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# I'm learning to play the ukulele at the moment...
I can play C and G and have a blister on my finger.
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:44, archived)
# beware boxers v ukelele players


Ali v Formby was a claissic
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:47, archived)
# hehe
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:48, archived)
# brill
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:53, archived)
# That's next....
as soon as I can afford one...
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:09, archived)
# i played one the other day
not my bag at all,
far too brash
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:12, archived)
# A friend of mine has a gitanjo.
A six string banjo tuned like a guitar...
The sound from it is immense, But it was £600 :-(
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:33, archived)
# 6 strings? Pah!
I have (somewhere) a Framus 12 string banjo. Takes a week to restring and tune, weighs a ton and is truly horrible!
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:37, archived)
# Are we still allowed to call a jew's harp a jew's harp?
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:53, archived)
# Yes as long as there are no Jews in the room.
(, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 2:16, archived)
# Fuck yeah.
(, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 10:23, archived)
# keep at it!
i've been playing a while and i can manage c & g too :)
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:47, archived)
# "I can play C and G and have a blister on my finger..."
was the first line of George Formby's little known 1924 hit "Eeeeee..by 'eck, y'wanker..."

The chorus ran: "Turned out nice again....E=MC2"
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:54, archived)
# I can play C and G and have a blister on my finger
I'm an ugly motherfucker
and a truly awful singer

I ply my trade in blackpool docks
singer for my supper
or sucking sailers cocks

Eee by 'eck you wanker
go and fuck yourself
I'm a cheeky northern bastard
and i live on a small shelf*

*ran out of rhymes there, sorry
and it doesn't scan that well either
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:59, archived)
# Got the tabs?
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:10, archived)
# he usually hangs around on /links
:D
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:13, archived)
# Well remembered, mictoboy!
Brought tears to my eyes...Formby often claimed to run out of rhymes. He has since been exposed as an opium fiend.
I think the song featured in the 1927 black and white talkie "Wahey, Mrs Brown - Time for Frottage" ?

You'll remember the wanking scene.
(, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 13:07, archived)
# Peter Sellers also played the uke
Hear him here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb4o_4FqMM0
Also, see if you can find some stuff by the foremost ukulele punk band, Uke 'til you Puke.
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:04, archived)
# also
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:07, archived)
# Have a Blister on my Finger?
I haven't heard that - who's it by?
(, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 23:09, archived)