# ISIRTA songs

ISIRTA songs are the songs, listed in alphabetical order, which were featured in episodes of the British comedy radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again.
The songs were written by Bill Oddie unless specified otherwise.

## Songs
### Aardvark, Ferret, Vulture

* sung by John Cleese (main) cast (Chorus)
* Play: "A Fairy Tale"

### Baby Go To Sleep

(Lullaby)
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 9

### Baby Samba

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play:

### Blimpht

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Plays: "Robin Hood" / "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" (record)

### Bounce

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Robinson Prunestone"

### Cactus In My Y-Fronts

* sung by Bill Oddie (with Graeme Garden as the "Yodelling Coyote")
* Play: "Jack the Ripper"

### Cricket Tranquiliser

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "The Lone Stranger"

### Denmark Street

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: Professor Prune & The Electric Time Trousers -part 13

### Favourite Melody (Beethoven's Fifth)

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Plays: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 4 / "William the Conqueror"

### The Ferret Song

* Songwriters: John Cleese and Graham Chapman
* Introduction by David Hatch
* sung by John Cleese (and Gang – alias: "The Lovin' Pruneful")
* Comment by Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 1

### The Ferrets of Old England

* Introduction by David Hatch
* sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
* Comment by Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 8

### Ferry Across the Mersey

(Liverpudlian Love Song)
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Liverpool the City"

### Hey There, You With the Tzar in Your Pies

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp"

### Hovercraft Ride

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: Professor Prune & The Electric Time Trousers - part 2

### I Love a Show (Footlights)

* sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
* Comments by Tim Brooke-Taylor and John Cleese
* Spoon playing and tap dancing: John Cleese
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 13

### I Love Youooo

(Yippee)
* sung by Jean Hart and Bill Oddie
* Play: "RAF Briefing"

### Identikit Gal

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Plays: "Robin Hood" / "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" (special)

### I'm Gonna Live

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "All Hands on Venus"

### I'm Lenin on a Lamp-post at the Corner of the Street

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp"

### In the Moonlight

(Portuguese Dictionary Song)
* sung by Bill Oddie
* English translations by John Cleese
* Play: "The Ghost of Objectionable Manor"

### In the Old Bazaar in Cairo

* sung by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
Play: "Search for the Nile"

### Ironing My Goldfish

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: Tales Of The Circus

### It's Spring

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Champion the Wonder Mouse"

### I've Got the Hiccups

* sung by
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 10

### Joke Song

* sung by Bill Oddie (with the other joke by John Cleese)
* Play: "Othello"

### Julie Andrews

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Operation 'Chocolate'"

### Just One of Those Things

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Ali Baba and the 38 Thieves"

### Keep Fit Class

* sung by
* Plays: History – 10,000 B.C. / Liverpool the City

### Knitting

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Catermole Sharp and Dr. Gaskit" (Sherlock Holmes)

### Let There Be

* sung by
* Play: "Dr. Why and the Thing"

### Liverpool Girl

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Liverpool the City"

### The Masochism Song

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Moll Flanders"

### Magical Mystery Four: I Am the Milkman

(Beatles send-up)
* sung by
* Play: "Bunny and Claude"

### Man's Best Friend – a Dog

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Butler Dunnit"

### Man's Best Friend – a Duck

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 11

### Meet Me in the Churchyard, Nellie

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "The Supernatural"

### My Baby's Become a Folk Singer

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Robin Hood"

### My Mom Has Lost My Dad

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 2

### Nuclear Submarine

* sung by Bill Oddie, David Hatch, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Play: "Dr. Why and the Thing"

### On Ilkla' Moor Baht 'At

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: Professor Prune & The Electric Time Trousers - part 3

### Police Constable Herbert Platt, Somerset Constabulary – Greatest Lawman of Them All

* sung by Bill Oddie
* P. C. Herbert Platt: John Cleese
* Play: "Julius Caesar"

### Protect My Honey On Her Journey: Send Her by Post

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "England Our England (Learning to Fly)"

### Recorded 'Live in Cabaret

(in the Cafe "Ole")
* Introduction by David Hatch
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Night Club Compere: Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Recording Artist: Bill Oddie
* The four Diners: John Cleese, David Hatch, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jo Kendall
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 5

### Reminiscences (Nappy Days)

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "The Vikings"

### Repeat After Me

* sung by
* Play: "William Tell"

### Rhubarb Tart

* sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
* Play: "The Supernatural"

### Rock With A Policeman

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play:

### She's Gone

* sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang) – with comment by Jean Hart)
* Play: "RAF Briefing"

### The Ship Put to Sea in the Month of May

(Madrigal arrangement for four voices and Tim Brooke-Taylor)
* Songwriters: Eric Idle and John Cameron
Introduction by David Hatch
* sung by David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall and Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Play: "Julius Caesar"

### Sick Man Blues

* sung by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Play: "Star Trek"

### Something About Restaurant Food

* sung by
* Play: "A Fairy Story"

### Stop It, I Like It

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Angus Prune, Footballer"

### Take It Off

(dieting)
* sung by
* Play: "Tim Brown's Schooldays"

### Taking My Oyster For Walkies

* Introduction by David Hatch
* sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
* Play: "Dentisti"

### Telephone Directory

* sung by
* Play: "Voyages of Ulysses"

### The Terrapin Song

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Laurence of the Antarctic – On Ice"

### Trio Los Banditos

* sung by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden
* Chief Bandito (on guitar) – Graeme Garden
* Jose (on bongo drums) – Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Manuel (on maracas) – Bill Oddie
* Play: "Incompetence"

### Waiter, there's a Walrus in My Soup

* Introduction by David Hatch
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Camelot"

### Waiting for the London Bus (spiritual)

* sung by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and David Hatch
* Play: "England Our England (Learning to Fly)"

### We're Going to a Football Match

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Teddy and Rupert Bear"

### What a Wonderful World

* sung by Bill Oddie (a la Louis Armstrong)
(including tonsillectomy)
* Concerned friends – Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Hatch
* Doctor – John Cleese
* Nurse – Jo Kendall
* Play: "Macbeth"

### When You Wish Upon a Star

* sung by Bill Oddie and Jo Kendall
* Play: "Star Trek"

### When You Wish Upon a Tzar

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp"

### Where Is My Smile

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 3

### Why Can't the Animals

* sung by
* Play: "The Inimitable Grimbling"

### With a Girl Like You: Wild Things

* sung by Bill Oddie
* comment by David Hatch
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 6

### Working on the Railroad

* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 7

### Yodelling Goatherd

* sung by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and the Cast
* Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 12