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Arnie Schwarzenegger
02:32
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When I was a young boy I lived on St Kilda
All I wanted to be was a bodybuilder
I opened up a comic and I saw his picture
Who’s the man when things get rough?
Arnie Schwarzenegger
He was full of muscles and dynamic tension
He looked a little glaikit which no-one ever mentions
But that is what attracted me – I was a gangly beggar
Who’s the man when things get rough?
Arnie Schwarzenegger
And nobody would ever kick sand in his face
His big ugly face, well it is, isn’t it?
Maybe that’s why he had to fight in the first place
That’s a good point, well made, about ugly face, well it is, isn’t it?
He re-invented himself as a Hollywood actor
Action hero, terminator, get to the chopper
Who’d have thought he would end up a California guvnah?
Who’s your next president?
Arnie Schwarzenegger
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Alexksandr Solzenitsyn
01:59
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Alexksandr Solzenitsyn went to MFI
Got a wardrobe, put all the bits in
He was quite a guy
He wasn't a spy
Oh no
Alexksandr Solzenitsyn went to the Magnet shop
Got himself a fitted kitchen with a burning hob
He was a bit of a nob
He wasn't a spy though
Oh no
He wrote The Gulag Archipelago
You must have read it
What do you mean, No?
He was a big cheese in the 70s
When he got released it was the bees knees
It was on the news and everything
He wasn't a spy though
Oh no
Alexksandr Solzenitsyn had a great big beard
He looked a bit like Daniel Kitson
But not as bloody weird
(Only kidding, Daniel. Love your work. Really.)
He wasn't a spy though
Oh no
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Alexei Sayle
03:12
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Do you remember that shouty skinhead
Too short suits
Allo John, got a new motor
And Doc Marten boots
I heard that he is now being auctioned on E-bay
If you can stump up for his own material they say
It's an Alexei sale
Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle
I put a bid in
Put 50 quid in for a joke
Someone out bid me
For 60 and a bag of coke
He made the song that is the most profane in history
He might write books now
But I liked him when he was sweary
Alexei Sayle, Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle, Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle, Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle, Alexei Sayle
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4. |
Ann Summers
01:55
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Roll up and buy our underwear
From this woman here
She has got shops everywhere
Even in Mayfair
I just go there for sex toys
Not to buy the clothes
I like things that make a noise
Transformer dildos are the boys
The Prince Albert ring was embarrassing
It got stuck and I had to dial 999
You should have seen the fireman's face
When he whipped out his axe
I was all over the place
He said just relax
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Adam Smith
02:14
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He was born in Kirkcaldy
Which they call the Lang Toun
He's not a sfamous as Bill Oddie
Or Gordon Broon
I don't think he got out much
But he was good at his sums
He probably went to Fife College
To write The Wealth Of Nations
Adam Smith - he's a wonderful economist
Adam Smith - big woo hoos
Adam Smith - it's not like he's a novelist
Adam Smith - or Penelope Cruz
Poor wee Adam
He didn't have chums
But he had a system
And he had his sums
He had his life in order, maaan
He should run the banks today
He'd go out with Carol Vorderman
And blow the Goodwin away
Adam Smith - he's a wonderful economist
Adam Smith - big woo hoos
Adam Smith - it's not like he's a novelist
Adam Smith - or Penelope Cruz
Adam Smith - he wasn't a chiropodist
Adam Smith - that something to do with your feet
Adam Smith - he was an economist
Adam Smith - damned neat neat neat
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6. |
Arthur Scargill
02:59
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Nothing could be finer than to be a striking miner
back in 84
From John O'Groats to Dover, a man with a combover
oversaw the war
Arthur Scargill - king of the hill
Man of the people
Arthur Scargill
Thatcher and Macgregor were the enemy together
on the other side
They plotted and they schemed
To kill the mining industry
And sure enough it died
At that time you had to say that's mine
Or share
Nothing's changed or everything has
Who cares?
But let us not hark back to darker days
The scars and scabs have healed now
Haven't they?
The gap between the rich and poor
Is wider than it was before the miners strike
Someone's let the tyres down
And someone made them pop
On Norman Tebbitt's bike
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Andrew Sachs
02:37
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There's no doubt that Fawlty Towers and Manuel
made him a star throughout the land
But his career was rejuvenated
by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand
All it took was just a phone call
to give birth to Sachs and drugs and rock n roll
And there he was on Coronation Street
Playing the half brother of Norris Cole
These are the facts
Bout Andrew Sachs
He has a knack
Of bouncing back
He said he's back above the water
thanks to Brand and his goddaughter in the sack
He was not related to Leonard Sachs
from The Good Old Days
who knew how to drag out a convoluted
and alliterative phrase
So just to clear that up
They're not related
But Leonard appears in this song
Because I couldn't think of anything that Andrew's done
To make it last that long
These are the facts
He didn't come from Barcelona but Berlin
Coronation Street and Fawlty Towers is all that he's been in
He pays his tax
He wasn't in Mad Max
(You can tell I'm really grasping at straws eh?)
But on the outside he's a joker
Play Shut Up Ya Face, well that is pretty sad
Take it away, Leonard...
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8. |
Alison Steadman
03:09
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I first saw Steadman on my TV
In a great play called Abigail's Party
Sh'e always been round
She's always been there for me
She is the best thing
On Gavin and Stacey
Alison Steadman
Queen of them all
I'll be your Bogart
If you'll be my Bacall
You've even been in
You'll Have Had Your Tea
I love you in anything
By Mike Leigh
There's been so many
Great parts you have played
The Singing Detective
Let There Be Cake
I saw you once on the tube in real life
You stood right opposite
I was mesmerised
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9. |
Albert Schweitzer
02:51
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Albert Schweitzer spent his nights a-dreaming of philosophy
Universal ethics anchored in global reality
Someone has to, I suppose
If anybody asks
Albert knows
Albert Schweitzer wore black tights
A remedy for cold evenings
Challenged traditional christians
He got the Nobel Peace Prize - jings!
Someone has to, I suppose
If anybody asks
Albert knows
A musical scholar
Perfect pitch and tone
He could've been taller
If he'd left his organ alone
Albert, Albert, Albert, Albert
Albert Schweitzer had some fights
Along with other brainy geezers
He won his repute with the Quest Of The Historical Jesus
Someone has to, I suppose
If anybody asks
Albert knows
Alsatian, German and French
They wouldn't leave Albert on the bench
Albert Schweitzer - he did right, sir
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10. |
Andy Stewart
02:27
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He always sang 'Donald Where's Yer Troosers'
That made me really depressed
An anthem for shabby fashion losers
Whose idea of haute couture is a string vest
One of the White Heather Club hay bale stars
A skirl and a swirl in a kilt
Oh, and if you mention deep fried mars bars
I'm gonnae have to get you killed
Andy Stewart, Andy Stewart, Andy Stewart
Tartan shortbread
Andy Stewart, Andy Stewart, Andy Stewart
A long time dead
Andy Stewart
Skean dhu
Campbelltown Loch's all whisky noo
There was a Scottish soldier
Was another one of his tunes
I don't remember him getting older
Maybe he ended up in The Broons
Andy Stewart, Andy Stewart, Andy Stewart
Tartan shortbread
Andy Stewart, Andy Stewart, Andy Stewart
A long time dead
Andy Stewart
Skean dhu
Campbelltown Loch's all whisky noo
The wind blows high, the wind blows low
Sometimes rain, sometimes snow
What is this? A weather forecast?
Donald, where's your head at?
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Alastair Stewart
01:49
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Alastair Stewart used to present
A show about police car chases and accidents
Then he was done for driving drunk and disorderly
I hope he appreciated the irony
He used to present News At Ten
When Trevor Macdonald had a break now and then
He’s slick and he’s sickly and I don’t know why
I’m even singing about this guy
There are more important things in this world
Than ex newsreaders who make everybody hurl
There is pestilence and war and hate
But Al has covered all of them, so great
Aren’t we all lucky living in the multimedia
If you don’t know Al, look him up on Wikipedia
My interest in him is waning all along
It’s time to abruptly terminate this song
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12. |
Anwar Sadat
03:13
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Anwar Sadat was third president of Egypt
He and his government were liked for a while
But this soon abated
In 1981 he was assassinated
There was a fatwah on Mohammed Anwar Sadat
Who knew that Egypt could be so volatile
I suppose you would get sick of the pyramids after a while
But they've got the sphinx
And they don't have Gadaffi
These are good reasons to not get trigger happy
There was a fatwah on Mohammed Anwar Sadat
Anwar oh Anwar
When Sadat was their favourite president
He didn't even wear a fez
No wonder he was killed by a trooper
He was less popular than Tommy Cooper
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Andrews Sisters
02:10
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The boogie woogie bugle boy of company B
Went out with an Andrews sister, 1943
He couldn't remember which one - it was one of the three
Maxine Anglyn, Laverne Sophia, Patty
The Lady Boys of Bangkok had a similar dilemma
Although, of course in their case it was different, however
They never sang close harmonies or even a capella
And anyway none of the Andrews Sisters was a fellah
1953 was their career low
When Patty decided to go solo
It was a bitter breakup
They knew they had to fix
But sure enough they all made up
In 1956
They flirted for a while with rock n roll
But this infatuation really took its toll
They lost sight of their career goal
But they dug themselves out of that hole
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14. |
Alastair Sim
02:31
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When you were in pictures
You had us in stitches
Sad eyes that sang
With your hangdog sneer
Respectable veneer
And Edinburgh twang
Alastair Sim
We all love where you've been
St Trinians
Ebenezer
Ronnie Corbett's choice
Was to say you had the voice
Of a fastidious ghoul
When you played Miss Fritton
Everyone was smitten
And the same with Scrooge
Alastair Sim
We all love where you've been
St Trinians
Ebenezer
Alastair Sim
I loved you in
An Inspector Calls, The Green Man
And Geordie
So let's raise a gin
To Alastair Sim
Not a carnival,
Man of distinction and glory
What a story
Alastair
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15. |
Alexander Selkirk
02:50
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Alexander Selkirk - he came from Largo
He was better known as Robinson Crusoe
He lived on an island surrounded by the sea
He didn't have a mobile
It was the 18th century!
He had a man Friday
and Saturday and Sunday too
But no one talks about that
It's kind of taboo
Alexander - the philanderer
Had a fling with a giant panda
And a goose
And a gander
Looked a bit like Colonel Sanders
Finger licking good - yeah
It was just a novel
by Daniel Defoe
I had it on audiotape
by Yoko Ono
Now it is a musical
Ben Elton has the rights
It's very tasteful
It's called 'I Will Survive'
Alexander - the philanderer
Had a fling with a giant panda
And a goose
And a gander
Looked a bit like Colonel Sanders
Finger licking good - yeah
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16. |
Alan Sugar
02:17
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Dear Alan
Sugar Sugar
I'm a Nigerian business man
And you've got me wanting you
Oh Alan
Sugar Sugar
I have a foolproof plan
Listen, I'll tell you what to do
Just send me your bank account details in an email, ooh
And I will sort out the rest
I have wads of cash which I cannot get access to
Which I think we should invest
Oh Alan
Sugar Sugar
I'm a Nigerian business man
And you've got me wanting you
A thousand quid would be delicious
I could launder it through my man in Mauritius
We could make life so sweet
Hey, hey, hey
I'm t-t-t-t-totally wired
I love it when you point and say ,'You're fired!'
We could make life complete
Hey, hey, hey
Pour some sugar on me
Oh Alan
Sugar Sugar
I'm a Nigerian business man
And you've got me wanting you
Oh Alan
Sugar Sugar
Not as beardy as Rich Branson
But you've got me wanting you
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Alex Salmond
02:18
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Sometimes it's hard to be Nicola Sturgeon
Giving all your love to just one man
First he's in London
Then Banff and Buchan
Doing things that you don't understand
But at least he's not in the Bahamas
Where staunch Scot Shorn Canary stays
Voting SNP
Beneath the palm trees
But after all, he's just a prat
Alex Salmond
Give him two jobs to cling to
And the bookies to turn to
When nights get cold and lonely
Alex Salmond
Even Brian Souter loves him
Keep giving all the funds you can
Alex Salmond
Alex Salmond
Linlithgow really loves him
A black bitch and a Jambo fan
Alex Salmond
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