The Scaffold, Lilly the pink

Yeah guys it's time to look back at another weird and maybe even terrible, old late 60s song! lol.
What was this video about ehh, back in the black n white days of the late 60s lol.
They killed poor Lilly off!!.
But hey, I always like saying, that they really don't write them like this anymore do they!!.

 

Mike McGear one of the band members is Paul McCartneys younger brother

The song is based on
The U.S. American folk (or drinking) song on which Lily the Pink was based is generally known as "Lydia Pinkham" or "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham". It has the Roud number 8368.[4] The song was inspired by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a well-known herbal-alcoholic patent medicine for women. Supposed to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains, the compound was mass-marketed in the United States from 1876 onwards.

The song was certainly in existence by the time of the First World War. F. W. Harvey records it being sung in officers' prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, and ascribes it to Canadian prisoners.[5] According to Harvey, the words of the first verse ran:

Have you heard of Lydia Pinkum,
And her love for the human race?
How she sells (she sells, she sells) her wonderful compound,
And the papers publish her face?
In many versions, the complaints which the compound had cured were highly ribald in nature. During the Prohibition era (1920–33) in the United States, the medicine (like other similar patent medicines) had
a particular appeal as a readily available 40-proof alcoholic drink, and it is likely that this aided the popularity of the song. A version of the song was the unofficial regimental song of the Royal Tank Corps during World War II."

 

Wow that's quite a reply Shed mate, but I still don't have a scooby!.

 

I hadn't until I googled it pmsl

 

Yeah I think we need to get together in the shed lol, and discuss it over a few drinks.
But hey guys, are there any fans on here, who remember and like this song ?.

 

Yes I remember it being in the charts and I liked listening to it. It was one of those light hearted, quirky pieces from this Liverpool group. Crazy lyrics like: “Lily the Pink she. Turned to drink she. Filled up with paraffin inside”.

They don’t write them like that any more!

 

Well i certainly do ,but blown away with sheds last thread.

 

Fascinating.

 

My brother's favourite karaoke song

 

We used to sing this at primary school. It was in one of the songbooks, presumably not a pure hymn book, that were used in assemblies, etc. It was one of the more popular ones we sang, as the lyrics were funny, so had far more resonance than 'Morning Has Broken', etc.

I shared a class with @Metatarsal, so hopefully he can confirm that I'm not losing my mind in remembering this. Was it Mrs Williams who used to play the piano in those assemblies? She wasn't a teacher, but she was very talented on the ivories, so was always used for music assemblies, school plays, etc.

 

Are you sure……
She's got a sister
And God only knows how I've missed her
And on the palm of her hand is a blister

 

No, don’t know that one. Is it a Burt Bacharach composition?

 

No it's one Roy knocked off with a flick of his wrist lol

 

I remember the song had the word “ efficacious “ in it and I didn’t know what it meant then and I still don’t !

 

Now we know what shed does in his shed! I’ll be round in an hour for some of your illicit liquor!

 

Did you wish that you’d kissed her?

 

No mentioning fister

 

I think John Gorman the bald one was the phantom pie flinger off Tiswas and OTT.

 

Nearly but not quite!

 

Or did you realise she was a mister?