"One of my favourites was a gorgeous Lakeland Terrier called Benji who loved chasing the ice cream vans and fighting, so by the time he died he had one ear and one
goolie."
By TIMOTHYNA DUNCAN News Reporter timothyna.duncan@trinitymirror.com A BIRMINGHAM scout group is ging gang
goolie goolie going....
West Indies didn't help their cause with two runs out that left the game on an even keel, until Shamar Springer's run-a-ball 37 brought the target to inside 40, which was wiped out by Jyd
Goolie and Keemo Paul as West Indies cruised home with plenty to spare.
Small and frail-looking but lionhearted on the pitch, he quickly became a crowd favourite, enjoying his own bespoke terrace anthem"Terry Hibbitt on the wing", adopted from the old English scouting song "Ging Gang
Goolie".
Small and frail-looking but lion-hearted on the pitch, he quickly became a crowd favourite, enjoying his own bespoke terrace anthem "Terry Hibbitt on the wing", adopted from the old English scouting song "Ging Gang
Goolie".
Teaching a silly song (Ging Gang
Goolie Goolie) to a class of reluctant and critical 7 year olds required a display of confidence and showmanship I had never had to access before, (let alone the logistics required to move trampling elephants back and forward and retain control of the villages as well) and ...
Or being able to reformat a laptop while your troop sits around the campfire fiddling with their woggles, eating burnt sausages and singing "Ging gang
goolie,
goolie,
goolie,
goolie wotcha.
By the time he died he had just one ear and one
goolie. Add to that rogues' gallery of the unwanted and one-balled, my first ever dog of my own, Snoop, our Basset who died last June.
I'd swear they would put it on in the night to keep the chill and damp out, humming 'Ging Gang
Goolie' and slowly turning rotisserie cocktail sticks loaded with bluebottles.
Think of scouting and it conjures up images of trips into the wilderness to build a bivouac and singing "Ging Gang
Goolie" round the fire.
Scaffold's hits were Thank U Very Much (number 4, 1967), Do You Remember (34, 1968), Lily the Pink (1, 1968), Gin Gan
Goolie (38, 1969), Liverpool Lou (7, 1974
