Chords with lyrics
[1] = an approximation. If you’re looking for a lumber (or a "bag-off"),
you’re out for the night hoping to hook up with a member off the opposite
sex with a view to having a (often temporary) sexual liaison.
[2] = dunny: a passage or basement in a tenement building.
[3] = cludgie: an outside toilet in a tenement building
B7B7
[EM]
1) EM
Well, oot of the east, there came a hard man,
G+G
Ohhoohh, all the way from Brigton
G+G
Ahhahh, glory hallelujah,
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.
2) EM
Well, he went intae a pub and he come oot paralytic,
G+G
Ohhoohh, VP and cider,
G+G
Aahhahh, what a hell of a mixture,
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.
‘Sex rears its ugly head now!"
3) EM
Does this bus go to the Danister Parlae
G+G
Ohhoohh, I’m lookin’ for a lumber,
G+G
Ahhahh, glory hallelujah,
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.
"Eyes up the talent, and lo, and behold..."
4) EM
In the dancin’ he met Hairy Mary,
G+G
Ohhohh, the flo(w)er o’ the Gorbels,
G+G
Ahhahh, glory hallelujah,
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.
Spoken: "He chats her up.."
5) EM
"Ah, noo, Mary, are ye dancin’?"
G+G
"Oh, no, it’s jest the way I’m standin’"
G+G
Ahhahh, glory hallelujah,
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.
"Rebuffed!"
6) EM
"Well, then, Mary, you’re one in a million",
G+G
"Ohhohh, so’s yer chances!"
G+G
Ahhahh, glory hallelujah,
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.
"Rebuffed again!"
7) EM
"Well, then, Mary, can I run ye hame?
G+G
Ohhoohh, I’ve got a pair of sandshoes
G+G
Aahhaahh," yer hell of a funny..."
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.
"Never say die; sways aboot non-chalantly pickin’ his nails wi’ ’is bayonet; an ’e
knocks ’er off!..."
8) EM
Well, doon through the back close, and intae the dunny,
G+G
Ohhoohh, it wasnae for the first time,
G+G
Ahhahh, glory hallelujah,
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.
9) EM
Then oot came her mammy, she was goin’ tae the cludgie
G+G
Ohhoohh, I half-buggered off Sharpish
G+G
Ahhahh, glory hallelujah,
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.
10) EM
Noo Hairy Mary’s lookin’ for her hard man
G+G
Ohhoohh, he’s joined the Foreign Legion
G+G
Aahhaahh, Sahara under a camel
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice
11) EM
Then Hairy Mary had a little baby,
G+G
Ohhoohh, his father’s in the army,
G+G
Aahhaahh, glory hallelujah,
EM
Cod liver oil and the orange juice.