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From: housetrained on 10 Jun 2007 03:04 Grandad says in his day there was a popular song going something like - "Thank you very much for the Aintree Irons, thank you very much, thank you very, very much." "Thank you very much for our gracious team, tha........ etc.etc." What's the IRONS got to do with Aintree??? He thinks it was sung by a Scouse group. -- John the West Ham fan housetrained(a)hotmail.com <><
From: PeterMcC on 10 Jun 2007 04:34 housetrained wrote in <HnNai.1496$HD2.449(a)newsfe7-win.ntli.net> > Grandad says in his day there was a popular song going something like > - "Thank you very much for the Aintree Irons, thank you very much, > thank you very, very much." > "Thank you very much for our gracious team, tha........ etc.etc." > What's the IRONS got to do with Aintree??? > He thinks it was sung by a Scouse group. He's right about the group but it was nothing to do with WHUFC. The song's "Thank you very much" by Scaffold. Scaffold - a jokey pop band formed by a group of Liverpool poets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scaffold Lyrics: http://home.hetnet.nl/~sixties/LYRICS/1968/6801131508.html HTH -- PeterMcC If you feel that any of the above is incorrect, inappropriate or offensive in any way, please ignore it and accept my apologies.
From: Den on 10 Jun 2007 04:45 "housetrained" <housetrained(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:HnNai.1496$HD2.449(a)newsfe7-win.ntli.net... > Grandad says in his day there was a popular song going something like - > "Thank you very much for the Aintree Irons, thank you very much, thank you > very, very much." > "Thank you very much for our gracious team, tha........ etc.etc." > What's the IRONS got to do with Aintree??? > He thinks it was sung by a Scouse group. > > -- > John the West Ham fan > housetrained(a)hotmail.com > <>< It was 'thank you very much for the Aintree iron', not irons. By Scaffold, they also did one called 'Lily the pink', take what you like out of that, I never knew what it meant. http://www.lyricsvault.net/songs/9664.html
From: Mel on 10 Jun 2007 06:03 "Den" <den.evers(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:USOai.17398$I55.15051(a)newsfe2-gui.ntli.net... > > "housetrained" <housetrained(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message > news:HnNai.1496$HD2.449(a)newsfe7-win.ntli.net... >> Grandad says in his day there was a popular song going something like - >> "Thank you very much for the Aintree Irons, thank you very much, thank >> you very, very much." >> "Thank you very much for our gracious team, tha........ etc.etc." >> What's the IRONS got to do with Aintree??? >> He thinks it was sung by a Scouse group. >> >> -- >> John the West Ham fan >> housetrained(a)hotmail.com >> <>< > > It was 'thank you very much for the Aintree iron', not irons. > By Scaffold, they also did one called 'Lily the pink', > take what you like out of that, I never knew what it meant. > > http://www.lyricsvault.net/songs/9664.html It was about a bunch of poofs from Liverpool Mel. > >
From: PeterMcC on 10 Jun 2007 07:12 Mel wrote in <i7ydnfw5Rr4fUfbbnZ2dneKdnZypnZ2d(a)bt.com> > "Den" <den.evers(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message > news:USOai.17398$I55.15051(a)newsfe2-gui.ntli.net... >> >> "housetrained" <housetrained(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message >> news:HnNai.1496$HD2.449(a)newsfe7-win.ntli.net... >>> Grandad says in his day there was a popular song going something >>> like - "Thank you very much for the Aintree Irons, thank you very >>> much, thank you very, very much." >>> "Thank you very much for our gracious team, tha........ etc.etc." >>> What's the IRONS got to do with Aintree??? >>> He thinks it was sung by a Scouse group. >>> >>> -- >>> John the West Ham fan >>> housetrained(a)hotmail.com >>> <>< >> >> It was 'thank you very much for the Aintree iron', not irons. >> By Scaffold, they also did one called 'Lily the pink', >> take what you like out of that, I never knew what it meant. >> >> http://www.lyricsvault.net/songs/9664.html > > > It was about a bunch of poofs from Liverpool > Mike "McGear" - McCartney's brother - wrote the lyric and says in correspondence resulting from a query in the Guardian: "As I actually wrote "Thank U very much for the Aintree Iron" for Scaffold, I trust that I'm the best judge as to the authenticity of your readers' answers. Stephen Bold says that he once heard me define the Aintree Iron as "iron hoof: poof", ie Brian Epstein, "a resident of Aintree". I suggest he buys a hearing aid! I have never commented on Brian's sexuality, and I could never have said that he was a resident of Aintree, as he didn't live there. As for Neil Burgess, who says the Iron was a railway "gravitational marshalling yard" . . . what a load of grid iron! Sorry, Neil, you're light aeons away. As it's now coming up to 30 years since I created this mischievous little monster, I'd like to thank U all very much for your continuing curiosity, and look forward to the next 30 years of miles-off guesswork." Mike McCartney, (ex-McGear, ex-Scaffold), Liverpool http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1840,00.html I'm more bothered about sharing the same memories as Housetrained's grandad :-( -- PeterMcC If you feel that any of the above is incorrect, inappropriate or offensive in any way, please ignore it and accept my apologies.
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