fv_poster | Gift for purplefringe by cosmic-llin (Michael Palin's travel shows)

Title of vid: Flash, Bang, Wallop
Recipient: purplefringe
Vidder: cosmic-llin
Fandom: Michael Palin's travel shows
Music: Flash, Bang, Wallop by Tommy Steele
Summary: "I always wanted to be an explorer, but... it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person." - Michael Palin.
A Pole to Pole treat.
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 02:01
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Lyrics
All lined up in a wedding group

Here we are for a photograph

We're all dressed up in a morning suit

All trying not to laugh

Since the early caveman in his fur

Took a trip to Gretna Green

There's always been a photographer

To record the happy scene.....

Hold it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture

Click, what a picture, what a photograph

Poor old soul, blimey, what a joke

Hat blown off in a cloud of smoke

Clap hands, stamp your feet

Banging on the big bass drum

What a picture, what a picture

Um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum

Stick it in your family album

The same thing happened long ago

When man was in his prime

And what went on we only know

From the snaps he took at the time

When Adam and Eve in their birthday suit

Decided to get wed

As Adam was about to taste the fruit

The man with the camera said.....

Hold it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture

Click, what a picture, what a photograph

Poor old Eve, there with nothing on

Face all red and her fig leaf gone

Clap hands, stamp your feet

Banging on the big bass drum,

What a picture, what a picture

Um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum

Stick it in your family album

You've read it in a folio

Or seen it in a Shakespeare play

How Juliet fell for Romeo

In the merry month of May

And as he climbed the orchard wall

To reach his lady fair

As he tumbled, she began to bawl

As he travelled through the air.....

Hold it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture

Click, what a picture, what a photograph

Poor young chap, what a night he spent

Tights all torn and his rapier bent

Clap hands, stamp your feet

Banging on the big bass drum,

What a picture, what a picture

Um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum

Stick it in your family album

Stick it in your family

Stick it in your family

Stick it in your family album

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

SECRET TREAT FESTIVIDDER I LOVE YOUUUUUUU. I LOOOOVE YOUUUUUU. I ACTUALLY DON"T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH VOWELS FOR HOW MUCH I LOOOOOOVE YOUUUUUU. OMGGGG.

MICHAEL PALIN <333 ARGH.

*breathes*

Ok. So. This is beautiful and adorable and perfect, and I LOVE the song choice and I love the gentle humour of it all and basically I love everything and I love Michael Palin and I love this vid and I love you.

Possibly more coherent comment to follow later, but at the moment I'm just too full of joy. \o/

Oh look it's me again. I've watched this umpteen times now and I still can't be coherent about it. But I had to come back and say I AM SO HAPPY TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THIS EXISTS <333333

N'awww. Michael Palin <3

Aw! I love the Michael Palin travel documentaries, and this was a super song choice, hee!

Oh what a fun vid! I loved those documentaries, and this is the perfect song to go with them.

This put such a huge smile on my face! Yay!

Oh my gosh, this is so great! I love the song choice, and your timing is just spot on! I have a huge grin on my face now. :D

This is GREAT and SO FUN and... the choice of music is so interesting (as well as fun) because it captures that idea of the old world Victorian gentleman or gentle lady going to exotic places - the English innocent abroad. It's very, VERY wry.

What fun! I'd forgotten he was such a delightful dork, and you captured that quality perfectly. :)

How perfectly wonderful from beginning to end. What a great song for this Vid!

MICHAEL PALIIIIIIIN!!! This is awesome and fun and hilarious and perfect! :D :D :D

Ahh, terrifically dorky, I love this so! Pole to Pole especially is one of my favorites, and this was such a great celebration and sendup at the same time. Fantastic!