Reasons to be Cheerful

Our Toronto Cheery correspondent Prince Blanco has very kindly supplied us, in list form, Ian Dury and the Blockheads' Reasons To Be Cheerful.

So if you need some cheering up, muse on these, and you'll be able to sing along to everyone's amazement when it next comes on the radio / you go to a Blockheads gig.

Enjoy...

1. summer
2. Buddy Holly
3. the working folly
4. Good Golly Miss Molly
5. boats
6. Hammersmith Palais
7. The Bolshoi Ballet
8. jump back in the alley
9. nanny goats
10. eighteen-wheeler Scammels
11. Domenecker Camels
12. all other mammals
13. equal votes
14. seeing Piccadilly
15. Fanny Smith and Willy
16. being rather silly
17. porridge oats
18. a bit of grin and bear it
19. a bit of come and share it
20. you're welcome, we can spare it
21. yellow socks
22. too short to be haughty
23. too nutty to be naughty
- going on forty
- no electric shocks
24. the juice of the carrot
25. the smile of the parrot
26. a little drop of claret
27. anything that rocks
28. Elvis and Scotty
29. days when I ain't spotty
30. sitting on the potty
31. curing smallpox
32. health service glasses
33. gigolos and brasses
34. round or skinny bottoms
35. take your mum to paris
36. lighting up the chalice
37. Wee Willy Harris
38. Bantu Stephen Biko
39. listening to Rico
40. Harpo, Groucho, Chico
41. cheddar cheese and pickle
42. the Vincent motorsickle
43. slap and tickle
44. Woody Allen
45. Dali
46. Dimitri
47. Pasquale
48. balabalabala
49. Volare
50. something nice to study
51. phoning up a buddy
52. being in my nuddy
53. saying 'hokey-dokey'
54. singalonga Smokey
55. coming out of chokey
56. John Coltrane's soprano
57. Adi Celentano
58. Bonar Colleano

RIP Hammersmith Palais, of course.

If you'd like to sing along with the real thing, someone has very kindly posted up a video of them playing the 45 on their record player. Get stuck in.

Comments

[Steve M Nash]

Hi

Now reading Ian Dury's Reasons to be Cheerful in list form is definitely a reason to be cheerful, for me anyway. Don't really need to play the YouTube vid - but I did, anyway!

Ta

Steve