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  • It's one of those tunes that you can't get out of your head. It goes on and on. Love it.

  • dislikes are all muppets

  • George Formby you truly are an eternal ray of sunshine :D

    that can make the grumpiest person smile :) 

  • fab never be another one like him

  • Have also bought a boxed set of George's CDs - but this song is not on included. :-( Anybody know which CD it is on? Even so, listening to a George Formby CD every day is good for you! ;-)

  • The master of the split stroke

  • Can someone please tell me the chords if possible, ive been looking forever online, they dont seem to exist!? are all the chords barred?

  • Got this as my ringtone....makes me smile every time someone calls me :-)

  • gotta love a shot of george into your life..........

  • I would pay anything to go back in time and meet this true genius

  • Heh heh heh heh, excellent.

    

  • three dislikes who the fuck are these guys

  • I've always loved George's rather silly but happy go lucky films so I have bought the boxed set from a popular internet market place ;-) for 12.99. Looking forward to seeing them. Sainsbury - what have you started! :-)

  • Can i say i have heard the original but george formby deserves this song as his swan song it suits him and his performance and version are second to none love it. The man is simply a British legend and the words of this song opitimize the brilliant majestic formby.

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  • where can i find the chords/tab ?

  • @rillock I can only seem to find the Paul Evans version not the George Formby one :(

  • @rillock

    Hey

    F A7 Bb F C7 F .....and on the chorus F7 Bb F C7 F

  • on the verge of suicide i heard this song. it got into my head and kept repeating over and over again,Life is sweet, sweet like honey, Happy go lucky me.

    what is happy?

  • After his wife died Formby publicly confessed that "My life with Beryl was hell".Two months later he became engaged to schoolteacher Pat Howson, 20 years his junior. Yeah, I'll bet he was happy.

  • WHAT A GREAT HAPPY SONG. LISTEN TO THIS WHENEVER YOU ARE SAD OR DEPRESSED. THIS SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE AT XMAS. WELL DONE TO SAINSBURYS AND THEIR XMAS ADVERT

  • and yes its sainsbury's

  • what a tremendous talent he was never to be forgotten

  • Okay, stop your petty arguments.

    1. This is a brilliant song.

    2. The song works very well with the Sainsbury's advert.

    Enough said.

  • at last the right version

  • Happy Happy song, well done JS

  • This Christmas at Sainsbury's...

  • hehehe i go mad wen this song comes on the advert xx

  • I just joined the George Formby Society,and received the quarterly very high quality glossy magazine today,packed full of photographs and information.Treat yourself for Christmas,it's only £16 a year,and you then become part of the George Formby family!

  • realy cheers me up

  • that drum in the background gives it some umph!

  • This is not a Christmas song. It was not recorded for Christmas and has no lyrics about Christmas. Sainsbury's could've plucked any non-seasonal song for their Christmas adverts and everyone would be saying "oooh, lets make this a Christmas number 1".

  • @jezz2k WRONG! This has become a sensation because it's such a jolly, feel good song. We just don't get these type of songs nowadays. :-(

  • @Phaedrax2 Its still not a Christmas song. To paraphrase my original post, Sainsbury's couldv'e picked any non-season feel-good song from the past and everyone would be saying "Ooh, let's make this a Christmas number 1".

  • @jezz2k Well we can't possibly know that for sure - but nothing wrong with a feel good song and not everyone wants to hear Christmas songs. This one just happened to hit the feel good spot - and nowt wrong wi that!

  • @Phaedrax2 You miserable so and so/pleb,enjoy the song its great! Make it number 1 and keep quiet!!!

  • @Paxo469 I think you should read the posts again - it's not me you should be attacking, I love the song and would love it to be a Christmas No.1.

  • @jezz2k You miserable cold fish/pleb,wake up and enjoy the song !,...prob from yr berkshire/essex bunker.

  • @Paxo469 Did I say I didn't like it? It's a good song, I'm just saying its not a Christmas song, which it isn't, and for that you resort to insults? Sheesh.

  • Lovely Jubbly!

  • Absolutely bloody wonderful and this brings such joy and a smile to my face. George Formby a real class act and a wonderful ukelele player. This should be number one great great

  • Wonderful!,make it number 1 !!

  • still time to get this to xmas number one.....

  • We need happy songs .

  • There are facebook pages: just type george formby christmas no.1 and like it

  • Just download it from iTunes may be too late to get it to No.1 but let's have ago. Managed to post this page to Twitter but not sure how to post to Facebook!

  • Agree, love this song it makes me smile! George Formby for No.1.....

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  • get it released now nailed on number one,stop the xfactor crap.george still makes me laugh.

  • Such a fantastic track by George. A couple of bookies were giving odds at 14/1 for Xmas No.1 at some stage but it's fallen away. It probably won't chart now but what a fab wee tune. Always makes you smile. I think it was Georges' last single before he died at the ridculously early age of 56! Good on you George, you still make a lot of people smile!! :-)

  • 2 people are bah humbugging!!!

  • Come on send it out to everyone u know we don't want fucking xfactor shite sea no.1 for Xmas

  • Lets start a Rage Against the Rage Against the Machine protest. This should be No 1 this Christmas no dangers. I have this as a ring tone on my phone and the amount of people who laugh at this is unbelievable.......so how do we start the protest. Happy go lucky me.......

  • Nice song but when I hear it on the Sainsburys ad I fucking HATE it - probably seeing Sainsburys and Jamie Oliver that does it...

  • @TheMasterNo6 sainsburys over embellish this, feckin eggits, great post

  • yes I agree it should be number 1 this xmas

  • how do you "upload to facebook " sorry if I m thick BUT I AGREE it should be Xmas No 1

    its a great song and cheerful what we ALL need right NOW!!!!

  • @MsRolandx copy and paste the video URL to your facebook status, I agree this needs to be No 1!

  • I had the same idea let`s all post to Facebook

    

  • I agree, this song should be No. 1 for Chrimbo. Everyone upload it onto facebook and lets see what happens

  • How can anyone dislike this ? let the thumbs down explain !!!!!!

  • LOL every where I go it seems that someone is humming it! :-) (including me ;-) )

  • Morrisey should cover this the old misery

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  • Immediately when this came on the Sainsbury's ad, I said "George Formby" without thinking

  • Even makes the BORG smile lol

  • lol welsh4ever you whistling my partner caroline is begging me to stop singing this We got to get this to number 1 for christmas its so catchy

  • Drove the wife nuts whistling this song so catchy and once you start whistling you can't stop. Yeah we should try and get this to no1 for Xmas stuff the xfactor

  • I think this is such a catchy song,couldn't stop singing it in my head after hearing it on the sainsburys ad,real feel good song! Go Geaorge....should be no 1 for christmas.

  • Just Downloaded it from itunes! Geordie No 1 for Xmas!!!!

  • I have sent a message to Magic105.4 If everyone sends them a message via Facebook maybe Foxy will play it worth a try

  • i saw the add and wanted to find this song They tell us we are in a resession so why should we spend our money making a false built x factor no 1 please lets have this happy song as no 1 at xmas

  • Remember...more recently,Peter Kay revived the old Tony Christie number Amarillo and brought it to the top of the charts for seven weeks running,so it can happen.

  • What this needs is for a top DJ to take it up and play it every day. l'm mindful of the fact that some years ago Terry Wogan did exactly that with The Floral Dance and took it into the top ten.Perhaps someone out there has the contacts necessary to get the media interested enough to make that happen again with this song. This country's crying out for something to cheer them up just now and l believe this just could be it.

  • the more i play this song..the more i love it....i know the words now lol......every1 shud post this on their facebook + tweet it to get noticed...i have.....thx 4 posting

  • I'd love someone to organise one of those flash parties where everyone turns up to a certain spot with their ukeleles and sings this song! :-)

    Or how about having it as a ringtone? LOL

  • Just brilliant, like a few others hunted it down after seeing the Sainsburys ad

    Could it possibly get to Number 1 ????

  • @Dave1retd I just downloaded from iTunes, £0.59. Go get it and make it No1...

  • @SweetStout

    Just done it.... go George go....

  • Get it to #1 for 'Our George'

  • Send it to everyone you know c'mon no 1 for crimson

  • I love it when im riding my bike and this comes on my ipod, however swerving in the road to the tune is not the safest thing

  • Thumbs up if you found this from the Sainsbury's advert?

  • George Formby's 'Happy Go Lucky me' for Christmas NO. 1 There's a group for that on FB.

  • His Laugh is epic!

  • Played this on my show on Chorley FM community radio station last night. Love it! Let's get George to Number One!

  • It gets my vote. Just posted it on my Facebook wall. Love this on the telly advert.

  • I love this. It's ages since I listened to George Formby, but I loved him when I was a kid, (and just for the record, I'm not that old!). Brilliant feel good music!

  • Doesn't it say something about the music of today when we turn to artists and songs of sixty years ago when we need cheering up,and god knows,we need them as much today as we ever did. l doubt there are any songs today that can lift the spirits like these do. But unlike today's offerings,that's what they were intended to do.They were a product of tough times and we still need that feel good factor today. Problem is,the entertainments industry don't give a damn what we want any more.How sad!

  • Fed up with Cowell t.v and other reality rubbish. I`d rather watch repeats of programmes from 40 and 50 years ago than the trash we have on now! Better talent and less vanity!

  • @latehare1

    I so agree.... Bin cheap reality rubbish !!!

  • all this talk about George being Christmas number 1. Let's not just think about it, let's do it. Download it from iTunes today and make this dream a reality. It'll be a real kick in the arse to Cowell that he can be beaten by a northern comic that's been dead for 50 years. It will also give Goerge his first ever number one in the British singles charts as this never got there back in 1960.

  • Bloody good feel good song maybe we need more like this for the times we all in right now , Fantastic !!!!!

  • I love it, it makes me feel like life ain't that bad! Yeah..... No1 for Crimbo would be Fun!!!

  • Fantastic, good old Georgy never fails to make me smile :-)

  • George is my hero, I think he's terrific and sadly missed, thnaks for posting his last song! No one could play the uke like him!

  • I used to watch g/fs film's when i was a kid,it just proves what a great entertainer he was,when someone year's later uses one of his song's for a commercial,g/f still lives on....go on my son!!

    maybe they ought to show his film's over xmas,i'm sure the kid's will love them..cant be no worse than the usual repeat's.

  • This is a great feel good song should be number 1 instead of that x factor shite proper music by a reet proper singer bless you georgie!!

  • SUPER SONG NUMBER 1 FOR 2011

  • GF was one of THE richest men in the world, thanks to his music and films, many dont realise that

  • Anyone think this great song should be at number 1 in the charts for Christmas? Click on thumbs up to this comment!

  • If everyone felt the happyiness and feeling of this song this country would be a more joyfull place to live...

  • This really releases the 'feel good' factor - we need more songs like this to cheer us up!

  • the dogs bollocks good old george

  • THIS NEEDS TO BE CHRISTMAS NO. 1 not the crappy X Factor finalists that cannot sing for shit

  • @CLASSICMONSTERGUY95 Listening to this all week on the Television and finally found it on You-Tube. Certainly agree with the comments.

  • @CLASSICMONSTERGUY95 I'm now wondering if Mr Cowell is getting nervous at the popularity of this song? May be coincidence, but I've noticed that the ad is now only giving us a shortened version featuring the ukele. :-(

    Cowell's shows bring ITV a terrific amount of revenue so don't doubt he has enough clout to have the ad shortened, :-/

  • Just posted it to facebook and twitter

  • yeah make this Christmas #1

  • Formby finally needs recognition for the great musician he was! X mas number 1.

  • I agree. This should be released for Xmas no.1. Far better than anything Simon Cowell has produced

  • kik himin the face u mean

    im onnabout jamie oliver not george

  • great sone but someone PLEASE punch that git Jamie Oliver in the face!

  • @moaardeeb i will if i get close enough

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  • @moaardeeb Jamie Olive-oil lol

  • great song!!!!!

  • Can't get this happy tune out of my head now - would love it to be Christmas No.1 Simon Cowell will be crying his little socks off. :-)

  • Number one Christmas 2011!!

  • Love the advert, love the song, thanks Sainsbury's!

  • Great advert ,Great song!!

  • fantastic much better than the crapo we are going to be fed with you know who i meen cowell and co

  • My Dads generation - wonderful - the men who fought the wars and came home to a nation that didnt deserve them, and a series of bloody awful governments that have ruined us . I want the Britain that was Great back . Dear old George - bless him .

  • i absolutely love this song , george is a legend

  • Finally, in the midst ofl this grey, hopeless, era ruled by hopeless career politicians who have NO idea what we want or need, 50 years after his death, the Great George Formby casts his spell over us once again, summoned, unwittingly, by one of the combatants in the supermarket wars that threaten the small shops and businesses that thrived in HIS era, just a few bars of a tune that takes us back to imagined happier, Golden times that only really existed in the Imagination XMAS HIT!

  • It is cracking - totally agree!

  • I love the advert and of course George Formby.

  • cheered me up no end thanks george e boy

  • 14/1 For Christmas no.1 2011

  • impossible to be anything but happy for the duration of this song....my 5th time today

  • I'm from Wigan and George Formby makes me extremely proud. He made awesome songs and people still love them! :D

  • You can download on itunes lets make it Christmas No1

  • Great song hahah, heard it on sainsburys advert!

  • What a great idea !!!!!

    Let's make George No.1 for Christmas.

    It's not a case of voting...we have to 'download' songs now.

    COME ON YOU LOT...VOTE FOR GEORGE !!!!!!

  • @michaelmurphy07

    theres a page for it on facebook :D

  • It will give all the country a lift if George was no1 for Christmas please lets do it!

  • @buxtonshuffler

    theres a page for it on facebook :D

  • Once again George Formby comes to the rescue and brings a smile to me! This once great nation when we had loads of enthusiasm such as George had and innuendo instead of the blatant foul mouthed types around now. With George there was plenty of thought and mystery as with all comedians and singers of the era.

  • Bet your playing the 'air banjo' while listening. I am.

  • Fantastic!! never really liked him but just love this song!! for some reason I cant put it on my face book page

  • That solo is amazing!

  • i,m 36 and was introduced to george`s work by my grandfather nearly 30 years ago and have been a fan ever since a true cheeky chappie in a more refined era he was a legend for his wartime stuff so i agree with sandP19 vote it for xmas no1 bout time simon cowells media monopolizing rubbish was put out to pasture and something meaningfull put in it`s place "happy go lucky me"

  • He had quite a lot of hits, I really thought that he wrote this but he didn't, His brother until he died lived in the Stechford area of Birmingham according to the rumor in a house originally bought by George for his mum, It was also rumored that it was his brother who actually wrote Georges famous songs and sold them to George, it was also said that Georges brother was also a very capable Uke player, Of course these as I said were rumors that I heard 41 years ago, This track is my FAVOURITE.

  • Happy Go Lucky Me the best of george formby is on itunes and the cost of the track is 59p a bargain to have a great x-mas song as number one and to keep that drivel from cowell off the top. If it gets to number one we can finally shout HE HE HE TURNED OUT NICE AGAIN!!!!!

  • What a feel good song, and George, well we need you now more than ever

  • its so funny that Sainsburys use the back drop of a panto for the add, whats not so funny is the fact that the managers were i worked for sainsburys were a bunch of panto caricters all year round only problem with that was they were all playing the wicked witch. have to say damed fine tune while im at it. 

  • They just don't make them like they used too !

  • Hear hear! This one for No.1 at Xmas, PLEASE!!!

  • remember listen to this on the wireless when i was a tot thought it was great

    in 1957

  • wonderfull

  • possibly the only video ive seen without any dislikes and why would there, what a feel good song :)

  • Good and simple fun. Perfect.

  • Thanks Sainsbury's ad agency for this No 1 for Christmas anything to keep Cowell's cronies off the spot !

  • just love this,its a feel good tune,thanks sainsbury's for reviving it,it makes you look at the advert even if you are not watching tv,brilliant x

  • I sing this to my 9month old son thanks to the Sainsbury advert and he loves its, giggles away. Thanks George Formby & God bless

  • love song ta to sainsburys hope its made him famous again appreciation society will be well chuffed i bet

  • Cant beleive its taken so long for people to click onto George Formby!

  • Agree, it does make me chuckle

  • Original  feel good song and talent - this should def. be the number one, for christmas 2011 - I wish I had an invite, to that christmas dinner, in the Sainsbury's advert !!!

  • superjennycat

    WOW What a great idea to get this to Christmas No. 1. Just to feel happy each

    time hear it, not only on the Sainsbury ad. OK people you know what you have

    to do. Looks like I will be trying Chris Evans, he's up for almost everything.

  • Yeah George for number one. Let's vote for talent.

  • I have heard people whistling this around town!!!. I bet we will never get to hear this on the radio, it would make a nice change from One Dimension, Matt Cardle (who) etc etc. George had more talent in his plectrum (if he ever used one) Britain HAD talent.

  • Yes, being number one would be a great send off on his 50th anniversary.

  • Sainsbury's a huge thank you for introducing this song to me, its been in my head for weeks. Lets get this to Number One people.

  • A true performer who did not need gimmicks to aid his voice. GEORGE FOR No 1 this christmas. YES

  • @SuperGordon59 totally agree he was a true legend

  • excellent song for no1

    we could all do with looking at what we have instead of the have nots

  • Good old George,he was the epitome of what a true Star Entertainer was.Shame we dont have any like him these days!

  • george for number 1 2011

  • are you sure its sainsburys? iceland frozen foods are using the same tune at the moment on there tv adverts

  • not sainsburys any more its iceland foods

  • Wot a cracker