1st time i have heard this song...this is typical of any town in the 60`s and 70`s and unfortunately nowadays. words to songs meant so much in those days
In those days you did'nt have much - you're imagination provided you're games, every tree hid something to be discovered and people were happy, you strived for more but I'd go back to the 60s and 70s just to take pleasure in the little things.
I can remember my mother singing this to me and my sister when we were growing up in Wavertree (early 70s) Would give all I own to have her sing it again. No matter where I roam, Liverpool never leaves me
I can remember my mother singing this to me and my sister when we were growing up in Wavertree (early 70s) Would give all I own to have her sing it again. No matter where I meroam, Liverpool never leaves
"jam tats" - ? I've never heard this expression & google just seems to keep referring to tattoo web sites. Is it just a tatty knot of hair caused by getting a bit of jam stuck in it?
@BloomingtonChildCare Thanks for the reply BCC. I'd forgotten I'd put this question here. I got another answer too you might be interested in. There is a reply on another youtube page (google~ Liverpool Lullaby Alcester, Warwickshire April 28th 1990 ~) from the man himself -Stan Kelly, where he is singing a slightly 'jumbled'* version. (*see comment on the page!)
lovely song by cilla,was a b side to her 69 hit conversations or maybe surround yourself with sorrow,this song as with many other b sides and album tracks were played on the radio at the time,i was that mucky kid in the 70s,climbing trees,getting into scrapes,making fun for yourselves and going on adventures,you were out all day enjoying your childhood,then you came home at all hours-unaware your mother was worried sick,and a jam butty and bed before your dad got in,happy days,love you cilla..
i love cilla black her voice in her young year and still now is so sweet and this is my fave song of them all this is a classic song an the best part of it is her scouser acent shine right through it hahaha classic! x
Absolutely love this song, and the pictures go with it well. That was then, not now for any of you out there who thinks this is representative of Liverpool now. Its a fab place and I am very proud to be living here.
I love this song, my mum used to sing it to me. PLEASE listen to my version that i just finished recording of this song. It's only 2 verses but I think it works. To listen type in ALEX KINGSHOTT into GOOGLE and click on my SOUNDCLOUD music page. LIVERPOOL LULLABY is at the TOP of the songs.
Great, telling pictures and such a beautiful song. I first heard it sung by Judy Collins on her famous album, "In My Life." The present singer performs it in a very moving way. Thanks for posting!
I was born in Liverpool in forties and remember how hard it was but we where happy with what we had. My kids and grandkids dont seem to be as happy with all the modern things they have. Tom.
Somehow I have a feeling these days are returning. We didn't get very far away from that way off life, for those that managed it, best of luck. For those that didn't, life is still hard. I managed to get up of my backside ,move away from home, and now lead a very comfortable life, but I will aways remember my start in life.
I remember it well, lovely song.....but it just reminds me of how lucky I was that my father was not a brutal drunkard, like so many of my schoolfriends who had, along with their mothers, to suffer beatings everynight when the pubs shut. Drunken bullies look in the mirror and see the coward that you really are.
people forget how hard it was growing up in the sixties and seventies. although it was hard it was good because we all had the same upbringing. all our mums and dads had the same money so there wasnt the class divide there is now.
well to allwho have commented am so glad that most like the vid, it was one my 1st trys at pics and music please keep all the comments coming it lovly to hear wht every one who hears this song means to them and there memories of times gone by thank you all wolfgoddess x
Growing up in West derby Liverpool my dear old Mum would sing this to me when she thought I came home messy. Thanks for reviving so many good memories
A BIG TA dere, la's for all yer comment, like. & esp. to wolfie for posting it. I'm Stan Kelly wot wrote the Lullaby back in the 60s. The original Mucky Kid is my son David, just turned 50! I was born in Pitt Street off London Rd in, wait for it, 1929. Many think I'm DEAD. But enough of me for now.
SCOUSERS OF DE WERLD UNITE!
Stan Kelly-Bootle (google this, my current pen-name)
You wrote this? - Wow! I'm honoured to make contact. You should be well proud, matey.. (Just hope you didn't really give the wee nipper a belt after the boozers closed, ya bastard!)
I remember Cilla's version from when I was kid, but best of the lot, IMO, was the Ian Campbell folk group's take... total tearjerker. Keep well - from an (adopted) Scouser in Speke..
chaps as a cockney who with his mum and sisters lived this little ditty,and without irony was put to bed by my mum singing it to us.she left when i was 6yo..and i left at 13yo,that even now people have to live this even now is the pity,not the choice of pic's or cilla singing it..mugs.
to Tango15: I have a copy of her album In My Life on vinyl. I fell in love with her interpretation of this song. i had never heard it before. I had never really listened to Judy Collins before. I would listen to it over and over...very touching. I don't think someones ability to connect in a soulful way has anything to do with where their from. Born in the USA is a lame song.
comment continued so be thank ful for what you have got, when you see some thing like that and stop picking, and if your concerned about how people live, help stop the rot and do something about it, OH am a scouser thank you very much, and i know what it is like to live with nothing, so dont tell me wht it is like to live in poverty, but i got off my arse, and done some thing aboutit.
TO NABZ AND CLOGGERHEAD CAN YOU NOT BOTH READ YOU, I have never said they are pictures of Liverpool, they are pictures used to represent an era when people didnt have much, and yes in some parts of liverpool and many other areas of the world,guess there are some people still living in places like that but the media dont show that,
nabz told you your a manc. And if you think all those pictures are from our city you must be thick. And good old cilla take her with you to manchester, she's a top tory. Tarbuck as well... Ya manc.
'Cilla' is a Judas! She talks with a very large plum in her gob too. Read Ricky Tomlinson's autobiography for the truth....and don't get me started on that gobshite Tarbuck! They should both look to Ken Dodd for an example of how to spread the love.
hi wolfgodessi live in robards road anfeild and your pictures remind me about the misery we lived in i must say liverpool hsas gone even worse now hasnt it yet manchester is a vibrant city and we are the capital of culture i think not
2) Very few of those pictures were taken in Liverpool. It looks like the US to me. We don't do bridges in Liverpool, and like the rest of the UK, we don't have buses like that What a sham!!
tango thank you for your comment, never ever said that the pictures used where ever of liverpool, they are used to present a time when poverty was strif and people didnt have much and I have replied to that same q a while back, and no am not an american am a scouser and proud
tango spltting hairs arnt you,you only have to look on the internet to see old pictures of liverpool ,the squalor and the slums ,the pictures in the vid,even if not all liverpool ,is not far off what it was like
I was born 1937 I lived in Sherdley Street, off Crown Street almost in the town centre
although I pine for those bygone days they were hard, this song opens images in my mind of gas lighting in one room, outside toilets and cooking on an open fire, yet for all the hardships i miss the people of that time most, they are the heart of a city, I can almost smell the soot when I hear this song!!!
thank you hun for your comment, yes you like my mum could tell a tale or 2 about days gone by, was brought up in the early 50s so i know wht it was like but you will have had a lot less than i did thank you for commenting
my grandad also worked on princes landing stage between the wars ,tying up the liners and boats, got a photo somewhere of king george V and queen mary coming off a ship there ,with my grandad by the ramp, got several royal liverpool humane shipwreck society awards for jumping in the mersey rescuing people who had fallen in, one of them was a 2nd of january, imagine that with that current to ,thats what he was like
i was born in 59, my grandparents were from rock ferry and new ferry,used to go over on the ferry from woodside when i was a kid,get the new brighton ferry from the pier head,a lot more ships tied up at princes landing stage,liverpool,trips to lewis,,s going to the match up scotty road,the knocked down terraced houses,the bomb sites still,in the 70s going to walton rd for a pair of fleming jeans,love liverpool and birkenhead ,changed a lot but still the best place in the world
thank you to for your lovly remenicance its lovly to hear others who may have had simler childhoods please every one who as replyed please keep them coming thank you all
A superb video and great choice of song , vid showing times past and hard times at that but in a funny way people were a lot happier almost everyone was in the same boat without the modern day pressure of keeping up with the jones's.
Thanks so much for posting this beatiful song. I used to sing it to my disabled son when he was little and he couldn't sleep (so many sleepless nights!!) hes now 13 and sleeps well but still loves me singing it to him. I also used to sing it to my now grown up boys when they were little. It touches me everytime.
I have loved this song for a long time. Born in the early 60s and being a teenager in the 70s I was very jealous of some kids' designer gear - probably M&S then. We weren't rich but we had imagination and we rarely bored. My two are bored if they have to use their imagination!
yes i have to agree with you as my dear mum is always saying kids to day they dont know how lucky they are then she will go in to her fav subject when we where kids we had nothing we where lucky if we got a bit bread and dripping for are supper or we go bed with out any thing to eat cos me mam couldnt afford it how right she is but also how sad to have lived like that thank you
The lyrics to this song were sent to me from a very dear, special friend a former lover. I have just shared this song with her. Myself I was born in Belfast Northern Ireland in much the same poverty (1960). As a two and a half year old, me and my family immigrated half way around the World to New Zealand. I am 47 years old now and the pull to return home gets stronger everyday.
thank you for your comment am sure the pull for home is very strong it always will be you never for get your roots and at the moment belfast is really coming up in the world i hear thank you glad you enjoyed the vid
thank you, although i used pictures of liverpool my pictures where randonly selected to try and represent the time and era of the music choosen, i do hope you enjoyed watching it
well hi scouse, bett he was working in cammel leards in birkenhead over the water my dad worked there to in the 60s yep we proberbly have gorra lorr in common where yer wanna start the pier heard ferry across the mersey the beatles, ma edgys lol and of couse the legs of man lol any way fancy a chat gissa bell take care xx
My previous comments reflect George Burns quote on his childhood; "We were very poor but we didn't know it." Then poverty meant un-holed footwear, now its not having the right designer label with the mass media pushing imagery and peer pressure relating to cosmetism rather than functionality. They all know what they're missing now.
Thesong is so brilliant because of it's reflective apolitical nature without any "In The Ghetto" style preaching. A portrait in words.
yes there is so much want want want to day that as my mum would say you dont know how lucky you are today lol and it is so true life was very hard them days thanks again
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I remember this boy. Proper little scruff he was
Poopingbotham 1 week ago
I remember this boy. Proper little scruff he was
Poopingbotham 1 week ago
I remember this boy. Proper little scruff he was
Poopingbotham 1 week ago
1st time i have heard this song...this is typical of any town in the 60`s and 70`s and unfortunately nowadays. words to songs meant so much in those days
andy281069 2 weeks ago
Cilla Black is a Tory. Scouser? No. Tosser? Yes.
Mugfungus 1 month ago
In those days you did'nt have much - you're imagination provided you're games, every tree hid something to be discovered and people were happy, you strived for more but I'd go back to the 60s and 70s just to take pleasure in the little things.
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I can remember my mother singing this to me and my sister when we were growing up in Wavertree (early 70s) Would give all I own to have her sing it again. No matter where I roam, Liverpool never leaves me
redweb64 2 months ago
I can remember my mother singing this to me and my sister when we were growing up in Wavertree (early 70s) Would give all I own to have her sing it again. No matter where I meroam, Liverpool never leaves
redweb64 2 months ago
i'm only 18 but i really like this song. it has such a sad melody.
MissLingLing1087 3 months ago
"jam tats" - ? I've never heard this expression & google just seems to keep referring to tattoo web sites. Is it just a tatty knot of hair caused by getting a bit of jam stuck in it?
richeadey 3 months ago
@richeadey "jam tarts in your hair"
yes a bit of jelly stuck in a tangle
BloomingtonChildCare 2 weeks ago
@BloomingtonChildCare Thanks for the reply BCC. I'd forgotten I'd put this question here. I got another answer too you might be interested in. There is a reply on another youtube page (google~ Liverpool Lullaby Alcester, Warwickshire April 28th 1990 ~) from the man himself -Stan Kelly, where he is singing a slightly 'jumbled'* version. (*see comment on the page!)
richeadey 2 weeks ago
@BloomingtonChildCare strawberry jam tatts (Tatty heads - tangled hair) its is not tarts !!
Jacquiminns 1 week ago
Made me cry......
Whitecloud4412 3 months ago
Very nice pics and havent heard that song for a long time. Made me feel quite nostalgic X
liverpoolboxingbaby 5 months ago
omg my uncle used to sing this to me :') i love Liverpool, makes everywhere else look shit :')
godieinafirenow 5 months ago
Once upon a time ... my Grand Daughter Juliette was a mucky kid.
Now today ... she's a little lady! God Bless Th Queen! And Cilla too!
BigIronOnHipMan2 5 months ago
lovely song by cilla,was a b side to her 69 hit conversations or maybe surround yourself with sorrow,this song as with many other b sides and album tracks were played on the radio at the time,i was that mucky kid in the 70s,climbing trees,getting into scrapes,making fun for yourselves and going on adventures,you were out all day enjoying your childhood,then you came home at all hours-unaware your mother was worried sick,and a jam butty and bed before your dad got in,happy days,love you cilla..
faltskog36abba 6 months ago
On my first ever album :)
mulattokid 6 months ago
i love cilla black her voice in her young year and still now is so sweet and this is my fave song of them all this is a classic song an the best part of it is her scouser acent shine right through it hahaha classic! x
xxleannebabyxx 6 months ago
Absolutely love this song, and the pictures go with it well. That was then, not now for any of you out there who thinks this is representative of Liverpool now. Its a fab place and I am very proud to be living here.
evannin 7 months ago
This is one of the Few Songs that I like sang by Cilla. It takes me back so close to my heart. I knew a few kids like this.
radiolissant 7 months ago
Luv it,the biz.Come on Cilla.
ronnieheyes 8 months ago
Thanks for posting this piece of history!
The times and circumstances may change, but the content does not.
It remains, all over the human world.
cocochanelleke 8 months ago
I love this song, my mum used to sing it to me. PLEASE listen to my version that i just finished recording of this song. It's only 2 verses but I think it works. To listen type in ALEX KINGSHOTT into GOOGLE and click on my SOUNDCLOUD music page. LIVERPOOL LULLABY is at the TOP of the songs.
MrAkbvigilant 11 months ago
@MrAkbvigilant Alright, I will.
lu4y4pants 3 months ago
Great, telling pictures and such a beautiful song. I first heard it sung by Judy Collins on her famous album, "In My Life." The present singer performs it in a very moving way. Thanks for posting!
meltzerboy 11 months ago
@meltzerboy
Lovely song... a vivid, moving chronicle. THANK YOU!
CurzonRoad 11 months ago
@CurzonRoad please listen to my 4 verse version of this great song. Search Alex Kingshott Liverpool Lullaby into Google. Cheers
MrAkbvigilant 11 months ago
all you from liverpool you are graet from stoke or one
kirstykarnage 1 year ago
i come frome stoke but i had a mate from liverpool god blees mate
kirstykarnage 1 year ago
i come frome stoke but i had a mate from liverpool god blees mate
kirstykarnage 1 year ago
i come frome stoke but i had a mate from liverpool god blees
kirstykarnage 1 year ago
my grand father was born in Liverpool 1870, I wish I had knew him better.
lambertroberts 1 year ago
my grand father was born in Liverpool 1870, I wish I had new him better.
lambertroberts 1 year ago
i remember my mum singing this to me years ago many thanx so many good memories
xxkil 1 year ago
wow boss lar peace n love to all
davylar1 1 year ago
go on wolf [scouse n proud] were the best lar l8
davylar1 1 year ago
tango sort ya head out lar
listen to the tune.the vid represents the era
boss bosss boss lar
davylar1 1 year ago
just wonderful.... i'm crying buckets
rhylmark 1 year ago
brings a tear to me eye lar boss lar x
davylar1 1 year ago
I was born in Liverpool in forties and remember how hard it was but we where happy with what we had. My kids and grandkids dont seem to be as happy with all the modern things they have. Tom.
TomMines 1 year ago
Somehow I have a feeling these days are returning. We didn't get very far away from that way off life, for those that managed it, best of luck. For those that didn't, life is still hard. I managed to get up of my backside ,move away from home, and now lead a very comfortable life, but I will aways remember my start in life.
inisk 1 year ago
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paulrawes 11 months ago
Like David I too was born in the Dingle during the late 50's.
Those pics certainly bring back memories.
Well done Wolf.
Conny11121 1 year ago
I remember it well, lovely song.....but it just reminds me of how lucky I was that my father was not a brutal drunkard, like so many of my schoolfriends who had, along with their mothers, to suffer beatings everynight when the pubs shut. Drunken bullies look in the mirror and see the coward that you really are.
dreadnought99 1 year ago
people forget how hard it was growing up in the sixties and seventies. although it was hard it was good because we all had the same upbringing. all our mums and dads had the same money so there wasnt the class divide there is now.
grizwaldrob 1 year ago
rock on cilla
neillconnor 1 year ago
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leahmhaines61 1 year ago
A beautiful song, sung beautifully
chris276100 1 year ago
Love it ! so right!
kinderfeld666 1 year ago
NEARLY 50 YRS SINCE THIS WAS RECORDED................NO CHANGE.
1doctoma 1 year ago
just been to see 'One night in istanbul' play and actress sang this in the bar at the end - great show by the way.
TheMerseyBoy 1 year ago
Up Liverpool from Dublinx
mairia1 1 year ago
good suff need more like this
Shug52 1 year ago
It's lovely, brings a tear to your eye xx
viviegor 1 year ago
its boss just boss
tango sort ya head out
this song is for evy1 to njoy
i was born n bread in the dingle
ihope yaz all love this tune
absolute class
thedavidstrikesagain 2 years ago
@thedavidstrikesagain ta david glad yer liked it
wolfgoddess48 2 years ago
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redcrowdemon 2 years ago
well to allwho have commented am so glad that most like the vid, it was one my 1st trys at pics and music please keep all the comments coming it lovly to hear wht every one who hears this song means to them and there memories of times gone by thank you all wolfgoddess x
wolfgoddess48 2 years ago
Omgshh! I'm 14 and my mum used to sign this to my when i was little,, ohh good times :') x
lusciouslipslivy14 2 years ago
Growing up in West derby Liverpool my dear old Mum would sing this to me when she thought I came home messy. Thanks for reviving so many good memories
DTRMJI66 2 years ago
West derby?, you were posh! lol.
glamfoxbuster 2 years ago
Definately Glamfoxbuster! We were the envy of the city. lol
DTRMJI66 2 years ago
A BIG TA dere, la's for all yer comment, like. & esp. to wolfie for posting it. I'm Stan Kelly wot wrote the Lullaby back in the 60s. The original Mucky Kid is my son David, just turned 50! I was born in Pitt Street off London Rd in, wait for it, 1929. Many think I'm DEAD. But enough of me for now.
SCOUSERS OF DE WERLD UNITE!
Stan Kelly-Bootle (google this, my current pen-name)
skellybootle 3 years ago
You wrote this? - Wow! I'm honoured to make contact. You should be well proud, matey.. (Just hope you didn't really give the wee nipper a belt after the boozers closed, ya bastard!)
I remember Cilla's version from when I was kid, but best of the lot, IMO, was the Ian Campbell folk group's take... total tearjerker. Keep well - from an (adopted) Scouser in Speke..
redcrowdemon 2 years ago
Memories. Takes me back to when I was a scruffy mucky kid.
RoryBhoy1957 3 years ago
Ahaha, you Irish and your slang.
mmrempen 3 years ago
chaps as a cockney who with his mum and sisters lived this little ditty,and without irony was put to bed by my mum singing it to us.she left when i was 6yo..and i left at 13yo,that even now people have to live this even now is the pity,not the choice of pic's or cilla singing it..mugs.
wearelegion88 3 years ago
Not our problem, the song is for Scousers, your family problems have nothing to do with this - we all have family problems,
tango15 2 years ago
this song isnt just for scousers
its for every1
its class
fro a born n bread scouser from toxteth
north hill st
thedavidstrikesagain 2 years ago
Most, if not all of these pics have nothing to do with Liverpool.
admanphoto 3 years ago
it would be lovely if someone could post the version of this song by Judy Collins
mmmoksha 3 years ago
Mmmoksha: Judy sings my Lullaby on her great CD IN MY LIFE. Quite a thrill to share tracks with Lennon/Macca, Brecht/Weil, L Cohen etc
It wasn't on iTunes when I last looked. Suspect it's some Copyright wrangle.
Stan Kelly
skellybootle 2 years ago
Why? Judy Collins is American. This is an English song. How about Cliff Richard signing 'Born in the USA?'
tango15 2 years ago
to Tango15: I have a copy of her album In My Life on vinyl. I fell in love with her interpretation of this song. i had never heard it before. I had never really listened to Judy Collins before. I would listen to it over and over...very touching. I don't think someones ability to connect in a soulful way has anything to do with where their from. Born in the USA is a lame song.
mmmoksha 2 years ago
comment continued so be thank ful for what you have got, when you see some thing like that and stop picking, and if your concerned about how people live, help stop the rot and do something about it, OH am a scouser thank you very much, and i know what it is like to live with nothing, so dont tell me wht it is like to live in poverty, but i got off my arse, and done some thing aboutit.
wolfgoddess48 3 years ago
TO NABZ AND CLOGGERHEAD CAN YOU NOT BOTH READ YOU, I have never said they are pictures of Liverpool, they are pictures used to represent an era when people didnt have much, and yes in some parts of liverpool and many other areas of the world,guess there are some people still living in places like that but the media dont show that,
wolfgoddess48 3 years ago
nabz told you your a manc. And if you think all those pictures are from our city you must be thick. And good old cilla take her with you to manchester, she's a top tory. Tarbuck as well... Ya manc.
cloggerhoo 3 years ago
omg i love this song my mum used 2 sing this 2 me when i was a lil girl thanks 4 puttin on
graftonqueen 3 years ago 3
'Cilla' is a Judas! She talks with a very large plum in her gob too. Read Ricky Tomlinson's autobiography for the truth....and don't get me started on that gobshite Tarbuck! They should both look to Ken Dodd for an example of how to spread the love.
meoldchina69 3 years ago
hi wolfgodessi live in robards road anfeild and your pictures remind me about the misery we lived in i must say liverpool hsas gone even worse now hasnt it yet manchester is a vibrant city and we are the capital of culture i think not
nabzdabz 3 years ago
Wow, I thought this song was at least a little bit faster, that's how I know the song, our singing teacher taught us it in school...
fayeEFC 3 years ago
wolfgoddess:
1) The correct English spelling is lulLaby!
2) Very few of those pictures were taken in Liverpool. It looks like the US to me. We don't do bridges in Liverpool, and like the rest of the UK, we don't have buses like that What a sham!!
3)Are you American by any chance?
tango15 3 years ago
tango thank you for your comment, never ever said that the pictures used where ever of liverpool, they are used to present a time when poverty was strif and people didnt have much and I have replied to that same q a while back, and no am not an american am a scouser and proud
wolfgoddess48 3 years ago
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cocochanelleke 8 months ago
tango spltting hairs arnt you,you only have to look on the internet to see old pictures of liverpool ,the squalor and the slums ,the pictures in the vid,even if not all liverpool ,is not far off what it was like
TheMightOfTheEnglish 3 years ago
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cocochanelleke 8 months ago
@cocochanelleke
That has to be one of funniest comments on YouTube. ignorant or SUMMIT! lmfao.
To all those who have commented on my comments, wolfgoddess48 and I have discussed this privately and the matter is closed.
tango15 8 months ago
@tango15
Thanks for your reply, I'll remove my comment. Glad to hear the summit made you laugh, though!
;)
cocochanelleke 8 months ago
Great
thecuz84 3 years ago
I was born 1937 I lived in Sherdley Street, off Crown Street almost in the town centre
although I pine for those bygone days they were hard, this song opens images in my mind of gas lighting in one room, outside toilets and cooking on an open fire, yet for all the hardships i miss the people of that time most, they are the heart of a city, I can almost smell the soot when I hear this song!!!
Terry
TEL6045 3 years ago
thank you hun for your comment, yes you like my mum could tell a tale or 2 about days gone by, was brought up in the early 50s so i know wht it was like but you will have had a lot less than i did thank you for commenting
wolfgoddess48 3 years ago
my grandad also worked on princes landing stage between the wars ,tying up the liners and boats, got a photo somewhere of king george V and queen mary coming off a ship there ,with my grandad by the ramp, got several royal liverpool humane shipwreck society awards for jumping in the mersey rescuing people who had fallen in, one of them was a 2nd of january, imagine that with that current to ,thats what he was like
TheMightOfTheEnglish 3 years ago
i was born in 59, my grandparents were from rock ferry and new ferry,used to go over on the ferry from woodside when i was a kid,get the new brighton ferry from the pier head,a lot more ships tied up at princes landing stage,liverpool,trips to lewis,,s going to the match up scotty road,the knocked down terraced houses,the bomb sites still,in the 70s going to walton rd for a pair of fleming jeans,love liverpool and birkenhead ,changed a lot but still the best place in the world
merseyside 3 years ago
thank you to for your lovly remenicance its lovly to hear others who may have had simler childhoods please every one who as replyed please keep them coming thank you all
wolfgoddess48 3 years ago
A superb video and great choice of song , vid showing times past and hard times at that but in a funny way people were a lot happier almost everyone was in the same boat without the modern day pressure of keeping up with the jones's.
trichoone 3 years ago
Thanks so much for posting this beatiful song. I used to sing it to my disabled son when he was little and he couldn't sleep (so many sleepless nights!!) hes now 13 and sleeps well but still loves me singing it to him. I also used to sing it to my now grown up boys when they were little. It touches me everytime.
bluevangirl 3 years ago
thanks for posting this. I've loved the song for years and the pictures are great...
Manorette 4 years ago 4
I have loved this song for a long time. Born in the early 60s and being a teenager in the 70s I was very jealous of some kids' designer gear - probably M&S then. We weren't rich but we had imagination and we rarely bored. My two are bored if they have to use their imagination!
andyfax 4 years ago
What's Cilla like pronoucing er H's with er telphone voice!
thekidfromkenny 4 years ago
dont really like cilla she 2brash not very good singer either but this is her stairway to heaven
DissyDissy 4 years ago
Beautiful song. Times were hard but we made the best of it. Kids have got it too easy these days.
bleo34 4 years ago 2
yes i have to agree with you as my dear mum is always saying kids to day they dont know how lucky they are then she will go in to her fav subject when we where kids we had nothing we where lucky if we got a bit bread and dripping for are supper or we go bed with out any thing to eat cos me mam couldnt afford it how right she is but also how sad to have lived like that thank you
wolfgoddess48 4 years ago
The lyrics to this song were sent to me from a very dear, special friend a former lover. I have just shared this song with her. Myself I was born in Belfast Northern Ireland in much the same poverty (1960). As a two and a half year old, me and my family immigrated half way around the World to New Zealand. I am 47 years old now and the pull to return home gets stronger everyday.
jamonos 4 years ago
thank you for your comment am sure the pull for home is very strong it always will be you never for get your roots and at the moment belfast is really coming up in the world i hear thank you glad you enjoyed the vid
wolfgoddess48 4 years ago
the picture of the kids sitting on the railings is not liverpool. that bridge isnt in liverpool.
millerworld1 5 years ago
thank you, although i used pictures of liverpool my pictures where randonly selected to try and represent the time and era of the music choosen, i do hope you enjoyed watching it
wolfgoddess48 5 years ago
oh i still did enjoy it, its good that people still enjoy posting rarities like this, more please and well done.....from a scouser x
millerworld1 4 years ago
Wolfie: I posted a big TA a few minutes ago but exceeded the 500 werds, like and had to delete stuff
Just to add that yr images went well with my song. It IS sortof Universal for all mums & scruffy kids with scally dads!
Stan Kelly
born Stan Bootle
also writing as Stan Kelly-Bootle (to fool the Taxman)
skellybootle 3 years ago
That was a wonderful presentation of one of my favourite songs. Thankyou!!
Britlady1952 5 years ago
thank you glad you enjoyed it take care have a great day
wolfgoddess48 5 years ago
well hi scouse, bett he was working in cammel leards in birkenhead over the water my dad worked there to in the 60s yep we proberbly have gorra lorr in common where yer wanna start the pier heard ferry across the mersey the beatles, ma edgys lol and of couse the legs of man lol any way fancy a chat gissa bell take care xx
wolfgoddess48 5 years ago
Blimey I was born in Liverpool! 1959.
Looks like we've got a bit in common, my Dad was a ship builder
Scooby11 5 years ago
thank you yes we didnt have much but but what a great childhood lol we where allowed to be children then along with our great imaginations thank you
wolfgoddess48 5 years ago
What a wonderful Song & Video, I was born 1960 and had a wonderful Childhood, through we were poor but Happy.
BondVidMan 5 years ago
My previous comments reflect George Burns quote on his childhood; "We were very poor but we didn't know it." Then poverty meant un-holed footwear, now its not having the right designer label with the mass media pushing imagery and peer pressure relating to cosmetism rather than functionality. They all know what they're missing now.
Thesong is so brilliant because of it's reflective apolitical nature without any "In The Ghetto" style preaching. A portrait in words.
abelseeman 5 years ago
yes there is so much want want want to day that as my mum would say you dont know how lucky you are today lol and it is so true life was very hard them days thanks again
wolfgoddess48 5 years ago
.........but they all looked so happy and free and not a bit bored or defensive.
abelseeman 5 years ago
thank you for your comment
wolfgoddess48 5 years ago