The Ying Tong Song

The Ying Tong Song by Spike Milligan

[@MrDavil43]

I could never understand why this isn't our National Anthem

[@Teapot333]

I totally agree

[@susansherlock6934]

With all the crap going on and leaders lying, the Queen lying to the population about the jabs ...this is needed...

[@bobomac8330]

Indeed.

[@amayastrata4629]

The way this country is going I think it’s probably appropriate.

[@gennibeaumont737]

@Davil, Oh Eccles!!!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🥕🥕🥕

[@JustAboutTime]

I’m still astounded that I can sing this song, with all the stupid noises .. with no problems whatsoever. Best childhood ever!

[@chrisyoung5929]

And I bet you can still walk backwards for Christmas as well!

[@caroleast9636]

@@chrisyoung5929that’s on the flip side of my disc👍

[@georgeobrien9748]

Haven't heard this in years. What a classic.

[@peters6601]

I'm walking backwards for christmas across the Irish Sea!!

[@caroleast9636]

On the flip side of the ying tong song

[@juleshathaway3894]

@@caroleast9636 And I may still have the Goons original single somewhere!!😁

[@fanglesghost5926]

Have you tried walking sideways, and walking to the front?

[@juliehock6059]

A gang of old blokes being silly - love it!

[@philipgrae]

This brought tears to my eyes. Such utter madness, in a childhood remembered

[@normanwoods2279]

Only the British would/could laugh at such a thing. Aren't we a wonderful race of people?.

[@JollyGraham]

We used to be!

[@kdjlc]

I’m American and have loved the goons and this song for years! 😊

[@normanwoods2279]

Pleased you like it. You must also be a wonderful race of people.

[@carolynellis387]

Absolutely loved this Ying Tong as a kid. Then I bought Spikes book of ppoetry for kids, he was brilliant.

[@jonathanjeffreys3007]

Brilliant. Marvellous re-creation of the Goons. Totally wonderful and very funny.

[@anthonyjohnsaliba3814]

Thank you BBC. We sure need this type of comedy today more than ever. Keep it going.

[@iSuRRendeReDuK]

Love Spikes stuff, but the BBC is where comedy goes to die nowerdays...

[@helenreidt3315]

I grew up with the wonderful Goons in my life..😂😂💕 brings my father right back to me...and not a swear word to heard

[@Gill-Leeds]

just crazy fun, found myself singing along, more please

[@HannibalFan52]

I'd love to see these gents recreate 'The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea' or 'China Story'

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

'Ying tong iddle i po'. Such deeply profound lyrics! And bloody hilarious with it.

[@solentbum]

We used to sing this on the school bus.

[@paulshorney3465]

This was played at the funeral of a friend of my wife's,as they filed out it was played. The laughter at a funeral was something to see! 😂

[@TheRealMugglemind]

Was played at my uncle's funeral a few years back. Not the most typical song for a funeral. 😂

[@juliehock6059]

A friend of mine wants “wish me luck as you wave me goodbye” sung at hers as the coffin slides into the furnace.

[@paulshorney3465]

@@juliehock6059 echo beach by Martha and the muffins for me!

[@Thenakedforager]

That’s a beautiful gesture, she must’ve had a cheeky outlook on life. Personally I choose to think we should celebrate a life rather than mourn a death. I do hope your friend is ok.x

[@paulshorney3465]

@@Thenakedforager it was my wife's friend's husband and he was a real character! A few years ago now👍

[@paulandrewjennion1770]

I remember when it was the charts in the Summer of 1973, I was Eleven years old back then, spending my first year in Clock Face, St Helens, then in Lancashire, in those days you would hear all kinds of crazy songs in the British charts back then, unlike today's charts nothing but trash. That is why I stopped listening to the charts now.

[@byronlawsonjoce7562]

Ah happy memories. I saw this show live . Colin Elmer was especially good as Spike!

[@VivraPatriciaBeene]

It's missing (after at least one of the "crashes") the phrase "He's fallen in the water...." What memories. I was lucky enough to meet the whole Goon Gang when I worked at a theater in Southport many, many, years ago.

[@chrisdavey45]

ihave neen singimg this song to myself for years im 67 and its great to this version

[@michaellyall6528]

Absolutely love this song!

[@copycat21c]

OMG! I haven’t sung this in years!

[@irishfergal]

The song to which I cocked my young ears when it came on BBC radio. Thank goodness for Spike Milligan.

[@tombombadil9123]

the guy impersonating Spike did a good job. but you can't recreate real madness

[@richardpotter712]

A very English laugh. It`s a yes from me.

[@paulhill196]

This song makes a lot of sense to me or do I need help lol

[@Spitalhatch]

A worthy tribute. They don't make them like that any more...😋

[@martythemartian99]

They wouldn't dare ;)

[@andreedowns4561]

LOVED BY KINGS THE WORLD OVER !!!!

[@theobolt250]

Ah comedy of olden days. Required knowing half a rhyme and halve a verse. For the rest? Being as silly as you could muster. Simple fun.

[@JR-iw8du]

Brilliant 😂😂😂😂 I loved the Goons

[@richardburningham5789]

KZbin took me straight from Bruckner 5 to this! The Goons had finished before I was born (but not too much....) and I've always loved the silliness. Still on Radio 4 Extra every Tuesday (I think) at 7PM. Glorious.

[@roseogrady8785]

Brilliant.

[@paullawrence4986]

Madder than a box of brushes🤣👌😭

[@doreenlloyd4885]

So funny

[@JohnJ469]

Basil Brushes?

[@JollyGraham]

Well done, a worthy effort.

[@sterrissar]

memories still a good laugh

[@StevenCampbell1955]

Well that was as excruciating as being hit with a sock full of custard.

[@thetattooedangler]

only a very few will get the reference i think.

[@philipbonner6486]

Brilliant

[@klackon1]

All three (and Bentine) were barking mad, of course. Bloody funny: but barking mad. I still own a copy of the Goon Show scripts and they kept me amused for a number of years, both on the TV and radio. I was unaware there was a tribute to the Goons. I watched the tribute to Round the Horn (my favourite radio comedy of all time), and that was a top job.

[@paulandrewjennion1770]

I would always watch The Michael Bentine show, because he was crazy but very funny indeed.

[@sixfootbear]

Oh bloody well done!

[@andrewstratford4753]

Brilliant brings it all back to my childhood being silly its the way forward in this dark world surprised nobody has objected to it.

[@richardhart7652]

Well done lads

[@simonline1194]

They don’t make ‘em like this any more (and people wonder why Britain has gone down the pan)?! It’s being so silly that keeps us sane! 😂 Simonline

[@lorrainebarlow3955]

Love it love it love ❤

[@annettewalter2273]

Love it 😊😊😊

[@cecilias_shorts]

First time I've ever heard this and loved it 🐨🇦🇺

[@janflower4068]

Classis!

[@berndmannstein7589]

Tolle Darbietung - ich überlege, ob er auf meiner Beerdigung gespielt werden soll!

[@nambc777]

Mach das! 🤣🤣😇

[@kyleroy2226]

Remembwer this song when I was a kid.....

[@BreyonnaMorgan18]

It sounds country af. A fanfic brought me here.

[@davidlewis726]

Bliss with custard!

[@chrismaguire3667]

Don't you mean batter pudding?😂😂😂😂

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Bloody hell. You try to teach the kidx, and along comes those lunatics with a song/excuse. Lol.🥰 Xxxxxxxx

[@robertross1079]

Perry wheeler,remember this in your flat (Cornish hse) .bibby

[@bingohall1333]

A lovely rendition of this ditty. I can see the crow's, circling around their fossilised socks. Bring me a plate of monkeys on the knees with chips please and don't schimp on the hot plate, I want it hot. Love mum can I have my bedtime story now and a freshly squeeze glass of Loch Lomond water out of a stone. Missing the weather but catching up with the washing. Love mum again

[@kenchristie9214]

Aaahhh! They don't make songs like that anymore.

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Brilliant... Lmso. Lol.🥰 Xxxxxxxx

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Joking me.... Omg Xxxxxxxx

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Uh oh....

[@glenroysterling6496]

Chinmayi belongs back in London mayling! I gather your watching me eyy?

[@bronwynsearle2117]

Hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha 😆😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@raymcdermott8246]

I'm a distant cousin of spike I found out recently explains a lot lol

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Piano.......

[@anglewoden]

The Ying Tong Song should be credited to the Goons as well no?

[@th5137]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@self-preservationsociety7057]

Brilliant ! ….. I’m sure this offended someone , somewhere .

[@jason-km1wi]

I dunno why it would but i agree 😂

[@stephenphillip5656]

Hopefully.....🤭🤣

[@JohnJ469]

I was so offended that my ears turned green and my kneecaps exploded!!!

[@jason-km1wi]

@@JohnJ469 see a doctor

[@JohnJ469]

@@jason-km1wi I did. He said I had the dreaded "Lurgi" and told me to take two trombones and call me in the morning. EEEEEE-YAKABOO.

[@chaz725]

A fact .. spike wrote biographies of his time in WW2 as a service man .he was wounded in battle . Mad as a box of frogs but …. Incredible man ? . Google Adolf Hitler my part in his Downfall… bloody good read . RIP spike.

[@martyforrer195]

Not the Goons, and not quite as good, but very clever none the less.

[@Biggerbadwolf]

I can never remember the lyrics..........

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Lmso. Xxxxx

[@johnscrimgeour4888]

Middle England humour taught at Private Schools whilst being defiled by the Head Boy with the Year Master looking on. Worked for Prince Charles and Co,

[@seasmacfarlane6418]

No, no, no. Never try to imitate perfection. Only the Goons could sing this song. Sorry chaps, you tried, and thank you, but there will never be another Spike, Harry, Peter or Michael.

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

How to make money on someone elses genius! They're not even adding anything original! So sad, so creatively bankrupt.

[@RJSRdg]

Bringing it to a new audience and allowing those of us who are far too young to have seen the real thing live the opportunity to see the next best thing.

[@JohnJ469]

What could you add? If you listen carefully you'll hear most of the Goon show cast. So doing a tribute show like this isn't just doing Spike, it's also doing Spike doing Eccles.

[@JohnJ469]

@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars How about for the simple reason the original cast can't do live performances any more?

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

Exactly my point. That's what the recordings are for!

[@davidwaddington9414]

what a load of rubbish.

[@simonmoore2380]

A moving tribute. And I wish I’d moved earlier……