Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs (with lyrics)

[SOOTY892]

just listen to the lyrics magic pure magic

[forestgumpaed]

i think l.s. lowry would have been impressed by this song.

[glasgowcentral1]

lovely video. happy memories

[JustVizuaL]

i can remember when i was a paperlad and this was playing all the time.

[rokerlad49]

sunderlnd jarrow south sheilds he painted the lot its a catchy song

[icemagz]

...cats and dogs. WUFF WUFF WUFF WUFF WUFF!

[DidleyPipes]

my god i loved this record when i was younger my grandad was a ledge for havin this on vynal

[blobta12]

love this tune takes me back to the past when my son very young he loved this tune

[SandGandBandD]

My brother learnt this at school on a memorial day for a boy who died in the school, my mum was crying when she heard my brother perform it, I love it now!

[jobarkeruk]

i luv this song, we learnt it at school the other day

[jobarkeruk]

great song!!!!! :)

[ZenPyramid]

...3 people can't paint...

[TheGrumpyBadger1]

one of your lyrics is wrong every lyric sheet says the same but the actual lyric is "No room old lad the walls are full"

[MDKCLANZz]

great song i love it! even the people in our school!Well Done!

[Regga718]

wow geat song i heard it in switzerland when i was 19 i loved it

[emmabailes]

its true that southerners look dowqn on northeners i married a southerner and she can not under stand the bond i have with the north a north of mills and hard graft but now i am down south i am CLEANSED not

[norfolknchance100]

@emmabailes contradiction if ive ever heard one southerners look down on northerners yet a southerner married ya what to take the piss out of you by looking down on ya fuck off

[dipsy1973]

kids on the corner in sparking clogs oh bloody hell and there was us as kids singing kids o0n the corner having a snog this video has proved us wrong lmao.thanks for the memories this song has brought back.also never apologise for how you speak.

[pimski]

my gran would play me this on vinyl as a kid she was from salford!

[banananaXDjedward]

i know all the words !

[banananaXDjedward]

Love this song everyone in my class loves it !!!!

[soupdragonuk]

This was my late Grandad's favourite song.

[fatustwatus]

this is my next kareoke sonk

[AntiSilence666]

This was the UK number one when I was born in April '78. Nice song.

[busarider13]

Love it

[motormusic1]

Sadly, older life is starting to become clearer.. which isn't a good thing.. This track is ace though.. maybe not when it came out and i was a kid... but it is now

[smurfyboypauluk]

Fantastic!

[norfolknchance100]

does any one know if lowry painted july at the seaside in water colour

[Ellie8969]

@norfolknchance100 He painted it, but in oils I think, not water colours.

[norfolknchance100]

@Ellie8969 Many thanks ellie

[greenbelter123]

Thanks for posting this. Was in Auckland Art Gallery yesterday and they had a Lowry on the wall that they purchased some time ago. Felt quite emotional as my Dad used to have a painting on the wall and listened to this song when I was young. I'll forget my Northern English upbringing despite living in New Zealand now

[edsterzzzzzz]

ha ha,,thats ow we talk anarl,,english..

[yorkie6687]

Two dislikes, obviously not from Salford, twats, this tune will be played long after

crap factor is dead and buried, end of!!!

[gte113]

@yorkie6687 spot on yorkie. spot on.

[norfolknchance100]

This is a happy track but wow what an artist he was,

[RoadstoneRed]

I remember this one, through the 80's and 90,s and lyrics so catching, Brill no matter where you are from

[galamande]

was born in 1968 and loved this song as growing up. seemed to suit my decade good memories

[claresongstres]

@galamande i was born 63 so much simpler life was than for our teenagers

[animal61066]

A tribute to a simpler better time, how i miss them

[Xbox360Rich]

30 odd years ago I had this on vinyl.

[seancoppinger]

classic!

[gte113]

fab song about a real honest artist,not some hippy doing modern art shite. i mean a pile of bricks or a load of empty packs of crisps, a stuffed cow. what the hell is all that about. long live the real talented painters who have earned the right to be called artists.

[yorkie6687]

@gte113 Great comment!

[nickpink25]

loved this when i was 9 back in the 70s me and me mam sang this all the time top tune

[foxylorri64]

I was just saying how this still get's me swaying and singing along..music was so so good then!

[TheJesterjx3]

tune such a bloody good tune 

[doddy2010]

Makes me want to cry! I feel myself being a kid at school again!

[chip2366]

71000 hits and 2 dislikes thats 2 pricks thats good odds unless you are 1 of the 2 pricks

[Hornet0biker]

@chip2366 Idiot . I've pressed the wrong like button myself a couple of times. Don't be a sheep trying to get attention a?

[milolovesmusic]

ITS WEAR NOT WHERE

[thirtyfoursevenzero]

I hate this song with a vengeance...

[bigmartin]

What a beautiful song.



[fellfox]

I played with these guys at Walls social club in the seventies. Tell you what, they were a good comedy duo too.

[discotruroman]

Simply the best, love it

[DrumableJay]

BIG THUMBS UP FROM ME!!!

=)

[ScruffyNick33]

boy takes me back, still live in Salford and telling my Kids this is the way it was for my dad and me just fills me up with a tear in my eye! Kids look bemused thou! But I wish it was still like this, world just seemed simpler then.....or am I getting old lol!

[motormusic1]

takes me back.. 

[rokerlad49]

canny cant forget it from wearside catchy sad song 

[doddy2010]

@rokerlad49 He painted lots of scenes around Roker and Seaburn - a regular visitor to the North East and Sunderland in particular.

[rebel2221]

i listen to it all the time, lovely song, the kids laugh at me lol

[Anangasnake]

Reminds me of being a little girl in the 70's, plus I'm a Lancashire lass and my family were the types of people Lowry painted

[tristianity4u]

This is cute, it makes me want to visit the UK!

[KARIBA1947]

ghallett68. Something of a pretentious pratt are'nt you , scuse the gramma

[courtoni56]

takes me back makes me cry

[neil9ification]

makes lowry more interesting.

[MrCooldude2023]

cool my mum hates it so i looked it up and found that its really cool

[hawickman]

Brilliantly put. As a Scot living in the South (Bristol) I can relate to this song. The southerners seem to think we are thick if we come from north of Watford

[vanhalan1]

Who gives a toss about the spelling!!?  Boring bastard!!!

[TheRay1930]

@vanhalan1

nice one pal.

ray.

[PRKRedkonsult]

You are quite right. What a delightful homage to a great artist this song is!

Lennart Persson, Gothenburg, Sweden

[MissTanyaLouise]

love it, sung this at primary school, made my dad cry with pride

[milolovesmusic]

PLEASE change where to wear it is sooooo wrong grammmer

[nellingtonium]

I too well up when I hear this song.....didnt know about the northern way of life being a southern gal....very poignant!

[nellingtonium]

I too well up when I hear this song.....didnt know about the northern way of life being a southern gal....very poignant!

[rojblake82]

THis song is ace in billions of ways, and it it still ace since I first heard it in 1978 and I enjoyed it very much and still do and it is ace even to this day.

[kenny6387]

44 soon but wow haha class pmsl

[65lindap]

spelling right 

[secrow]

I love the story. And the song.

[matthew7364]

love this song

[Jamiethewookie]

CHOON!

[taffy5507]

I have a version of this song on a 45 by the Rovers, the flip side of it being 'Wasn't that a party'.

[DavidsonPJ]

i love this song

[robertj1991]

i sang this song in middle school classic tune

[MegaOldBoot]

omg an old friend brought me to this video and i love it, did bring a tear to my eyes and some old memories too

[tripanna]

RIP lowry he was the best artist i know but yet we had to do an art project at school and nobody had heard oflowry but yet at my other school we learnt it in year 1 the year 2 as well OMG they dont like lowry waa lol who else agrees that every school should learn everyrthing about lowry (like or comment that u do if u agrre dislike or comment why if you dont =-)

[dunebasher1971]

Just FWIW, the lyric isn't "No room all round, the walls are full", it's "No room OLD LAD, the walls are full" - i.e. the art establishment telling Lowry, in a patronising way, that there's no wall space available for his work to be exhibited.

[DarkCrystal1329]

Only spelling mistake i saw was *where wen it should be *WEAR* as in an item of clothing etc.

[TheMusicman12ize]

i loved this i was 8 wen this hit the charts back in 1978 a classic to that day brian and michael fantastic song

[Olliguer]

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[0Sfan50]

love this song too, always makes my eyes a little watery too,think it must be the fact it takes me back to being a little girl again.

[kurlykiley]

i love this song, i first heard this when i was 8 yrs old, im 27 now and im still in love with it!!!! this is who i named my daughter after. i have a lowry picture (not an original of course lol) that i love soooo much, my art teacher found it in a skip and knew how much i loved his work so he gave it to me. thanks for posting this, its much appreciated!!!! xxx

[andyw285]

@kurlykiley

[thegarnetto1992]

is this painter guy the person the lowry in manchester was named after?

[1974Burnsy]

@thegarnetto1992  Yes,that's correct.

[thegarnetto1992]

first time ive ever heard this. i LOVE IT. amazing song, the end is sad, and i got a bit emotional.

i dont know how it is so good. i usually hate this sort of song, but this is great

[davidoffon]

1978, terry wogan, 8:15am, Galway, my brother had a huge aerial on his car, it was tied down at the back, I was 15 and we heard this one morning at 90 mph, I really thought I knew it all then. he was one of the few people listening to the bbc in his car, we had another vcouple of aerials on ythe house which caused palpitations fron Tony, the local P&T manager, he had to come every year and enquire about our tv and how bout the aerials, watchin the fuggin radio. memoiry is a graet thing.

[Kittielips]

@davidoffon

Terry Woegone?! He drives me mad; what's he getting paid for? I'll tell you what; sheer and utter tripe! He drives me mad!!

Thank you.

Jennie.

[davidoffon]

@Kittielips We had 15 miles to travel every morning, it would seem your madness takes a shorter journey.

[Kittielips]

@davidoffon

It certainly does.

Thank you.

Jennie.

[MegaJohnny107]

lowry sed thay will just stay that way

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Nowadays they'd be singing:

And he painted matchstalk chavs and matchstalk knives and thugs

He painted kids on the corner of the street and they're high on drugs

Now he takes his brush and he flees

Saying don't you shoot me please

For painting matchstalk chavs and matchstalk knives and thugs

[HermyGranger3]

@TomthatiscalledTom

You have a point. An awsome point too. Nice. I've been singing your version at my friend and he laughed his head off. He's not very mature though.

[Kittielips]

@TomthatiscalledTom

That's a 'proper belter!'

A Million Stars.

Jennie.

[micky6321]

@TomthatiscalledTom omfg i love this 

[annie482000]

@TomthatiscalledTom I could almost envisage the Barron Knights singing that! Their send-up had the words:

"And he painted matchstalk men and next-door's cats and dogs.

He painted the couple on the corner of the street, they were having a snog...................."

Annie :)

[Brill39e]

@TomthatiscalledTom Thanks for your depressing Comments on a loveley song --why don't you go out and hang yourself --goodnight----------------

[TomthatiscalledTom]

@Brill39e Oh do piss off

[blagger17]

@TomthatiscalledTom superb.

[kingpav]

I love this song. I never know why or how but every time i hear this song it almost makes my eyes water (a bit).

Am I the only one this happens to or is it quite common?

[Moter75]

Quite common in my case, heard it on the radio a few months ago and brought me back to my youth.. Haven't stopped playing it since. Great song.

[Kittielips]

@kingpav

'ave a reight good scrike cocker.

Jennie.

[TheRay1930]

@kingpav it is as far as i am concirned.

[Renegade150474]

@kingpav your not the only one it happens to me too

[annie482000]

@Renegade150474 And me!

[rennie212]

Quality reminds me of when I was a kid we used to sing this In infants school ;o)

[MrBuckley123]

the kids to day do not now thay are born we ahd nothing but we was much happy kids

[whitelighting31]

good old tune love it , reminds me of old time

[callychamp123]

awsome song... awsome artist!

[ewsihnning]

I had never noticed until how beautiful the childrens chorus is on this song. Love it!

[njm1971nyc]

1:26 - I always wondered what "brusheny weights" were (when I was 6 yrs old) lol

[paulrosie40]

well good song

[hamoteam2]

lurv it been listen to it in skwl and drawing are own lowery pictures x

[marksoutof10]

@hamoteam2 Tell me, in your "skwl", do they teach things like spelling, capitalization and punctuation?

[hamoteam2]

@marksoutof10 ye

[logansboy]

It is No room old lad not no room all round. Great song. Love it.

[cheeseandchutney]

Lol x

[crooksey21]

Love this song, ever since I was a kid, Great Memories

[ghallett68]

I love this song. Video was somewhat spoiled by the appalling grammar and spelling in the lyrics.

[missbishop19]

@ghallett68  what about the spelling. it spelt correctly!

[missbishop19]

haha oh yeah :\ oh well

[missbishop19]

and?? wha about it ....frik off man listen to the tune n get over it

[deepz94]

Jaz:i have got a assembly tommrow of L.S Lowry XXXXXX :) :) :) wow!!!

[MrZabzab12]

fat cunttttttt

[MrZabzab12]

thats fecking good if the spelling is correct

[MrZabzab12]

SO

[regeek]

@missbishop19 DEFINATELY spelling mistake at 1:50. WEAR not where the flat cap..

Grammar, yep.. plenty wrong there; Commas before and.. amongst other things..

All that aside, thanks for putting this vid up. It's a fond memory from my childhood.

[Kittielips]

@regeek

Has the saying goes; 'If the cap fits, wear it!!'

Thank you.

Jennie.

[thegarnetto1992]

@missbishop19

i think he is reffering to the way it is spelt how it is said (like "nowt"). i see that as a good thing myself

[DarkCrystal1329]

@thegarnetto1992 Its a northern term for "Nothing" & it is spelt correctly, I am from the north of england..

[FlusteredCustard]

@missbishop19 couple of spelling errors, but nowt too bad. as for the grammar, well its a song!! No song has proper grammar so @ghallett68 needs to go back to school!

[MadFranko008]

@ghallett68 It never ceases to amaze me just how thick some folk can be, you claim to love this brilliant song, yet go on to complain about the uploaders appalling grammer. Listen to the song properly you numptie the word are spelt as sung or does you tiny little brain translate the words you hear into "proper" English that only you can hear... gawd sum folk eh... geeza brek ya dunderheid ye...

[MegaJohnny107]

i fucking love this song as well (mate)

[Kittielips]

@ghallett68

I quite agree!!

Jennie.

[printer10001]

@ghallett68 If you are smart enough to spot a few mistakes, you should also be gracious enough to forgive them. Don't use it as an opportunity to show off.

[222ksh]

@printer10001 Idon't know what u mean?? If somebody is an arse....they always will be!!!

[robertj1991]

@ghallett68 no spellingv mistakes if you think you can do a better job you rewrite this song

[TheRay1930]

@ghallett68 don't worry love,we all put words together like that up here,cannot realy se your problem.learn the words then you can sing along without looking at the screen.

[222ksh]

@ghallett68 Sorry do not no where you r from but thats ow we speak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



[mazhbk]

@222ksh true lancashire dialect!!!!!!!!!

[MagicSnowfly]

@ghallett68 cynical bastard

[cheeseandchutney]

Classical i apps love this my nan pplayed it on tape when i was a baby and i lurved it ever since :):) xx

[missbishop19]

@cheeseandchutney yes my dad used 2 play this and still does..i have always loved it !!

[rikparry]

@missbishop19 brilliant song thats forgotten,love the lyrics

[MrZabzab12]

GAYBOY

[antiquesman2606]

classic !