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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 28 🎶

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 24/04/2021 21:42

Come on in.
Post a few lyrics of a song from 70s, 80s, 90s with the decade & we will try to guess the artist

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RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 02/05/2021 13:10

Oh yes! I do know it coffee. But I'd never have got it.

RIP Victoria

Fleamaker123 · 02/05/2021 13:32

Coffee, did you see the Victoria Wood documentary last night. It reminded me how fantastic she was 😢

Honeyroar your ideas sound fab 👍bet you can't wait

CoffeeBeansGalore · 02/05/2021 13:40

@Fleamaker123 unfortunately no I didn't. But I have seen quite a few over the years & think it is such a shame we lost her so young. I loved the Dinner Ladies series. There are a few of her live performances on YouTube & even though they are 90s they still make me laugh.

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Fleamaker123 · 02/05/2021 16:58

I know what you mean Coffee. My favourite was when she was talking about her legs being so hairy she looked like a faun 😂😂

Honeyroar · 02/05/2021 19:14

Evening everyone! I loved Victoria Wood. Such a talent, both as a comic actress and writer. She’s like Peter Kay to me. She really was a loss. That song was probably my favourite thing that she wrote!

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 02/05/2021 19:41

Isn't there a line in it that goes:
Hit me on the (can't remember the word) with a Woman's Weekly?

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 02/05/2021 19:52

Bottom!

Honeyroar · 02/05/2021 19:53

Beat me on the bottom with my woman’s weekly, I think.

Fleamaker123 · 02/05/2021 19:58

She was brilliant in Housewife 49 too, very sad

CoffeeBeansGalore · 02/05/2021 20:16

Here you go!

Freda and Barry sat one night
The sky was clear, the stars were bright
The wind was soft, the moon was up
Freda drained her cocoa cup.
She licked her lips she felt sublime!
She switched off Gardener's Question Time
Barry Cringed in fear and dread
As Freda Grabbed his tie and said:

Let's do it, let's do it, do it while the mood is right!
I'm feeling, appealing,
I've really got an appetite.
I'm on fire
With desire-
I could handle half the tennors in a male voice choir.
Let's do it, let's do it tonight!

But he said:
I can't do it, I can't do it,
I don't believe in too much sex
This fashion
For passion
Turns us into nervous wrecks.
No derision,
My decision:
I'd rather watch the Spinners on the television.
I can't do it, I can't do it tonight.

So she said
Let's do it, let's do it, do it till our hearts go boom
Go native,
Creative,
Living in the living room.
This folly
For jolly;
Bend me backwards on me hostess trolley!
Let's do it, let's do it tonight.

But he said
I can't do it, I can't do it, my heavy-breathing days are gone.
I'm older, feel colder;
It's other things that turn me on.
I'm inploring-
I'm boring-
Let me read this catalogue on vinyl flooring!
I can't do it, I can't do it tonight.

Then she said
Let's do it, let's do it, have a crazy night of love!
I'll strip bare,
I'll just wear
Stilettos and an oven glove!
Don't starve a girl of a palaver,
Dangle from the wardrope in your balaclava.
Let's do it, let's do it tonight!

But he said
I can't do it, I can't do it,
I know ill only get it wrong.
Don't angle
For me to dangle,
My arms have never been that strong;
Stop pouting!
Stop shouting-
You know I pulled a muscle when I did that grouting.
I can't do it, I can't do it tonight.

Let's do it, let's do it, share a night of wild romance!
Frenetic,
Poetic, this could be your last big chance!
To quote Milton,
To eat stilton,
To roll with gay abandon on the tufted wilton!
Let's do it, let's do it tonight!

I can't do it, I can't do it,
I've got other little jobs on hand.
Don't grouse
Around the house
I've got a busyt evening planned.
Stop nagging!
I'm flagging;
You know as well as i do that the pipes want lagging.
I can't do it, I can't do it tonight.

Let's do it, let's do it, while I'm really in The mood...
Three cheers!
It's years
Since I caught you even semi-nude.
Get drasitic,
Gymnastic-
Wear your baggy Y-fronts with the loose elastic but
Let's do it, Let's do it tonight!

I can't do it, I can't do it,
I must refuse to get undressed
I feel silly.
It's to chilly
To go with out my thermal vest.
Don't choose me,
Don't use me
My mother sent a note to say you must excuse me.
I can't do it, I can't do it tonight.

Let's do it, let's do it, I really apsolutly must.
I won't exempt you,
Want to temp you,
Want to drive you mad with lust.
No contortions:
Smear an avocardo on my lower portions!
Let's do it, let's do it tonight!

I can't do it, I can't do it,
It's really not my cup of tea;
I'm harassed,
Embarrassed;
I wish you hadn't picked on me.

No barter —
A non-starter;
I feel about as sensuous as Jimmy Carter
I can't do it, can't do it tonight.

Let's do it, let's do it, I really want to run amock!
Let's wriggle!
Let's jiggle!
Let's really make the rafters rock!
Be mighty,
Be flighty come and melt the buttons on my flame-proof nightie!
Let's do it, let's do it tonight!

Let's do it, let's do it, I really want to rant and rave!
Let's go,
Cos i know just
Just how you want to behave:
Not bleakly,
Not meekly-
Beat me on the bottom with the Woman's weekly-
Let's do it, let's do it tonight!

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 02/05/2021 20:19

@Fleamaker123 Yes I remember Housewife, 49. An immensely talented lady. I remember finding out she had married "The Great Suprendo" from Crackerjack!

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Fleamaker123 · 02/05/2021 20:27

😂😂 Come and melt the buttons on my flame proof nightie... brilliant stuff

CoffeeBeansGalore · 02/05/2021 20:29

Love this skit as well

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Honeyroar · 02/05/2021 20:47

Yes! The arerobics class! Grapevine! 🤣

Fleamaker123 · 02/05/2021 20:50

Excellent 😂

WhipperSnapperSteve · 02/05/2021 21:35

Have a good week everyone, my bloomin' tablets been kicking off all weekend....

CoffeeBeansGalore · 02/05/2021 21:48

Hello Steve, medical or technical? 😁

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RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 02/05/2021 23:26

I really like 2 of her sketches in particular.

One where as part of it there's a saleswoman doing her patter.

And one about children where she says she was a great mum to her first child (list of examples) and when she had her second she couldn't be bothered. So there's a line about 'when I wanted to know how tall, I measured the snot on my coat and added a couple of inches". Class!

RogueMNerKnowsNoShame · 02/05/2021 23:27

Hi steve

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 03/05/2021 08:28

Hey Steve! You have a good week too. Hopefully your meds will settle soon. Unless you did mean technical, in which case I have no idea! Grin

NeedToKnow101 · 03/05/2021 08:46

Morning all happy bank holiday! loving the Victoria Wood love 💕 it's inspired a loosely based theme...

  1. Well, don't you worry, baby, don't worry
'Cause I'm right here, right here, right here, Right here at home 70s
  1. Why everything that's supposed to bad make me feel so good?
Everything they told me not to is exactly what I would Man I tried to stop man I tried the best I could But (You make me smile) 00
  1. That's me
I just keep them in stitches Doubled in half And though I may be all wrong for a guy I'm good for a laugh 60s
  1. Box of balloons
With the feather-light touch Pack of party-poppers That pop in the night 80s
  1. Wow bam
You've never been so nuts about a guy You wanna laugh you wanna cry You cross your heart and hope to die 'Til it's over and then... 90s
  1. Making all the music he can make
80s
dexterslockedintheshedagain · 03/05/2021 08:48
  1. Steve Miller Band - The Joker.
  2. Madness - House of fun. Am watching a documentary about them at the moment, it's really good
NeedToKnow101 · 03/05/2021 08:53

Correct Dexter ✅✅ 😘 where can find the documentary. Love a bit of Madness.,

NeedToKnow101 · 03/05/2021 08:55

No-one got this... I think Honey and maybe Steve would know it..

Love tracks, setbacks
All can come back
Pick up on the fact
Take it in stride
Love and devotion
Don't confide
It's the tracks of lost emotion
70s soul disco

Honeyroar · 03/05/2021 11:28

Morning everyone. The only one I recognise is the Madness one. 🤪