Monty Python - I Bet You They Won't Play This Song...

[robertgrant]

I remember hearing this on the radio here many many years ago. Thanks for the laugh...

[KaldorDraigo]

This song still has me in (bell)-ing stitches

[BigWesLawns]

I haven't heard this in years. Searched for it a year ago, no luck. thx for posting it.
and just for the record I'm almost 50 and have never heard this song on the radio.

[PennineLad]

The first single I ever bought was MP's "I like Chinese", I have absolutely no idea why this was the B side. Very nostalgic for those early teen years

[rasmusem]

I just heard this song on Danish radio a few days ago. Made me chuckle quite a bit.

Interesting Fact: A few years earlier German singer Frank Zander did a similar song (similar style and theme, not same melody or lyrics). He was announcing how he wanted to record his first original song, which was perfect for the young people of the 1970s, but his manager (in some versions the manager of the TV station he was performing) removed all profanity and it was replaced by sounds, like here. Only the words weren't really profanity but rather harmless words like in the line "We drank [censored] with orange juice" or "You told me, you will get a [censored]" (based on the rhyme the word would be "child").

[rozzie]

I was a kid when I heard this record. At the time I didn't get the jokes, but I liked the funny noises they made.

[pettifogger]

Any South Africans reading this who listened to Radio 5 during the late 1980’s-early 1990’s will remember Barney Simon playing this...often!! 😂

[chrissystepford]

Ahhh, the random stuff taking up brain space. Love it!

[RooNexus]

- LYRICS -

I bet you they won’t play this song on the radio
I bet you they won’t play this new 🤬 song
It’s not that it’s 🚛 or 🚗 controversial
Just that the 🛎 words are awfully strong

You can’t say 🤡 on the radio
Or 🏹 or 🎯 or 😱
You can’t even say I’d like to 🪀 you some day
Unless you’re a doctor with a very large 📍

So I bet you they won’t play this song on the radio
I bet you that they 📀 won’t program it
I bet you the 💵 old program directors
Will think it’s a load of horse 💩

[Mudgrove]

I remember this as a kid the B side to "I like Chinese"

[jeffacallaway]

BTW, I did in fact get them to play this song on the radio.

[tylerleemyles]

sounds like tom petty (the music, not eric idle).

[tommasopellegrini]

You won't believe me but the playback interrupts at 7 seconds. That's funny nonetheless.

[Jazz-dctf]

long live hyoomore, and long fahk tax system. :)