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...fish is now back on the Friday menu, thanks to the Bishops of England and Wales - but how many Catholics realise that it is a Church requirement that we must also engage in a fish dance on Fridays also?
A brief training clip follows:-
ROFL! Thanks Richard.
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ReplyDeleteWho will take notice to the Bishops directive, especially in this economic climate: Fish is more expensive then Meat! Great post.
frOM STUDENT CROSS 1969, in the days when Catholics were dropping from 50% of the prison population , but were still in there, , write this song whosoever, and catholic inmates had meant meatless Friday fish, not just in Strangeways prison.(The only UK public building in neomazarabic style.
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There’s fish every Friday there’s fish 3 foot wide
It covers up the plate, and hangs over the side
You can tell that it's Friday, just by the smell
Cause the fish have all done time in the Strangeways Hotel"
Full song as sung walsinghamwards late sixties:
Last Saturday night I got into a fight
I woke up on Monday in a hell of a fright
Cause the judge said 'Young feller, you're bound for a spell
Of six months hard labour atthe Stangeways Hotel'
Chorus:
Too-ra-loo, I can tell, hula ula
They've (+ or – some) bloody/very strange ways in/at the Strangeways Hotel
It's porridge each morning it's strong and it's thick
It clogs up the drains and puts hairs on your... elbows
And how do they make more up when one lot's all spent
They mix two loads of sand up with one of cement
Chorus
There’s fish every Friday there’s fish 3 foot wide
It covers up the plate, and hangs over the side
You can tell that it's Friday, just by the smell
Cause the fish have all done time in the Strangeways Hotel
Chorus
Well, we don't sleep like tops and we don't sleep like logs
Coz the bedbugs have feet like colliers clogs
They bite you and pinch you and they wrestle you as well
Then they kick you out of bed in the Strangeways Hotel
Chorus
Well, the Wardens, they read bedtime stories at night
Then tuck as all in, and turn out the light
And then give us a big kiss - to make sure we sleep well….
They've some bloody strange ways in the Strangeways Hotel!
75 recording on youtube, slightly different lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADSk8n3UldE
Bring back fish on friday and 25%population catholic, poor and with big families. They may weel imprison the lot of us, and we wouldn't hit 50% again!
But there are alternatives to expensive fresh fish. There are fish cakes/fingers often on offer at supermarkets, tinned sardines, (good for your bones), left-over fresh fish scraps in a mash-topped pie.
ReplyDeleteBut it doesn't have to be fish. How about egg and chips, or an omelette, pasta with a veggie sauce, or veg curry.