Biography:
William "Billy" Connolly, CBE, (born 24 November 1942) is a comedian, musician, presenter, and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname "The Big Yin" (The Big One), a reference to his height. Any male visitor to Glasgow above average height may be addressed as "Big Yin" by the locals; Billy, however, is The Big Yin. An early irreverent sketch, The Crucifixion, is an example of his often controversial humour
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Yes my granny is a cripple in Nashville
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Yes my granny is a cripple in Nashville
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This story I tell you is true
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One day, she went out on her wheelchair
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Never knowin' it had a loose screw
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Well a wheel came off of that wheelchair,
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friends
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And on three wheels it trundled away
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And it trundled right over the edge of a cliff
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Now the boy who was pushin the wheelchair
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Was a little blind orphan called Joe
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"And where did that damn wheelchair go?"
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for that wheelchair, friends
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A-dee-oo-leh-hee yeh-hee oh-leh-hee-oooh
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Well somebody sent for a doctor
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And an ambulance too, it was called
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And the people who lived in the
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neighbourhood
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Stood around and they cried, how they bawled
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Well the doctor and the ambulance came rushing, friends
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They were rushing from two different ways
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And they crashed with a biff,
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and shot over the cliff
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In that old sea-side town, far away
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A-dee-oo-leh-hee yeh-hee oh-leh-hee-oooh
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Well they sent for brave father Maloney
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To pray for the poor soles they pose
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And he said "Well now that we're gathered
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But, too many people had gathered
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And the edge of the cliff gave way
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And they dropped with a yell
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