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[Am] Billy Connolly is one of the world's funniest men.
He's also a successful film actor and one of [A] the few British comedians to make it on both sides of the Atlantic.
[D] But his comedy [A] was born out of a troubled childhood.
His mother abandoned him when he was four, leaving him to be brought up [Dm] by his father and two [N] aunts.
[A]
It was a cruel and confusing life, and only when he left school to become [Am] a welder in a shipyard did he really begin to [C] feel valued.
[Am]
As a clinical psychologist, his biographer and his wife, I already know a thing or two about Billy, including the fact that psychologically, he's always capable [A] of surprising me.
[D] [G]
Hello.
How [N] very odd.
Didn't I see you last night in my room?
This is too weird.
Well, I must say you're having a particularly good hair day.
I am indeed.
It seems to me that her suit-ness is quite important to you.
Yeah.
Help me to understand why.
Because it makes me so attractive.
I kind of like to look like my image of myself.
You know, I don't want to look my best for you.
Like, what you might
Like, people say, when going for an interview, it's best to look like this.
When going to do something, it's best to look like this.
All of it is bullshit, I think.
To me, a three-piece suit, I look on them as liar's clothes.
That's what you wear when you're going to court.
You know, show up in that shit and you can lie till the cows come home.
But if you just look like yourself, people find it as a kind of threat a lot of the time, I've found over the years.
You know, and they'll make jokes about you.
What are you wearing?
Are you wearing that for a bet or something?
But I've always liked very colourful clothes and the whole hippie, long-haired era had a profound effect on me.
And I've never really lost it.
What effect did it have?
It freed me up.
It let me loose.
It let me out of jail.
You know, whereas they say, people say, the great escape from the working class to get out of the factory life and all that, is music and show business or this and that.
They always forget that if you want to escape upper class, middle class, working class, any class, the secret tunnel, the escape route is in the library.
The library's free.
It was any escape from where I was, where I was was quite good, it was quite an exciting place to live, where I was being brought up.
You know, in Partick in Glasgow, I remember street fights where we used to make hatchets from a tin can and a stick.
You put the stick in the tin can and you beat it with a brick until it's flat, you know, so you get the flat tin can.
It's very sharp in the end and you can throw it, like that.
And you chased after the other guys with ease and you can whack them with it or throw it at them, you know.
You actually did that?
Oh yeah, I loved every second of it.
Yeah.
I'll tell you another wonderful one.
But wait a minute, what kind of injuries did people sustain?
Cuts and scrapes and bruises, you know, and bleeding noses.
You know, somebody else could tell that story and I'd be sitting here gasping.
Well, part of it's horrifying, but it's glorious to me.
There was a guy called Geordie Sinclair, he lived round the corner from me and he had a gang, you know.
And I had my little gang.
It's brilliant.
You know, it took us to, you know, to do Shrinkwrap together for me to discover that you were actually once a gang leader.
I had no idea.
It wasn't really a gang, it was a bunch of guys.
You know, there's a spy here, we used to say.
He's a spy for the Sinclairs.
What are you talking about?
We don't have secrets.
You know, and all that.
And children would sing in the streets and girls would play that game with balls against the wall under their legs.
You know, you hit the ball under your leg and bounce up against the wall, it's a triangular thing.
And skipping ropes, and they would sing.
There was a lot of singing when I was a child.
And what exactly was happening in the rest of your life at that time?
I joined an organization called the Children of Mary.
I was quite holy when I was about 12, you know.
And we used to go round people's houses saying the rosary, you know.
It's all founded on Our Lady of Lourdes, who appeared to these children.
And one of the secrets that she told them, which was released, was that the world could be saved by the saying of the rosary.
So we used to go round houses with a shoebox with Our Lady of Lourdes in it, you know, the wee statue.
And the rosaries, there was usually three or four of us.
You're up to people's doors, you know.
We were as welcome as hemorrhoids, you know.
Hello, we'd like to say the rosary.
Oh, I've forgotten, you'd better come in.
So the guy's just in from his work, you know, they're all kneeling on the floor.
The statue.
And you could hear people hurrying to prayers, because there's a good television program coming.
The Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
And you say that, and the reply is, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
As Coronation Street, the soap was getting closer, you know, people were going,
the second half of the play was going,
Amen.
And I said, Hail Mary, Mother of God, grace of the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Amen.
Hail Mary.
And then after you've done about seven Hail Marys, you hear,
You'd hear it from the house next door, Coronation Street starting.
You could see the woman going, you know, get them out of here.
And I was just sitting there, hurrying all the prayers up.
It was a nice time of my life.
You get a lot of people today, saying, kids are not the same.
We were always out playing, they're all doing the computer.
You've stolen all the places.
You've lined the street with cars.
Because I was born in the middle of the Second World War, but I grew up just after it.
And so there was bomb sites you could go and play in.
We thought they were haunted houses, you know.
Just big houses full of rooms and things that people had left lying around.
You could play all over, there was spare ground all over the place.
I don't envy modern children, you know, that side of it, that physical.
Because when our kids were growing up, remember, I'm sure I was really boring and saying,
Remember our kids, you would have play dates.
Their friends would phone up and ask if they could come over and they'd play in it.
Or they could go to where they lived and they would play.
Well, neither of us would have let them play in a bomb site.
I would.
You wouldn't.
[Am] Billy Connolly is one of the world's funniest men.
He's also a successful film actor and one of [A] the few British comedians to make it on both sides of the Atlantic.
[D] But his comedy [A] was born out of a troubled childhood.
His mother abandoned him when he was four, leaving him to be brought up [Dm] by his father and two [N] aunts.
[A]
It was a cruel and confusing life, and only when he left school to become [Am] a welder in a shipyard did he really begin to [C] feel valued.
[Am]
As a clinical psychologist, his biographer and his wife, I already know a thing or two about Billy, including the fact that psychologically, he's always capable [A] of surprising me.
[D] [G]
Hello.
How [N] very odd.
Didn't I see you last night in my room?
This is too weird.
Well, I must say you're having a particularly good hair day.
I am indeed.
It seems to me that her suit-ness is quite important to you.
Yeah.
Help me to understand why.
Because it makes me so attractive.
I kind of like to look like my image of myself.
You know, I don't want to look my best for you.
Like, what you might
Like, people say, when going for an interview, it's best to look like this.
When going to do something, it's best to look like this.
All of it is bullshit, I think.
To me, a three-piece suit, I look on them as liar's clothes.
That's what you wear when you're going to court.
You know, show up in that shit and you can lie till the cows come home.
But if you just look like yourself, people find it as a kind of threat a lot of the time, I've found over the years.
You know, and they'll make jokes about you.
What are you wearing?
Are you wearing that for a bet or something?
But I've always liked very colourful clothes and the whole hippie, long-haired era had a profound effect on me.
And I've never really lost it.
What effect did it have?
It freed me up.
It let me loose.
It let me out of jail.
You know, whereas they say, people say, the great escape from the working class to get out of the factory life and all that, is music and show business or this and that.
They always forget that if you want to escape upper class, middle class, working class, any class, the secret tunnel, the escape route is in the library.
The library's free.
It was any escape from where I was, where I was was quite good, it was quite an exciting place to live, where I was being brought up.
You know, in Partick in Glasgow, I remember street fights where we used to make hatchets from a tin can and a stick.
You put the stick in the tin can and you beat it with a brick until it's flat, you know, so you get the flat tin can.
It's very sharp in the end and you can throw it, like that.
And you chased after the other guys with ease and you can whack them with it or throw it at them, you know.
You actually did that?
Oh yeah, I loved every second of it.
Yeah.
I'll tell you another wonderful one.
But wait a minute, what kind of injuries did people sustain?
Cuts and scrapes and bruises, you know, and bleeding noses.
You know, somebody else could tell that story and I'd be sitting here gasping.
Well, part of it's horrifying, but it's glorious to me.
There was a guy called Geordie Sinclair, he lived round the corner from me and he had a gang, you know.
And I had my little gang.
It's brilliant.
You know, it took us to, you know, to do Shrinkwrap together for me to discover that you were actually once a gang leader.
I had no idea.
It wasn't really a gang, it was a bunch of guys.
You know, there's a spy here, we used to say.
He's a spy for the Sinclairs.
What are you talking about?
We don't have secrets.
You know, and all that.
And children would sing in the streets and girls would play that game with balls against the wall under their legs.
You know, you hit the ball under your leg and bounce up against the wall, it's a triangular thing.
And skipping ropes, and they would sing.
There was a lot of singing when I was a child.
And what exactly was happening in the rest of your life at that time?
I joined an organization called the Children of Mary.
I was quite holy when I was about 12, you know.
And we used to go round people's houses saying the rosary, you know.
It's all founded on Our Lady of Lourdes, who appeared to these children.
And one of the secrets that she told them, which was released, was that the world could be saved by the saying of the rosary.
So we used to go round houses with a shoebox with Our Lady of Lourdes in it, you know, the wee statue.
And the rosaries, there was usually three or four of us.
You're up to people's doors, you know.
We were as welcome as hemorrhoids, you know.
Hello, we'd like to say the rosary.
Oh, I've forgotten, you'd better come in.
So the guy's just in from his work, you know, they're all kneeling on the floor.
The statue.
And you could hear people hurrying to prayers, because there's a good television program coming.
The Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
And you say that, and the reply is, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
As Coronation Street, the soap was getting closer, you know, people were going,
the second half of the play was going,
Amen.
And I said, Hail Mary, Mother of God, grace of the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Amen.
Hail Mary.
And then after you've done about seven Hail Marys, you hear,
You'd hear it from the house next door, Coronation Street starting.
You could see the woman going, you know, get them out of here.
And I was just sitting there, hurrying all the prayers up.
It was a nice time of my life.
You get a lot of people today, saying, kids are not the same.
We were always out playing, they're all doing the computer.
You've stolen all the places.
You've lined the street with cars.
Because I was born in the middle of the Second World War, but I grew up just after it.
And so there was bomb sites you could go and play in.
We thought they were haunted houses, you know.
Just big houses full of rooms and things that people had left lying around.
You could play all over, there was spare ground all over the place.
I don't envy modern children, you know, that side of it, that physical.
Because when our kids were growing up, remember, I'm sure I was really boring and saying,
Remember our kids, you would have play dates.
Their friends would phone up and ask if they could come over and they'd play in it.
Or they could go to where they lived and they would play.
Well, neither of us would have let them play in a bomb site.
I would.
You wouldn't.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ Billy Connolly is one of the world's funniest men.
_ He's also a successful film actor and one of [A] the few British comedians to make it on both sides of the Atlantic.
_ [D] But his comedy [A] was born out of a troubled childhood.
_ _ _ _ _ His mother abandoned him when he was four, leaving him to be brought up [Dm] by his father and two [N] aunts.
[A] _ _ _ _
It was a cruel and confusing life, and only when he left school to become [Am] a welder in a shipyard did he really begin to [C] feel valued.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _
As a clinical psychologist, his biographer and his wife, I already know a thing or two about Billy, including the fact that psychologically, he's always capable [A] of surprising me.
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Hello.
How [N] very odd.
_ _ Didn't I see you last night in my room?
_ This is too weird. _ _
_ _ Well, I must say you're having a particularly good hair day.
I am indeed.
It seems to me that her suit-ness is quite important to you.
Yeah. _
Help me to understand why.
Because it makes me so attractive. _
_ _ _ _ I kind of like to look like my image of myself. _
You know, I don't want to look my best for you.
Like, what you might_
Like, people say, when going for an interview, it's best to look like this.
When going to do something, it's best to look like this.
All of it is bullshit, I think.
_ _ To me, a three-piece suit, I look on them as liar's clothes.
That's what you wear when you're going to court.
You know, show up in that shit and you can lie till the cows come home.
But if you just look like yourself, people find it as a kind of threat a lot of the time, I've found over the years.
You know, and they'll make jokes about you.
_ What are you wearing?
Are you wearing that for a bet or something?
But I've always _ liked very colourful clothes and the whole hippie, long-haired era had a profound effect on me.
And I've never really lost it.
What effect did it have?
_ It freed me up.
It let me loose.
It let me out of jail.
You know, whereas they say, people say, the great escape from the working class to get out of the factory life and all that, is music and show business or this and that.
They always forget that if you want to escape upper class, middle class, working class, any class, the secret tunnel, the escape route is in the library.
_ The library's free.
It was any escape from where I was, where I was was quite good, it was quite an exciting place to live, where I was being brought up.
You know, in Partick in Glasgow, _ I remember street fights where we used to make hatchets _ from a tin can and a stick.
_ You put the stick in the tin can and you beat it with a brick until it's flat, you know, so you get the flat tin can.
It's very sharp in the end and you can throw it, _ like that.
And you chased after the other guys with ease and you can whack them with it or throw it at them, you know.
You actually did that?
Oh yeah, I loved every second of it.
Yeah.
I'll tell you another wonderful one.
But wait a minute, what kind of injuries did people sustain?
Cuts and scrapes and bruises, _ you know, and bleeding noses.
You know, somebody else could tell that story and I'd be sitting here gasping.
Well, part of it's horrifying, but _ it's glorious to me.
There was a guy called Geordie Sinclair, he lived round the corner from me and he had a gang, you know.
And I had my little gang.
It's brilliant.
You know, it took us to, you know, to do Shrinkwrap together for me to discover that you were actually once a gang leader.
I had no idea.
It wasn't really a gang, it was a bunch of guys.
You know, there's a spy here, we used to say.
He's a spy for the Sinclairs.
What are you talking about?
We don't have secrets.
You know, and all that.
And children would sing in the streets and girls would play that game with balls against the wall under their legs.
You know, you hit the ball under your leg and bounce up against the wall, it's a triangular thing.
And skipping ropes, and they would sing.
There was a lot of singing when I was a child.
And what exactly was happening in the rest of your life at that time?
I joined an organization called the Children of Mary.
I was quite holy when I was about 12, you know.
_ And we used to go round people's houses saying the rosary, you know.
It's all founded on Our Lady of Lourdes, who appeared to these children.
_ And _ _ one of the secrets that she told them, _ which was released, was that the world could be saved by the saying of the rosary.
_ So we used to go round houses _ _ _ _ _ _ with _ _ _ a shoebox with Our Lady of Lourdes in it, you know, the wee statue.
And the rosaries, there was usually three or four of us.
You're up to people's doors, you know.
_ _ We were as welcome as hemorrhoids, you know. _ _
Hello, we'd like to say the rosary.
Oh, I've forgotten, you'd better come in.
So the guy's just in from his work, you know, they're all kneeling on the floor.
_ _ _ The statue.
_ _ And you could _ _ hear people hurrying to prayers, because there's a good television program coming.
The Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
_ And you say that, and the reply is, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, Amen. _ _ _
As Coronation Street, the soap was getting closer, you know, people were going,
_ _ _ _ the _ _ second half of the play was going, _ _ _
Amen.
And I said, Hail Mary, Mother of God, grace of the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
_ Amen.
_ Hail Mary.
_ And then after you've done about seven Hail Marys, you hear, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You'd hear it from the house next door, _ Coronation Street starting.
You could see the woman going, you know, get them out of here.
And I was just sitting there, hurrying all the prayers up.
It was a nice time of my life.
You get a lot of people today, saying, kids are not the same.
We were always out playing, they're all doing the computer.
You've stolen all the _ places.
_ You've lined the street with cars.
_ Because I was born in the middle of the Second World War, but I grew up just after it.
And so there was bomb sites you could go and play in.
We thought they were haunted houses, you know.
Just big houses full of rooms and things that people had left lying around.
You could play all over, there was spare ground all over the place. _
I don't envy modern children, you know, that side of it, that physical.
_ Because when our kids were growing up, remember, I'm sure I was really boring and saying,
_ _ Remember our kids, you would have play dates.
_ _ Their friends would phone up and ask if they could come over and they'd play in it.
Or they could go to where they lived and they would play.
Well, neither of us would have let them play in a bomb site. _
I would.
_ You wouldn't. _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ Billy Connolly is one of the world's funniest men.
_ He's also a successful film actor and one of [A] the few British comedians to make it on both sides of the Atlantic.
_ [D] But his comedy [A] was born out of a troubled childhood.
_ _ _ _ _ His mother abandoned him when he was four, leaving him to be brought up [Dm] by his father and two [N] aunts.
[A] _ _ _ _
It was a cruel and confusing life, and only when he left school to become [Am] a welder in a shipyard did he really begin to [C] feel valued.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _
As a clinical psychologist, his biographer and his wife, I already know a thing or two about Billy, including the fact that psychologically, he's always capable [A] of surprising me.
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Hello.
How [N] very odd.
_ _ Didn't I see you last night in my room?
_ This is too weird. _ _
_ _ Well, I must say you're having a particularly good hair day.
I am indeed.
It seems to me that her suit-ness is quite important to you.
Yeah. _
Help me to understand why.
Because it makes me so attractive. _
_ _ _ _ I kind of like to look like my image of myself. _
You know, I don't want to look my best for you.
Like, what you might_
Like, people say, when going for an interview, it's best to look like this.
When going to do something, it's best to look like this.
All of it is bullshit, I think.
_ _ To me, a three-piece suit, I look on them as liar's clothes.
That's what you wear when you're going to court.
You know, show up in that shit and you can lie till the cows come home.
But if you just look like yourself, people find it as a kind of threat a lot of the time, I've found over the years.
You know, and they'll make jokes about you.
_ What are you wearing?
Are you wearing that for a bet or something?
But I've always _ liked very colourful clothes and the whole hippie, long-haired era had a profound effect on me.
And I've never really lost it.
What effect did it have?
_ It freed me up.
It let me loose.
It let me out of jail.
You know, whereas they say, people say, the great escape from the working class to get out of the factory life and all that, is music and show business or this and that.
They always forget that if you want to escape upper class, middle class, working class, any class, the secret tunnel, the escape route is in the library.
_ The library's free.
It was any escape from where I was, where I was was quite good, it was quite an exciting place to live, where I was being brought up.
You know, in Partick in Glasgow, _ I remember street fights where we used to make hatchets _ from a tin can and a stick.
_ You put the stick in the tin can and you beat it with a brick until it's flat, you know, so you get the flat tin can.
It's very sharp in the end and you can throw it, _ like that.
And you chased after the other guys with ease and you can whack them with it or throw it at them, you know.
You actually did that?
Oh yeah, I loved every second of it.
Yeah.
I'll tell you another wonderful one.
But wait a minute, what kind of injuries did people sustain?
Cuts and scrapes and bruises, _ you know, and bleeding noses.
You know, somebody else could tell that story and I'd be sitting here gasping.
Well, part of it's horrifying, but _ it's glorious to me.
There was a guy called Geordie Sinclair, he lived round the corner from me and he had a gang, you know.
And I had my little gang.
It's brilliant.
You know, it took us to, you know, to do Shrinkwrap together for me to discover that you were actually once a gang leader.
I had no idea.
It wasn't really a gang, it was a bunch of guys.
You know, there's a spy here, we used to say.
He's a spy for the Sinclairs.
What are you talking about?
We don't have secrets.
You know, and all that.
And children would sing in the streets and girls would play that game with balls against the wall under their legs.
You know, you hit the ball under your leg and bounce up against the wall, it's a triangular thing.
And skipping ropes, and they would sing.
There was a lot of singing when I was a child.
And what exactly was happening in the rest of your life at that time?
I joined an organization called the Children of Mary.
I was quite holy when I was about 12, you know.
_ And we used to go round people's houses saying the rosary, you know.
It's all founded on Our Lady of Lourdes, who appeared to these children.
_ And _ _ one of the secrets that she told them, _ which was released, was that the world could be saved by the saying of the rosary.
_ So we used to go round houses _ _ _ _ _ _ with _ _ _ a shoebox with Our Lady of Lourdes in it, you know, the wee statue.
And the rosaries, there was usually three or four of us.
You're up to people's doors, you know.
_ _ We were as welcome as hemorrhoids, you know. _ _
Hello, we'd like to say the rosary.
Oh, I've forgotten, you'd better come in.
So the guy's just in from his work, you know, they're all kneeling on the floor.
_ _ _ The statue.
_ _ And you could _ _ hear people hurrying to prayers, because there's a good television program coming.
The Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
_ And you say that, and the reply is, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, Amen. _ _ _
As Coronation Street, the soap was getting closer, you know, people were going,
_ _ _ _ the _ _ second half of the play was going, _ _ _
Amen.
And I said, Hail Mary, Mother of God, grace of the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
_ Amen.
_ Hail Mary.
_ And then after you've done about seven Hail Marys, you hear, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You'd hear it from the house next door, _ Coronation Street starting.
You could see the woman going, you know, get them out of here.
And I was just sitting there, hurrying all the prayers up.
It was a nice time of my life.
You get a lot of people today, saying, kids are not the same.
We were always out playing, they're all doing the computer.
You've stolen all the _ places.
_ You've lined the street with cars.
_ Because I was born in the middle of the Second World War, but I grew up just after it.
And so there was bomb sites you could go and play in.
We thought they were haunted houses, you know.
Just big houses full of rooms and things that people had left lying around.
You could play all over, there was spare ground all over the place. _
I don't envy modern children, you know, that side of it, that physical.
_ Because when our kids were growing up, remember, I'm sure I was really boring and saying,
_ _ Remember our kids, you would have play dates.
_ _ Their friends would phone up and ask if they could come over and they'd play in it.
Or they could go to where they lived and they would play.
Well, neither of us would have let them play in a bomb site. _
I would.
_ You wouldn't. _ _ _