Day 3 - A Song That Makes You Happy

So not quite Day 3, after travelling it has taken me a little while to find the time!

Now this was a song that I had obviously heard before but it hadn't really made such an impact as it has recently.

when we lived in Wales a popular TV series began called Gavin and Stacey. Fantastic series, very funny!!! When we then moved to Saudi it was in it's final series, so we managed to watch it on download. Eased the homesickness! Bryn and Nessa did a cover of this song, so perfectly executed and hilarious!!!

I hadn't thought much more about this song until a few months ago. We introduced the series to Erika. not in reality we didn't think she would get it. It is very British - moreso the cultural divide between England and Wales! But she did get it and we spent night after night falling about in laughter watching it (with the odd translation for Erika!!)

This time round the Nessa and Bryn song had a totally different impact on us, absolute hilarity!! And ever since these marvellous evenings spent with Erika I smile with a thousand memories at the sound of this song! This song will always make me smile, will always remind me of Erika and the time we spent together in Saudi and always remind me of friendship and the fun times had and the fun times to be had!

I would, if I could, choose the Nessa and Bryn version but there doesn't seem to be a full version so I have chosen the original.

the song - Islands In The Stream - Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.





Baby when I met you
there was peace unknown
I set out to get you
with a fine tooth comb
I was soft inside
there was somethin' going on

You do something to me
that I can't explain
Hold me closer and I feel no pain
Every beat of my heart
We got somethin' goin on

Tender love is blind
It requires a dedication
All this love we feel
Needs no conversation
We ride it together, ah-ah
Makin' love with each other, ah-ah

(chorus)
Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong?
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

I can't live without you
if the love was gone
Everything is nothin'
if you got no one
And you did walk in tonight
slowly losing sight of the real thing

But that wont happen to us
and we got no doubt
Too deep in love and
we got no way out
and the message is clear
This could be the year
for the real thing

No more will you cry
Baby I will hurt you never
We start and end as one
in love forever
We can ride it together, ah-ah
Makin' love with each other, ah-ah

(chorus)

Sail away
Oh come sail away with me, with me

(chorus)

(repeat to fade)

Day 2 - Your Least Favourite Song!

Well this song is beyond my least favourite - I absolutely HATE it!!!! This song makes me uncomfortable, sickly and cringe! It conjures up images of a fat, sweaty, drunk and smelly pervy man sat in a council bedsit perving! YUK YUK YUK!!!!!!

Unfortunately my husband loves it and thinks it’s so funny!!???!!

The words are horrid, the theme is gross and it just isn't funny. Now I will quite happily listen to crude songs, funny crude songs, but it is as if this one just goes too far and I could quite happily never listen to this song again for the rest of my life!

In fact I detest this song so much I can't bring myself to grace it's presence with too many of my words!

The song – Sweaty Betty by the Macc Lads.





She wore big knickers and she worked at the sewage farm.
Got my hands down her jeans and I nearly lost half my arm.
But after ten pints, she looked quite fit,
Couldn’t wait to get my hands on her flabby tits.
So I said, Slap that and ride the ripples,
I just got to get my gob round her greasy nipples.
Flabby arse, sweaty breasts, thirty eight chins,
she was a mound of flesh.
Sweaty Betty, she eats a lot of pies,
Sweaty Betty, she’s got enormous thighs,
Sweaty Betty, have you smelled her breath?
Sweaty Betty, she’d crush a man to death.
I knew that she wanted me to shag her,
so I stabbed her cunt with my mutton dagger.
I couldn’t believe the size of her bum,
She used to play for Wigan at the back of the scrum.
I’ve seen nowt like it since the day I was born,
But you know me, I’ll shag owt that’s warm.
Sweaty Betty, she eats a lot of chips,
Sweaty Betty, she’s got massive tits,
Sweaty Betty, she’s got a huge vagina,
Sweaty Betty, you’d fit a bus inside her,
She’s so obscene, three tons of margarine,
She’s like a lump of lard
But Sweaty Betty makes my willy hard.