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Post by The man from Utch on Aug 1, 2020 22:47:44 GMT
Trying to explain to my American missus what a cockney is, what I seem to remember from 70's was a song that began "I Ain't seen a cockney since I don't know when" (Generalizing all londoners to be cockney) , anyone remember this song. Walk with a wobble ?
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Post by somersetstokie on Aug 1, 2020 22:59:39 GMT
A Cockney description of someone, often disparaging, but sometimes "affectionate" is generally now applied to anyone from a loosely defined area of London around the East End such as Whitechapel and Shoreditch. The East Enders themselves considered that to be a true "Cockney" you had to be born within the sound of Bow Bells, (church of St Mary le Bow). The famous Cockney dialect is the form of speech used in those areas.
Don't know nuffin about no song though.
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Post by Scouse on Aug 2, 2020 6:37:46 GMT
Utch
Song you’re thinking about is Tennessee Wig Walk ..sung amongst others by country western / rocker billy singer Bonnie Lou
I'm a bow-legged chicken, I'm a knock-kneed hen Never been so happy since I don't know when I walk with a wiggle and a giggle and a squawk Doin' the Tennessee Wigwalk.
Many football incarnations of it
Latest is the Mancs ( taken up by Stoke ) we never win at home and we never win away
Early version you’re thinking of
A knock kneed chicken and a bow legged hen I haven't seen ( a cockney / scouser / Geordie ) had a fight since I don't know when I walk with a widdle and I wont give a w.nk We are the ..#####.........(which ever team or End of ground)Boot boys(Aggro)
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Post by str8outtahampton on Aug 2, 2020 12:17:41 GMT
Utch Song you’re thinking about is Tennessee Wig Walk ..sung amongst others by country western / rocker billy singer Bonnie Lou I'm a bow-legged chicken, I'm a knock-kneed hen Never been so happy since I don't know when I walk with a wiggle and a giggle and a squawk Doin' the Tennessee Wigwalk. Many football incarnations of it Latest is the Mancs ( taken up by Stoke ) we never win at home and we never win away Early version you’re thinking of A knock kneed chicken and a bow legged hen I haven't seen ( a cockney / scouser / Geordie ) had a fight since I don't know when I walk with a widdle and I wont give a w.nk We are the ..#####.........(which ever team or End of ground)Boot boys(Aggro) And here - for Mr Utch's girlfriend - is a posh version of the same song, but with slightly different lyrics. Mr Donald Howe declared to Mr William Shankly: "Are you familiar with the Borealic Incline, Highbury?" Mr Shankly's response was in the negative - "So far as I am aware, the reputation of the aforementioned terraced standing area has not been vouchsafed to me". The latter then continued: "I am, however, conscious of the existence of the bebooted young men of the Boothen locality within the North Staffordshire agglomeration (in so far, of course, as consciousness, or even existence itself for that matter, are phenomena that can be recognised)".
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Post by knockkneedchicken on Aug 2, 2020 12:35:31 GMT
As you can see from my username, I remember this chant from the 1970s
As I remember it, it went
A knock-kneed chicken and a bow-legged hen I haven’t had a scrap since I don’t know when I don’t give a widdle and I don’t give a wank We are the Boothen Boot Boys
They don’t write ‘em like that anymore. 😀
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Post by Gods on Aug 2, 2020 13:04:12 GMT
Went up to Shank and I asked if he Ever heard of Stoke City Shank said 'No, I don't think so I've heard of the Boothen, aggro!
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Post by stokefc on Aug 2, 2020 13:10:38 GMT
Stokie aggro Stokie aggro whooaa whooaa Seventies terrace talk
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Post by sheds1862 on Aug 2, 2020 13:14:15 GMT
Why is this not in the everything else thread ?
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Post by wagsastokie on Aug 2, 2020 13:32:58 GMT
Why is this not in the everything else thread ? Could be due to the fact it's football related Even if it does relate to the days when most football grounds weren't soulless church halls
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