The Ying Tong Song

[This transcription by Paul Martin, the silly twisted boy -- RS]


[orchestral intro]

Tenor:  There's a song that I recall
        My mother sang to me.
Sprigs [off]: Oh! [a sigh]
Tenor:  She sang it as she tucked me in
        When I was ninety-three.

[harp plays a rising chord...]

Sprigs: I diddle, I. Who was that bum?

Bluebottle + Sprigs:
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po,
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong    [bluebottle drops behind]
        Ying tong iddle I po
Sprigs: Keep lad up. Keep.
Bluebottle: Keep up lad up.


Both:   Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
Sprigs: lad
Both:   Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po [lad]
        Iddle I po [lad]

        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong [Sprigs: iddle] [Bluebottle: ying tong]
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Ying tong ying tong iddle

Bluebottle [spoken]:
        Ying tong iddle I po!
[short raspberry, Secombe]


Both:   Oh!
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Iddle I po!

[trumpet bit]

Bluebottle:
        Ying. Ying tongy tongy.
        Ying tong iddle I po.
        Ying tong iddle I po.
[Secombe under this: What a lovely lovely boy!]
        Ying ying ying tongy tongy.
[Milligan: Get out the rifle, sir.]
        Yeeeng.
        Ying tong ying tong d'gy-n'o.
        Ying tong d'ga.
[Secombe: Get away.]
        D'g d'g d'ga.      
        Ying tong iddle I po.

Seagoon:Hear that crazy rhythm
        Driving me insane.
        Strike your partner on the bonce.
[thump]
Eccles: Ooh. I felt no pain.
[Bluebottle screeches]

Seagoon, Bluebottle and Eccles:
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying...

[harp chord rises]

Soprano: Take me back to Vienna....

[Raspberry section, probably Milligan]

Bloodnok: Ohhhhh!
Eccles: Oh!           

[harp chord]

Soprano: Take me back to Vienna, where the....

[crash!]

Seagoon, Sprigs and Bluebottle [far off]:
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po

[mad dash to foreground]

        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
[Sprigs: keep going lad]
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po    

Seagoon: LOOK OUT!
[cry from Bluebottle]

[mad dash to distance]

[hastily]
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po

[dash to foreground]

        Ying tong...

[whine of bomb dropping, explosion]

Double speed, but same tempo, Goons:

        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Iddle I po.

        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Iddle I po.

One:    Ying! Tongy tongy tongy.
        Yiddy diddy diddy da daaa. Ying diddy.
        Ying tong diddle. Yiddada boo.
        [rhythmic thigh slapping, raspberry]

All     Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Ying tong ying tong
        Ying tong iddle I po
        Iddle I po.

Bluebottle?: Whoooooh!