Neil Innes - Accountancy Shanty

[pestlett]

'T was in my youth I ran away To accountancy one day, With pen and paper (colour and stud); Accountancy was in my blood. Oh scribble away, and balance the books, And sing an accountancy shanty. I chartered an accountant at the age of twenty-one. Oh scribble away, and balance the books, And sing an accountancy shanty. So raise a glass of medium dry sherry To the golden age of VAT. Oh scribble away, and balance the books, And sing an accountancy shanty.

[cookmoore]

Where's the rum?!

[CptEdwards]

@cookmoore all we got is medium dry sherry

[cookmoore]

@CptEdwards

hmmm...

[Unhalfbricked]

Sorry to be a party pooper, but shouldn't they be back in their offices brainlessly grinding away at piles of dull ledgers?

Oh, sorry - didn't realise it was their lunch hour...

[e2thesmooth]

@Unhalfbricked nah, must be a bank holiday - they'd work through their lunch hour :-P

[MagicAccent]

This is what accountancy does to people...

So sad.

[msstevie1951]

rocker53zero,you're right this is just nutty! LOL Donna xx

[BobMonkfish]

Python were always great for recycling. Some of the lines in this appear at the beginning of "The Meaning of Life", sung by the old men - more or less... "It's fun to charter an accountant, and sail the wide accountant-sea..."

[sirkrizten]

I LOVE THIS <3

[koakaipolani]

woah, sorry, my brother got on my account and said stupid things-I don't even know what this is! Sorry...delete them if you can, and I'll slap him for you.

[RocketDan21]

Was that Terry Jones (with umbrella) and Eric Idle (Playing accordian) too?

[PicoriKing]

It was Eric playing the accordion, but I dunno about the guy with the umbrella.

[Notebooked]

@RocketDan21 Definitely Eric Idle with the accordion, but I don't think that's Terry Jones. I saw that fellow with the umbrella some time in 'Slaves of Freedom' in one cut, smoking a cigar, but I don't know his name...

[julianveronica]

who is the lovely girl?

[graytart]

Actress Gwen Taylor

[julianveronica]

thanks.