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Capo: 4 Tuning: E A D G B E
A 1975 release by the 'Rochdale Cowboy'. Capo on 4 for correct key = E. Intro = C Verse 1
CNow there’s a place in Wigan a place you all should Gknow A busy little factory where things are all the Cgo They don’t make Jakes or Eccles Cakes or things to stick on Fwalls But Gnight and day they work away at Uncle Joe’s Mint CBalls
Chorus
C'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all agGlow Give ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar Cgo Away with coughs and sniffles take a few in Fhand GSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the Cland
Verse 2
CMe dad has always wanted curly hair on his bald Ghead Suck an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball that’s what the doctor Csaid So he got an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball and sucked it all night Flong When Ghe got up next morning he’d hairs all over his Ctongue
Chorus
C'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all agGlow Give ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar Cgo Away with coughs and sniffles take a few in Fhand GSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the Cland
Verse 3
CMe Uncle Albert passed away from ale upon the Gbrain The doctors said that he were dead and would never walk aCgain So they gave the corpse an Uncle Joe’s and then stood back agFhast 'Cos the Gcorpse jumped up and ran to the pub and spent the insurance Cbrass
Chorus
C'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all agGlow Give ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar Cgo Away with coughs and sniffles take a few in Fhand GSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the Cland
Verse 4
CMe granny said me granddad ‘e were gettin’ old and Gslow And fire in grandad’s boiler ‘ad gone out long aCgo So ‘e got an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball sucked it all the Fnight But his Ghot breath singed her vest and set the bed aClight
Chorus
C'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all agGlow Give ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar Cgo Away with coughs and sniffles take a few in Fhand GSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the Cland
Verse 5
CWe ‘ad a pigeon it were bald and couldn’t fly too Gfast Never won places in the races always come in Clast Though it were bald no feathers at all it won a race one Fday We Ggive it an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball and it ran al’t bloody Cway
Chorus
C'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all agGlow Give ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar Cgo Away with coughs and sniffles take a few in Fhand GSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the Cland
Verse 6
CI had a girl her name was May in passion she were Glackin’ Fed ‘er with whisky to make ‘er frisky still she wouldn’t get Ccrackin’ So I gave her an Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball to get ‘er all agFlow GNow she combs the streets of Wigan looking for Uncle CJoe
Chorus
C'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all agGlow Give ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar Cgo Away with coughs and sniffles take a few in Fhand GSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the Cland
Verse 7
CWe gave some to the coalman’s ‘orse as it stood in the Groad It gave a cough then beggared off with it’s cart an’ Cload It ran onto the racecourse going like a Fbird GCovered the track with nutty slack and came first second and Cthird
Chorus
C'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all agGlow Give ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar Cgo Away with coughs and sniffles take a few in Fhand GSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best in all the Cland
Verse 8
CThe RSPCA have bought six tons of Uncle GJoe’s To give to all the animules to keep ‘em all aCglow Our budgie now is six foot tall the cat is eight foot Fthree And Gall the poor brass monkeys are as happy as can Cbe
Chorus
C'Cos Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all agGlow Give ‘em to your grannie and watch the buggar Cgo Away with coughs and sniffles take a few in Fhand GSuck ‘em and see you’ll agree they're the best....in....all....the.....Cl..a..n..d C