Flanders and Swann - The Gnu Song

[lightflower]

my parents had this and also At The Drop Of Another Hat.Immortal stuff!

[clutterbells]

My dad has this LP. Played many many times.

[TheAndraLe]

Whenever my family went on a road trip we listen to flanders and swann <3

[elephantarmy]

This was played to me (in car journeys mostly) when i was about 5 in '87 / '88 - only just realised this predates my birth by several decades!

[b555b1]

this is gnest song in the world

[DoodiePunk]

ag'nother g'nu, g'nash, k'now, w'ho's w'ho, g'no :D

[FinalFallenFantasy]

Please can someone tell me that my two friends and I are not the only seventeen year old girls who know this entire CD off by heart?

[steinwaygrande1]

@FinalFallenFantasy. No you are not the only two 17 year olds that know this off by heart.I first heard this in 1960 and still sing along to this from time to time, and many others that were wrtitten by Flanders and Swann. Theyw ere two of the greatest entertainters of the 20th Centurey

[FinalFallenFantasy]

@steinwaygrande1 Whoo we are not alone!

[toffsrule]

@FinalFallenFantasy i'm 15 and know the whole of this, at the drop of a hat AND at the drop of another hat, does that count? :D

[FinalFallenFantasy]

@toffsrule Whoo! Of course it counts!

[RobertHartlepool]

We used to listen to this for Music lessons at school

[crayzeehorse]

Very gnice!

[chiffmonkey]

A gnother gnu!

[Ichikawamama]

@RDR: if there's some theme here let us know, cos it's way over my head...

[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

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[frapestyle]

Haha. The first time I've heard a song with my town (Ashton-under-Lyne) mentioned! :-)

[boo66]

The old music-hall song 'Rawtenstall Annual Fair' also mentions fair Ashton!

[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

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[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

Subject: the end of the dollar that spells the rise of a new order

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[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

Subject: Bow time hard earned - Bowtime hard earned - Bowtime hard earned - Blue wonder

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War hero? And that gives your kin the OK for four years of talking b*****ks about someone else?

[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

Subject: restrict our own liberties - restrict our own liberties - parent vetting

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 tort rebel scion - rut - Scion libretto write - us err

[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

Subject: we must be more alert than ever

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[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

Subject: low interest rates to stay - low interest rates to stay

Anagram: Lettes sorority waste tan - Letts Tory irate - waste son

[samwellomar]

Subject: "In one of the bard's best thought out tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

Anagram: "To be or not to be? That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"

[MilesTaiIsPrower]

There are some things I shall never understand.

[samwellomar]

Lmfao bit random wasn't it xD Thought I'd join in xP

[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

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[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

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[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

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[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

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f**k!

[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

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Alderman is an ****hole! Serious Fraud? Exactly. Make him a Lord and put him out of harms way - allegedly

[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

Someone on Classic FM indicated the Ashes today and I believed them. Am I tired or what? THat was comes from starting them on various days of the week.

It aint till tomorrow?

Ah me!

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[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

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[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

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[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

Subject: in scotland northern ireland and wales - we could not go on being elephants on stage we could not go on being elephants on stage

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Bongo land? So true. So insulting!

lol

[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

I wished I could gnash my teeth at you - but I aint got any! teeth that is. lol

[ahern112]

It has almost a Schumannesque twist. Brilliant.

[ParkaMod]

im hate the fact this was past my time

i absolutly love their songs

theyre classic genius (Y)

[dormi87]

This was on my Hello Children Everywhere tape =D

[genia106]

Great! This was soooo Good!

Thank you.

[Pipena23]

When I hear this great stuff again, after all these years,I wonder how anyone can be, even slightly, amused by some of the dross that is presented to us on TV nowadays.

[TimAber57]

@Pipena23

Well put....

[Goodyfan17]

@Pipena23 Gno, me gneither

[Diddidonut]

Upload the HEAT song!!

Heat can't pass from the cooler to the hotta!Heat can't pass from the cooler to the hotta!

You can try it if you like, but you far better notta! You can try it if you like, but you far better notta!

[cazmoore]

As I've said before, I'm five again. Just love this song. (I remember as a child I was teased and was told there was a Gnumph and a Gnu under the bed. I actually thought there was. For years.) Thanks so much, U Tube!

[sedentarymonkey]

Loved 'em since I was a kid, ta muchly for the uplaods!