Back in 1980 I lived on a horse ranch in California. My neighbor, who came from Scotland, introduced me to 8% homebrew and Billy Connolly. He had 4 vinyls of Billy and we'd drink homebrew, play records and laugh all night...
I was born in Scotland but was raised in Australia, but I'm still Scottish at heart and sung this at my high school talent quest and won 1st for solo vocal performances and 1st for comedy. It's a good thing I didn't loose my Scottish accent.
OMG THIS MADE ME CRY CUZ IT WAS MY GRANDAD ALANS FAV SONG AND HE DIED IN JAN 2016 AND I WENT TO HIS FUNERAL AND THIS WAS THE FIRST SONG ON XXX MISS YOU GRANDAD XXXXXXXXXX
lol of friend of mine from Scotland was singing this when he was over, visiting the family. It got stuck in my head for weeks and I still occasionally pop off and sing this.
I listened to this song when i was a kid. What a blast from the past, COOL, Tell Laura i love her and My granny was a cripple in Nashville were my favorites.
When I was little we lived by a farm and I used to wear my dad's wellies (they came up to my bum) and sing this song, it's one of my earliest memories :P
the 10 who disliked this song must never have lived in a snowy climate where high-top boots were the order of the day. Sure, they're not called wellingtons here, but boots are boots anywhere where they measure snow in feet-or meters. I heard this on Dr. Demento when I lived in Florida, but when I found myself in Minnesota I sang this quite a bit when I was out walking my dog in my boots.
Did this song for mah last show in primary. Along with shes a belter n Why does it always rain on me. God.. i already miss it. It was great with all my mates.
This song was first put up when a was about 4😂 I remember my mum singin it to me when I was wearing wellies😂 10 years later and it's still one of my favourites (14 now)😂😂
well.. the wheel came off of that wheelchair,friends... and on three wheels it trundled awaaaaaay! and it ran right over the edge of a cliff... in an old seaside town far away, SING O DEE O LE HEE E HEE... etc. WOO WOOOOOO! i might be wrong but i think thats billy bites yer bum.
In 1974, Scottish comedian Billy Connolly adopted a comical ode to the boot called "The Welly Boot Song" as his theme tune and it became one of his best-known songs. In 1976, satirist John Clarke's alter ego Fred Dagg reworked Connolly's song as "If it weren't for your Gumboots", and created a hit. wiki!
Kiwi Comment: i have to admit that Billy Connelly did this before Fred Dagg (AKA John Clarke) did his version, "If it weren't for your gumboots" by Fred Dagg and Diamond Lil. But the origins of this song is from the 1800's in the cotton mills of Britain and was called "If it Weren't for the Weavers"!
I saw boots that just like the ones in the pictures (I assume those are "wellies"?) in Walmart the other day, they usually have them in or near the garden section especially during the summer they label them as "gardening" boots or "rain" boots.
my ant just came from canida , and she finds it so strange that we were wellies in the snow she canny walk doon the toon without pishin her self lmao then a played this song and she did just about :)
anybody got him doing "the ultimate country and western song" by shay healy it begins'my granny was a cripple in nashville friends -this story i tell you is true one day she went out in her wheelchair never knowing it had a loose screw .......
I am the greatest fan of Billy but I have to say that I prefer the John Clarke version of this ( aka Fred Dagg of course). Sorry Billy - love everything else you do and "The Man Who Sued God" is grossly underrated. Very clever.
Why can't people think that his mother too might have sung the song to him as "wellies" as well. He never said he created the song anyhow, I thinks his is great.
Gumboots they are wonderful, gumboots they are swell. They keep out the water, and keep in the smell. And when you're sitting around at home you can always tell when one of the Trevs has taken off their gumboots.if it weren't for your gumboots where would you be? You'd be in the hospital or infirmary. You'd have a case of the flu or even pluracy, if you didn't have your feet in your gumboots :) new zealand version :)
The wellie's song, My story I was,sent to sail from Singapore to sail to Capetown via the Cape of Goodhope, with Furlined safety boots. I took ma wellie's, instead. Oh how the the Flip Flop's laughed!! (Ship's crew). I was glad 'o' ma wellie's when it was raining upside down! (For 2 mths). That's when I was laughing at them!! Oh vengence a dish best served cold from God!! To all the non believer's lol!!!! He get's to have the last laugh, especially about yer wellie's!!!
Another single recorded with Diamond Lil was an even bigger hit in 1976. "Gumboots"/"Save The Last Dance For Me" climbed to number 6 on the charts. "Gumboots" was a modified version of Billy Connolly's "If It Wasna For Your Wellies", itself an adaptation of the old song "The Work Of The Weavers" Billy first of the two it would seem.
