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  • i'm not dead and gone yet, but when i go this will be my song going out of this world, a happy man, brilliant, you don't get music like this nowadays, can anybody today that has been to a party say they had a sing along bet no just noise

  • "CLASSIC" Now this is MUSIC..

  • awesome - sing along song

  • This was played at my dad's funeral 2 years ago today, at his request. Great song.

  • my brother loved this song and i played this song at his funeral it is a pure classic

  • Fabulous song, beautifully performed.

    No bullshit.

    Great sentiment.

  • Fantastic record and I saw Gallagher and Lyle live at Alexandra Palace a lifetime ago. I don't go along with all this, 'when did they stop making great records' crap. There are some great bands today, think Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Noah & The Whale and dozens of others.

  • @willmurphy1951 Somewhere around the mid to late 70's :)))

  • I'm 60 years old and going downhill fast. Can someone out there tell me or remind me exactly when it was that decent, innocent music like this song stopped being the Norm, and was overtaken by todays crap? Thank you so much for this posting. x

  • @willmurphy1951

    Hi mate, same as, just turned down the slippery slope, maybe it's just an age thing but the music today doesn't seem to be of the same calibre as way back when....

  • @willmurphy1951 i think 1966 /1967 /68/69 70s did it for me

  • @willmurphy1951 this song that i like was a hit end 1970 , early 1971 , i m 58 year and very happy not be young now .Not that i hate the young ones , it s not their fault it all happen .

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  • mr flint is awesome

  • I srill have te 45 RPM in my living room..but I have been looking for VIDEO of the group playing this..does it EXIST?

  • Takes me back...Brilliant and different!

  • I saw Gallagher & Lyle perform this live ....years ago. One of the greatest pop songs of all time I think

  • @catblack10 - I fondly remember G & L's performance of the song as a duo on BBC2's 'Sight and Sound In Concert'. It was in the key of C, rather than D, and featured Graham on lead vocal/mandolin and Benny on harmony vocal/acoustic guitar with a harmonica on a frame. WHEEZE!

  • Now listen children, I know you're not going to believe this, but once upon a time long long ago, people were able to make great music just by stretching some wires across little boxes of wood which they used to call "Guitars" and 'Mandolins".

    I know, I know, it sounds incredible, but this was before they invented ipods and Cheryl Cole, and it was a long, long time ago.

  • @cruithneuladh what a dickhead

    

  • @cruithneuladh GFAM

  • im dead

  • saw them in a church hall in pontypridd all those years ago crikey

  • love this song.

  • many thanks.... its a part of my early time (from '56 born..) >>> ;-))) and: very very nice, to have chance to sing to this !!

  • Just Love It!!!

  • was into this band years.before....put up brother physic...please

  • Ah what memories,great song

  • awesome group

    and even more awesome song

  • All time CLASSIC !!!

  • Just heard this on East Is East - and it brought back memories ... Great!

  • Great song. Clever, well constructed video. Great combination.

  • Great tune.. thanks for including the lyrics for a sing a long. Really enjoyed it :) oh la la la

  • I heard Def Leppard's version first...this is very good (the original). I like both although partial to Leppard but that's just me!

  • The B-side of this was a really great song too.

    I can't remember the title but it had some really good lyrics that went "it has been a lazy afternoon" and "all night thinking how she threw my love away", anyone know the song?

  • thanx mate.i bought this on a single when it came out!

  • status quo did a brilliant cover of this...

  • Brilliant song!!!!!

  • Love this song, brings back memories of Christmas 1970 in North London, drinking bacardi and coke, brut aftershake and load of other senitmental stuff when I was 17.

    Still love the song, still got the single I bought in Finsbury Park

    Where have all those years gone

  • @topshed34a ,

    You were posh. Me too except it was woodpecker cider for me.

  • @topshed34a ,

    You were posh. Me too except it was woodpecker cider for me.

    Did we waste those years?

  • magic stuff, was a hit when i was at school, fantastic one of the all time greats !!!

  • Great little song--first record I bought that I was actually able to put on a turntable and play.

    My old Dansette was just made for music like this.

  • LOVE IT!

  • Wow! This took me back, I was about 8 years old when this came out. Loved it then, love it now. Thanks for posting!

  • great song

  • Always liked this one. Thanks for posting, stanfordn

  • cracking track !!

  • sounds like Beatles :D I know it´s not :D anyway, great, beautiful old song :)

  • rock mandolin and humazoo.who wodda thunk?i just think this is one of the best tunes ever!

  • I recently saw a film over here on tv it was called East is East and this song was in there.

    I love it !!

    thansk so much 4 posting it!!

  • love this oldie...UK seventies rock (most of the time)!!!

  • Great, singable nice instrumentals and anybody who incorporates a kazoo into pro music is OK by me.

    Tom Loughlin Jr Utica NY

  • it is nice to have the lyrics thanks

  • Brilliant song... I remember when I was young lad in the late 80s, I used to think this song was depressing. These days, it's one of the most upbeat, springy tunes in my collection.

  • Great song....if you can catch the Manfreds in concert they still do it - I saw them in Worthing in April 2010 ........ a luvverly birthday treat. Tom McGuiness is still brilliant, and it's worth the admission price just to see/hear Paul Jones play the Gob Organ. That's not fair on the rest of the Band as they are all superb, but it's just that Tom and Paul are the best that you can be. Go and see them if you get the chance.....you won't regret it.

  • This is one of the best songs I have ever heard.

    Gallagher & Lyle were great songwriters and good Scottish lads.

    Thank you Stanfordn for putting this on YouTube.

  • @Giesabrekk I agree, it's a great song. Phil Everly has a version from 1983 which is super, also!

  • @justmusicandme, loved it ... a great song!!

    I think of Phil Everly whenever I hear this song, he left more than a few happy women liv'n on :))

  • This was my granddads funeral song. He only died in march and his death is still raw but when i hear this song, i just have to smile. It is so fitting for him. He had to make sure everyone was happy before himself and would hate to think that we were mourning his death. If he taught me anything it was LIVE TODAY TO THE FULLEST BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW!

  • @Iamthemusicgirl1 Fellas like that and their lives are a delight to the God who made them, and gave them this great pre-Heaven to practice in for the rest of the eternal trip. Be joyous. You had his company for a goodly while, now, Heaven wants him to light them up a bit.

    Tom Loughlin Jr, Utica NY

  • Nice song xD

  • Very nicely done; simple but effective. I like seeing the next line below the current line. I haven't heard this song in decades and really enjoyed listening to it in stereo. GREAT JOB!!

  • Excellent song that I have requested in my will to be sung over my grave when ... I'm dead and gone!

  • hello there slim shady... meet my mama if you really do got balls... kiss kiss hug hug forever n' eternally yours is my love... life is a strange strange place for sure...

  • great song. Brings back some wonderful memories.

  • Whoa that song takes me back! Thanks for posting. Reminds me of my trusty old Triumph motorbike and camping near Aviemore, Scotland in the seventies.

  • this was on the radio today playing the old tune now at home bloody cool

  • Havent heard this song in years, always loved its simplicity.

  • Thanks so much for this. Audio is great. Wonderful song. I see it was posted in 2007. I hope you are still kicking ass. Thanks Bro. Just Magic. Every word. sPriNkLeS on you - whoever you are.

  • It's hard to be sad when you listen to McGuiness Flint!!!

  • fantastic

  • My all time fav!!! Fantastic tune and brilliant lyrics!!! can listen to this over and over!

  • tom and the song that fits us all...thanks greatest post

  • triffic! xxx

  • Galagher and Lyle WOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

  • great great great :-))))))

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  • Einfach genial !!!

  • Great song. Thanks for posting.

  • THAT'S IT. many thx for posting i still love it,it gives peace. take care stanfordn (what a cool name ;) )

  • X-mas 70, I´ll always remember this number one Luxenbourg number one hit.

  • Great old song. Happy days !

  • Great ole song! Thanks for the sing-a-long.

  • Graham Lyle is my grandfather. I remember seeing him sing this at a concert. XD

  • @Quadgamers Thats pretty cool. I always loved this song......a vietnam vet who remembers the good music

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  • im 16 and love all this music. thanks for the post man

  • I was about six when this was in the top 40 and being such a little kid, misheard the lyrics. I thought it was "Oh-ho-oh-oh, when I met a gnome"! I had my poor old mum running round all the record shops in Derby asking for 'the song about the gnome for my little girl'!! Lol! Still love it all these years later - thanks for posting.

  • When Gallagher and Lyle's subsequent hit as a duo, "Heart On My Sleeve" first came out, I thought it was called "Hat On The Street"!! It was Graham's thick Scots accent that threw us both!

  • Met tam in a pub in glasgow.He was riddled with cancer and all sorts.He picked up a 3 string out of tune giutar and proceded to give it plenty in perfect tune and play slide with abroken pint glass nearly got us tossed out.Wont forget him in a hurry.

  • Great post thanks

  • why not share this

  • This is a classic single, but Gallagher and Lyle's live version of this song in the late 1970s was even better. It was in the key of C, rather than D, and featured Graham on lead vocal/mandolin and Benny on harmony vocal/acoustic guitar with a harmonica on a holder.

  • Plz tell em me where I can find that!

  • It's on the BBC/Strange Fruit CD "Live In Concert". You can buy this on the internet; type "Gallagher and Lyle albums and CDs for sale" into a search box.

  • thanks!

  • Is their only hit-or not?-But it is a good one-thanks for sharing...

  • They had a further hit with "Malt and Barley Blues" before Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle left to work as a successful duo.

  • One man band proper music get off your nut in a field somewhere festival song!!!

  • stanfordn, sorry if facebookers annoy you. Unless they are being profane, why do you want them to not comment? (I haven't read ALL the comments but so far they look tame). A nice song, one I hadn't heard before.

  • To be honest I don't mind, I just find it rather annoying when the comments that are being made are the same over and over!

  • Ahh....I understand! Yeah, there was a lot of repetitiveness.

  • Sod the bookfacers - this tune was written by Gallagher and Lyle I think just before they jumped ship - total classic. Its kindof like Dropkick Murphys shipping out to Boston in the sense that youd hear it at a party when the insanity was peaking. Great stuff. Thanks post.

  • @CarolinaGrill search for fury in the slaughterhouse same song title ..lil bit faster and just a great cover ..the band isn't anymore but had great music =)

  • Love this song Bought the single coz I liked that mandolin sound.Weird thing is I heard it on the radio only this afternoon at college!

  • Stuff facebook.... If you are from facebook after carrying out some stupid survey please do NOT leave a comment about it! PLEASE.

  • @stanfordn why is there FACEBOOK? its a load of crap. And another way for scammers to get your details and FUCKIN ROB YOU OF EVERY PENNY YOU OWN!!

    Dont believe it? Leave your details on there for all your buddies to read and everyone else that can access them!

  • ahhhh freaking facebook- im shocked really

    i am not this song either

    lmao

  • facebook too, I had no idea what this song was so I had to check it out.  Um never heard it before

  • same here with Facebook...it made me curious..I do like this song now that I hear it. It's very upbeat!

  • woah!!! i'm from a facebook quiz too. how very odd. it's not that popular anyway. i've never heard it. it's not a bad song though

  • facebook lol

  • Here I am from facebook also. I lived the 70's and never had heard this song or maybe I just don't remember this song. Anyway, the quiz sucked...I am not this song.

  • Me neither. This quiz sucked!!!!! Don't want it played at my funeral.

  • im from facebook too

  • Everyone is from facebook

  • haha i took a facebook quiz and it said i am this 70's song

  • hahah facebook got me too.. somethings up

  • holy shit. lol this song couldnt possibly have been that popular if none of us have even heard of it from anywhere but facebook

  • FACEBOOK QUIZZ MADE ME CURIOUS =P

  • Okay... so was the whole "Which Hit Song from 1970 Are You?" thing some kind of weird mess created by the world's only McGuinness Flint fan?

  • facebook here also lol

  • i find this song from facebook..and its boring song

  • facebook quiz here too LOL.

  • me too haha

  • This song is great. I only found out about it through a facebook quiz but i am glad i got this result :).

  • hey - same here!!!! lol

  • lol same here man and i agree

  • thank you for this fab song song,and the lyrics,fer yearsme n ma pal scobie,sang this song,oor wurds,wer aw wrang,bit ye no wit,itdidnae matter.ta jim the jannie x.

  • I hope when I go that it will be a major transition and not just the usual formality.

  • Always reminds me of the film East is East. The song becomes stuck in your head when u watch it.

  • I totally agree one of the best songs ever. And then you have recent artists like TI who cant think of anything new and have to take awesome songs like this and make their own shitty remakes.

  • Awesome...like every one of their songs.

  • When my brother died a few years ago a strange coincidance happened around this song. About a month after he died I saw someone that looked exactly like him at a cafe. I went out to the car and turned on the radio, and this song came blaring out the radio. Shortly before he died my brother told me I would see him again. He had given this album to me as a gift years before. Even stranger- his wife's name at the time of his death was Linda. Just wanted to share this story with you

  • Thank you amputd; that's most interesting and thought provoking. Of course, life is full of coincidences and it is sometimes difficult to filter out the real and the imagined. Yours is real because you are a genuine and loving person. Thank you again.

  • Nice one old friend. I bet you miss him? Bless you

  • Saw Tom MeGuiness touring with the Manfred Mann troupe, plus some others. He sang this - one of the best songs of the evening; caught everyone by surprise ! Simple, clean music. Can't top it !!

  • Fury and the Slaughterhouse did well in covering this, but as per usual, the original is the best.

  • Brilliant Song!

  • Excellent!

  • great song where has the years gone

  • Yep and I thouroughly recommend the CD collection called The Capitol Years. Igrew up with this and the B side was truly awsome called Lazy Afternoon. Absolutely one of the best records ever.

  • One of the best song's ever released----------------- they don't make em like that anymore, all we get is crap and more crap

  • Great, great song!

  • Die Scheibe ist einfach nur klasse über Jahre war Sie mein Liebling ich freue mich rießig das ich sie wieder gefunden habe. Puschbaer

  • Pissed with my headphones on ...no other 'cunt' can hear what I'm listening to and be in a position to critisise...this is livin!

  • Love your style

  • eirbiz me too great aint it

  • @eirbiz Inadequate people resort to foul language because they lack ability to think about what they are saying/writing.

  • better,than the FURY-version,which i knew first. thx for posting

  • fury's version is good but this is the original and best

  • I think they say "mope" beside my grave, not "mourn." Am I wrong? Sounds like mope, always thought it was mope, for like 40 years!

    -ken

  • I always sang 'mope' not that I knew much of what any of the words were then! I sang what it sounded like... OMG! my poor parents..........

  • @kennrich2 Definitely Mourn. I can see how it sounds a little like mope, but I heard mourn everytime.

  • Love this Song... Fury in the slaughterhouse made a good attempt but you can never beat this original! Great tune.

  • Anyone know who sang the lead vocal on this song? Was Tom McGuinnness?

  • Probably Benny Gallagher or Graham Lyle who wrote the song. The album sleeve notes don't have McGuinness as vocalist on any of the tracks.

  • Graham Lyle (ginger hair) is lead singer, while Benny Gallagher (dark curly hair) sings harmony.

  • Thanks for posting stanfordn.

    Love it!

  • Your welcome.... Glad you enjoyed

  • naprosto super!!

  • Your lyrics say "I don't want nobody to mourn beside my GRAVE". Didnt' you notice they really sing "beside my BED"? Significantly, Fury In The Slaughterhouse keeps by the official "grave"....

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  • @hgdebruin Get your ears checked. They do sing grave not bed.

  • Search, listen, download this song on TUNEcup*com

  • Vie stinenze grubenschtein. ser bist ein grossen flubenhausen!

  • In english???

  • My epitaph too!

  • old shit. good shit. HEAVEN X

  • Thanks for this ,great song,saw Tom McGuinness last night and he was ace.

  • Would love to do this on Karaoke...Thanks!

  • i love the song and the mandolin.

  • Can someone put up Blues Talking

  • Think you'll find they already have - it's actually called Malt and Barley Blues, pal

  • Whoops & cheers.

  • Your welcome - in fact, come to think about it, I think the lyrics are "it's just the booze talking" (not the blues). After all, the song's about malt and barley (liquor).