat"; "a
Bestiary". (Or very similar.)

The 47HP omnibus. Hold very tight please. Ding ding.

Tone

On Tue, 7 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!

Crilliant. Thanks for the reminder. I can still hear in my head, the
glee with which they sang the last line!

Pam in Bristol

In article , RustyHinge
writes:

On 07/01/14 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:

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!

A lot of theirother stuff would mix well with folksiness -
? I'm a *G* -nu
? The Gas Man Cometh (One for you Tone!)

I used to play "The Hippopotamus Song" at folk clubs and open mic
nights, along with "Dead Skunk" by Loudon Wainwright III and my own
"Save the Slug" when I wanted to do an animal-themed set.

--
Mike Fleming

On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:57:12 +0000, Mike Fleming
wrote in :

I used to play "The Hippopotamus Song" at folk clubs and open mic
nights, along with "Dead Skunk" by Loudon Wainwright III and my own
"Save the Slug" when I wanted to do an animal-themed set.

...and the dying fly?

(Only fair, you reminded me of "Save the Slug"!)

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. ] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

Mike Fleming said:

"Save the Slug"

Ooh. Nostalgia !


--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On 08/01/14 22:18, Ivan D. Reid wrote:

...and the dying fly?

The Fight of the Bumble Bee?

--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.