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Can You Name This Tune?..
Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Started conversation Jun 8, 2002
this is baffling me..i can only remember 2 lines..&..i think it's from the 70s..would like to know the title..&..who sang it..
#The best things in life are free,
you can give them to the birds & bees,
i want money#
or was very simular to that..can anyone remember..?..
..
emmily 
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Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) Posted Jun 8, 2002
...er
a little known band from the 60's called
The Beatles.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 8, 2002
Rather brilliantly covered by The Flying Lizards, which *may* be the version you are thinking of...
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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Posted Jun 8, 2002
thanks..
..but..i don't recognise those..i'm sure when i see it..i'll think.."that's it..that's the one"..
emmily
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Mina Posted Jun 8, 2002
That's definitelt the track emmily. 
Also used as an American Express advert.
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Jun 8, 2002
I second that.First by the Beatles and then by the Flying Lizards.An example of a cover actually being as good as the original.
Incog.
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Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) Posted Jun 8, 2002
There was a cover version with the lyrics spoken in deadpan
by a Chinese or Japanese lady and a very clangy piano beat.
Was that the Flying Lizards or another cover ??
alec.
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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Posted Jun 8, 2002
..everyone..my memory is a joke..
..maybe i'm remembering it from the advert..which could be why my brain is not making the connection to your answers..does that make sense..
..
emmily
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skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires Posted Jun 8, 2002
*grrrrrrrrrrrr* Just give me some time to find the record...
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skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires Posted Jun 8, 2002
I have it around here and I at least lovED the song...
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Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) Posted Jun 8, 2002
me too...so poignant
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jun 8, 2002
cha cha cha
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cha cha cha
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cha cha cha
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(deadpan voice)
The best things in life are free
(sounding petulant)
But you can give them to the birds and bees I want money
The Flying Lizards
(original by the Beatles)
Can You Name This Tune?..
Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Posted Jun 8, 2002
ok....it must be..The Flying Lizards version..i was trying to rememerber..it was a deadpan voice....again everyone..due to my access here..it's very likely i won't be able to access this thread again..i'll write down..Money-The Flying Lizards..so i don't forget it again....
emmily
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skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires Posted Jun 9, 2002
As far as I remember they did another version with COUGHED (!) rhythm tracks...
skugga
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Cloviscat Posted Jun 9, 2002
Loved Gnomon's version!
That has just inspired a dreadful idea:
On-line, text-based Pop Idol!
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GreyDesk Posted Jun 9, 2002
I thought the Flying Lizards version was the original. But then I'm of the right age to have had no memory of the Beatles, yet to be geting into music about the time that the Flying Lizards etc took off.
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Mu Beta Posted May 24, 2008
**stumbles across thread**
Sorry, I couldn't let a monumental error like this go untouched, even six years on.
The original (and best) 'Money' was actually by Barrett Strong.
B
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- 1: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jun 8, 2002)
- 2: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Jun 8, 2002)
- 3: Zak T Duck (Jun 8, 2002)
- 4: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Jun 8, 2002)
- 5: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jun 8, 2002)
- 6: Mina (Jun 8, 2002)
- 7: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Jun 8, 2002)
- 8: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Jun 8, 2002)
- 9: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jun 8, 2002)
- 10: skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires (Jun 8, 2002)
- 11: skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires (Jun 8, 2002)
- 12: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Jun 8, 2002)
- 13: Gnomon - time to move on (Jun 8, 2002)
- 14: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jun 8, 2002)
- 15: skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires (Jun 9, 2002)
- 16: Cloviscat (Jun 9, 2002)
- 17: GreyDesk (Jun 9, 2002)
- 18: Mu Beta (May 24, 2008)
- 19: Gnomon - time to move on (May 24, 2008)
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