From: housetrained on
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.

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From: PeterMcC on
housetrained wrote in
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> 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

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From: Den on

"housetrained" <housetrained(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> 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

"Den" <den.evers(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> "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.
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>


From: PeterMcC on
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> "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
:-(

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