The Marrow Song (Oh What A Beauty) - Billy Cotton

Had to upload this song, absolutely full of innuendo!

LYRICS:
Down the road there lives a man
I'd like you all to know
He grew a great big marrow
For the local flower show

When the story got around
They came from far and wide
And when the people saw the marrow
Everybody cried!

Oh, what a beauty!
I've never seen one as big as that before
Oh, what a beauty!
It must be two feet long or even more!

It's such a lovely colour
And nice and round and fat
I never thought a marrow
Could grow as big as that!

Oh, what a beauty!
I've never seen one as big as that before
Oh, oh, oh, oh, what a beauty!
We've never seen one as big as that before!

He was leaning on the garden gate the other day
And beckoned to a lady
Who lives just across the way

He took her down the garden path
And showed it her with pride!
And when she saw the size of it
The little lady sighed!

"Oooh, what a beauty!"
She'd never seen one as big as that before!
Oh, what a beauty!
It must be two feet long or even more!

It's such a lovely colour
And nice and round and fat
I never thought a marrow
Could grow as big as that!

Oh, what a beauty!
I've never seen one as big as that before

It's stupendous!
It's collosal!
It's gigantic!
It's bigger than that!

Then the flower show was held and everybody went
To see the great big marrow lying there inside the tent
Soon the judges came along and give the prizes out
They only took one look at it and then began to shout!

Oh, what a beauty!
We've never seen one as big as that before!
Oh, what a beauty!
It must be two feet long or even more!

It's such a lovely colour
And nice and round and fat
I never thought a marrow
Could grow as big as that!

Oh, what a beauty!
We've never seen one as big as that before!

Oooh, I've never seen one as big as that before!

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[MoviManATL]

Hey, does anybody know what album this was originally on? I wanted to submit it as a sample on another website...

[swallin19]

@Dristarg You weren't a success in the 30's/40/'s till banned by the BBC, and Bill Cotton had a string of bans!! and a bigger string of hits!

[BiffChunksteak]

see also "Toxygene" - The Orb

[spannerotoole]

@Dristarg check out i'm sorry i haven't a clue. BBC Radio 4. They once sang it to the tune of there'll always be an england.

[chickinchainmail]

Oh no, earworm!

[StarshipOverflow]

Fantastic! Thankyou for posting this song. We used to use it regularly when we were running a pirate radio station back in the early 90's. Brings back some hilarious memories. I never knew who the song was by until now, as we used to play it off an old 7" reel that was full of recordings of 78's! Thanks again :)

[Dristarg]

I bet the BBC refused to broadcast this for many years.

[jane34uk]

this is sooooooo wrong.........

[priapus56]

Alright Secret Weapon....I knew you wouldn't be able to resist...monkey..

[glenhandley]

Memories of my old friend "Butler" RIP