This song starts out with hauntingly beautiful chords. Even the vocals start a little bit serious for the first few lines. Then it gets nuts in a hurry. But the recorders make it solemn and serious again. Well as serious as these guys can get!
Watch them live! I saw them in Boca last Saturday and when they played this song they ended it with all 3 of them playing flute solos and running around the stage pelvic thrusting
In the summer of 1353 As I sat beneath the willow tree I decided on that day to woo a lady I went to the florist and I said to she I need a flower for today I'll be A-woo woo woo-w-w-wooing a lady I'll hold this flower beneath her nose It should smell as sweet as a rose For this, she said, I'd recommend the rose For a rose-like scent, I'd probably go with the rose I said sounds like exactly what I need I'll take one of those I went to the tailor for to buy Some clothing of the latest style Which at the time were tights and pointy boots You know those greenish kind of tights and those Peter Pan-y kind of boots Really tight tights and Peter Pan-y boots to woo a lady I said to the hairdresser cut my hair He said I'll cut it like the page boys wear A really popular look with page boys now Just a straight line across the brow I'll get a ruler and some scissors and I'll do it for you right now Very hot look if you're trying to woo a lady I needed a horse so I went to the stable Stable man, would I be able To hire a horse from which to woo a lady? He said there are three things that I must see One florin and two forms of ID I said alas, I have no ID on me Who even carries ID in 1353? I maketh not the rules, quoth he I handmade a tapestry of me And said this is me in 1353 To prove that I was legitimate I had my mother write up a birth certificate It wasn't easy as she's illiterate But I really, really needed it To hire this damn horse so that I may woo a lady I got a really massive horse so I could impress this lady For but a penny more a day, he did upgrade me [Recorder solo] From a hilltop a lady I did view And I knew exactly what to do The time had come for me to woo this lady And I said woooo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo you-oo woo woo woo woo woo woo you lady I said woo woo woo woo woo woo-hoo woo-hoo lady I am wooing you Woo w-w-woo woo woo this is how I woo a lady The lady then said unto me Sir, you can't woo me so easily It takes more than just going woo woo to woo a lady But I have a rose scented rose which they call a rose And I hold this rose beneath your nose I have a massive horse and the finest clothes All of these things I do to woo you lady She said, the horse is big and the tights are fun But the hairdo's a little 1351 In fact it makes you look a bit like a lady I swore as you approached, that you were a lady And that gigantic horse just emphasises that you look like a lady And I replied yes, yes I heard you the first time She said I am to be married to the king We are to be wed this coming spring And if you want my hand you'd have to challenge him To that thing on the horses with those pointy things You'll have to battle to the death with those things with the point eachother with those pointy things I said is that the time? I must be on my way I'm late for a medieval play If it matters not to you, either way I'll just say that I wooed you anyway I'll just tell all my friends that I woo w-w-w-wooed you lady Because there's a wager in the village that I'd never woo a lady And I left going woooo woo woo woo woo woo woo I just wooed you Woo woo woo woo woo, this is how I woo a lady
Every performance is slightly different. Sometimes he sais ''hot look'' and sometimes he says ''hard look'' (I prefer ''hard look''). In another performance he added a line about, ''In fact I swore as you approached, that you were indeed a lady".
Thanks! and mind you, I sat in the 21st row. the camera was Sony dsc-hx1, I'm quite pleased with the purchase I have to say. Thanks for your comment too!
Yeah, I can't stop watching this either. heard this song for the first time when Conchords played in Berkeley on the 28th of May, I think, and loved it. This is the best version of it that i've found on YouTuBe, so thanks.
She said, "The horse is huge and the tights are fun but the hair is a little 1351, in fact it makes you look a bit like a lady. I swore as you approached that you were a lady. And that gigantic horse just emphasises that you look like a lady."
Hello. I would like to know if i can download this version to make portuguese subtitles and put on my channel? Or i can make the subtitles and you put in this video. Please, just let me know. This song is amazing - and the quality of this video is incredible.
@LordMrPie It's a very simple song. It just goes back and forth between Dm and Am, like so: (Dm)In the summer of thirteen fifty-(Am)three As I (Dm)sat beneath a willow (Am)tree I de(Dm)cided on that (Am)day to woo a (Dm)lady. And that basically repeats through the whole song.
He said, "There are three things that I must see: one florin and two forms of I.D." I said, "I don't have any I.D. on me, who even carries I.D. in 1353?!" "I maketh not the rules," quot
Just wonderful. How I would have been there... I was wondering if maybe Jemaine was reading the lyrics from somewhere... It looks like he's often looking to his left... maybe it's just my imagination
I'm going to talk about this however I can since I get no justice or explanations and I encourage any woman who has had this done to her talk about it and come forward. Those I knew on Dentonia who not only were unprovoked idiots since almost as soon as I moved in, who also knew my breasts were deformed and didn't find it weird and some even seemed amused. The neighbour Nan( don't know her last name, that's what they called her. I'm sure her name was Nancy)who wrote a letter to the city saying I was a drug dealer and a whore when I was with Julian. Jessica Deschamps Brian( her boyfriend and Jacob's father) Norm and Beverly were the landlords and they had a daughter named Bev. who had a kid. I thought that Norm and Brian had the same name when my head was being messed up. (Father and son) Penny and Bob McDonald or MacDonald. Larry Downey and his wife Joy( I thought Larry was a friend. Mike( don't remember his last name and he was the nastiest of them all) The guy( I'm sure his name was the same as Jesse's dog-Jeremy- who I barely knew, who lived behind us and who offered me the beer that deformed my breasts and denied it when I confronted him) I told Kim Terrell, I told Guin Scriver who's first reaction was to scoff, or snicker. I'm pretty sure Angelo and Scott knew. All the doctors I've seen since knew. Alex knew. Carlos knew. Any guy with me since that day probably knew. They're almost all animals and almost all of them were cruel and jealous and I have no idea why. They're not man enough, nor ever were man enough to tell me the truth, and most of them were FUGLY! My mom and me went to California afterwards and I saw something weird in the sky. After that Ross and Sue took me to Florida when my supposed grandfather died and they took me to Hooters for some demented reason. They seemed to find it amusing. There was an article in Now magazine after that that talked about how inverted nipples were present in three percent of women( they must mean human women abused by disgusting cowards because I wasn't born that way) Then they made the beaches in Toronto topless and had articles about it in the newspaper, that's how idiotic and disgusting this city is and was. I never bragged about myself and that's a fact. I simply found something about myself that was attractive and the idiots couldn't handle it. I didn't know anyone was invading my privacy anyway. I'm telling the world however I can so that pretty girls avoid cowardly ugly creatures like them. They have access to concoctions and drugs and chemicals that most naive people are unaware of. They also took every advantage they could to try and make me feel insecure about it and now I know they're all disgusting, perverse cowards who are mostly shallow and plastic anyway or very ugly. I never asked for revenge, I didn't know why most of my life. I cried about it often. I asked many doctors for answers. If any of them did have anything happen to them, they deserve it. I didn't do anything to them to deserve what they did to me. That's a fact. Anyone who did do anything to them because of what they did to me, thank you. Even though they avenged themselves on me without me even knowing why, typical, I still thank you and appreciate the effort and understanding. Those things are hateful, I still wonder if they did the same to my mom. Them avenging themselves on their victims is proof of how idiotic and mindless they are, always were, and always will be. Another reason I feel Ross is not my real father. Sue looks ridiculous. Fake boobs are ridiculous. I'll stay natural no matter what they did to me. It was their shallow insecurities that caused them to do it to me in the first place. They were supposed to be friends and family, that's how demented they are. You ever been divorced, sent to the streets and had a nasty thing who was supposed to be a step-mother whine about her niece losing her boyfriend who was going to jail and losing her house? I never had a house and was terrified and very sad. They are sick, selfish, demented beings and they are not human. My mom told me they were not nice people. I don't understand why they needed to know me when they were never family. Since I was a girl I never spent Christmas with them, always asked friends why they did certain things to me as I did about the Rusts. There's something really nasty about what Sue Smith/Hoffman is. I'd bet she knew long before my life fell apart that they were going to ruin my life. Is there ever a day that they think like rational and kind human beings? What goes on in their sick and twisted heads that would allow them to treat a young girl that way and into adulthood and never be human enough to say the truth? When will they man enough to tell me why? What is it about me and possibly my mother that makes them so evil to us? Because they see us as dirt? What are they? Animals. Disgusting and selfish and cruel animals. Ross said my anger caused all this long before I knew what was going on. I never got angry, I didn't even know. I had forgotten about Jeremy and his beer after awhile. I cried most of the time. That's how cruel and evil they are and unwilling to accept responsibility for their own lies and nasty behavior. They always blame others and never tell the truth. That's really sadistic and demented. They are truly cruel beings and I don't know anyone else. I don't understand what happened to Ross after I was a child and saw him crying on a visit and saying he couldn't look after me, but he changed and he became a very nasty being. His wife, Sue, I don't know what her problem is, I never knew what any of their problems and issues were. Psychos. That's all I can figure about it all. Cruel and selfish and psychotic beings with no shame or guilt. And then there's also the sick things they did to peoples minds, Kathy and I'm sure the Rusts, when I was just a little girl. All demented and sadistic. Cruel to anyone who might know what they are and don't kiss their nasty asses. Misanthropy-nasty beings who are not human no matter what they say. They hated me since I was a child and still don't say why. Things that evil and that cowardly don't deserve the comforts and companionship they have while denying victims their own comforts and companionship.
I'd also like to add that since it's obvious that those that I were thought were friends and family don't care nor care to be honest, that I deserve to know who opened my eyes, who told me truth and who cared about my feelings unlike the disgusting animals around me most of my life. I'm afraid the only person that cared about how I was being lied to and about and who cared about my feelings and how hurt I was most of the time is dead, and I don't know who they are, but they aren't around me now. Things around me now have no moral conscience nor human emotions and are mostly the same as what's always been facelessly abusing me. The only thing I know for sure is these disgusting animals who insinuate and make insinuative comments and obstruct me from proper justice and healthcare will never be honest.
it’s been 670 years since this song came out… still a bop!
This is an absolute masterpiece.
My favourite version.
This song really makes me laugh every single time
This song starts out with hauntingly beautiful chords. Even the vocals start a little bit serious for the first few lines. Then it gets nuts in a hurry. But the recorders make it solemn and serious again. Well as serious as these guys can get!
Bret is so talented!! The flute, guitar even the piano
Watch them live! I saw them in Boca last Saturday and when they played this song they ended it with all 3 of them playing flute solos and running around the stage pelvic thrusting
Woo-ooo would have been enough for me, Jemaine.
In the summer of 1353
As I sat beneath the willow tree
I decided on that day to woo a lady
I went to the florist and I said to she
I need a flower for today I'll be
A-woo woo woo-w-w-wooing a lady
I'll hold this flower beneath her nose
It should smell as sweet as a rose
For this, she said, I'd recommend the rose
For a rose-like scent, I'd probably go with the rose
I said sounds like exactly what I need
I'll take one of those
I went to the tailor for to buy
Some clothing of the latest style
Which at the time were tights and pointy boots
You know those greenish kind of tights and those Peter Pan-y kind of boots
Really tight tights and Peter Pan-y boots to woo a lady
I said to the hairdresser cut my hair
He said I'll cut it like the page boys wear
A really popular look with page boys now
Just a straight line across the brow
I'll get a ruler and some scissors and I'll do it for you right now
Very hot look if you're trying to woo a lady
I needed a horse so I went to the stable
Stable man, would I be able
To hire a horse from which to woo a lady?
He said there are three things that I must see
One florin and two forms of ID
I said alas, I have no ID on me
Who even carries ID in 1353?
I maketh not the rules, quoth he
I handmade a tapestry of me
And said this is me in 1353
To prove that I was legitimate
I had my mother write up a birth certificate
It wasn't easy as she's illiterate
But I really, really needed it
To hire this damn horse so that I may woo a lady
I got a really massive horse so I could impress this lady
For but a penny more a day, he did upgrade me
[Recorder solo]
From a hilltop a lady I did view
And I knew exactly what to do
The time had come for me to woo this lady
And I said woooo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo you-oo woo woo woo woo woo woo you lady
I said woo woo woo woo woo woo-hoo woo-hoo lady I am wooing you
Woo w-w-woo woo woo this is how I woo a lady
The lady then said unto me
Sir, you can't woo me so easily
It takes more than just going woo woo to woo a lady
But I have a rose scented rose which they call a rose
And I hold this rose beneath your nose
I have a massive horse and the finest clothes
All of these things I do to woo you lady
She said, the horse is big and the tights are fun
But the hairdo's a little 1351
In fact it makes you look a bit like a lady
I swore as you approached, that you were a lady
And that gigantic horse just emphasises that you look like a lady
And I replied yes, yes I heard you the first time
She said I am to be married to the king
We are to be wed this coming spring
And if you want my hand you'd have to challenge him
To that thing on the horses with those pointy things
You'll have to battle to the death with those things with the point eachother with those pointy things
I said is that the time? I must be on my way
I'm late for a medieval play
If it matters not to you, either way
I'll just say that I wooed you anyway
I'll just tell all my friends that I woo w-w-w-wooed you lady
Because there's a wager in the village that I'd never woo a lady
And I left going woooo woo woo woo woo woo woo I just wooed you
Woo woo woo woo woo, this is how I woo a lady
Anton Broomé
*handmade a tapestry
*hire this damn horse
ahhhh, thanks for this, mate
very hard* look if you are trying to woo a lady
Every performance is slightly different. Sometimes he sais ''hot look'' and sometimes he says ''hard look'' (I prefer ''hard look'').
In another performance he added a line about, ''In fact I swore as you approached, that you were indeed a lady".
@@davidvondoom2853 yeah, sometimes he says "is that the time? I should be on my way. I think I'm coming down with a bit of the plague."
they need a new album for everyone to enjoy instead of just shows, i hope it's not too long
Good to know the general rules of wooing haven't changed in 650 years :D
..... you cant of heard their song "if your into it " where wooing becomes a team sport :D
In the thumbnail Jemaine Clement looks like Bruce Banner turning into the Hulk.
Thanks! and mind you, I sat in the 21st row. the camera was Sony dsc-hx1, I'm quite pleased with the purchase I have to say. Thanks for your comment too!
I still like this version the best
Samedt.
Yeah, I can't stop watching this either. heard this song for the first time when Conchords played in Berkeley on the 28th of May, I think, and loved it. This is the best version of it that i've found on YouTuBe, so thanks.
Amazing! I saw them at Wembley the week before you, best gig I've ever been to, and I've had this in my head ever since, so thanks for posting!
Been needing this for a few days. Just hit it at 1 am, before bed. Who knows. I just need some woowoo
I can't stop watching this video. Thanks for posting it! I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday and it was magical.
Saw these two guys last night in Raleigh... Great show!
..except for the sad fact that it took place in Raleigh. Who....who....who...I ask...would dwell in such a place????
I will never get sick of this song :) I wish I was a guy just so I could sing this to a lady :P
I wish i was a dog so i could eat carrots.
Shaddup Emily! All girls named Emily are sociopaths! It is known!!!!!!
She said, "The horse is huge and the tights are fun
but the hair is a little 1351,
in fact it makes you look a bit like a lady.
I swore as you approached that you were a lady.
And that gigantic horse just emphasises that you look like a lady."
Fight of the Conchords plays Fleet Foxes
HBO has said they are ready for another season, it's up to the Conchords, and they don't seem to want to at this point. But lets hope they do.
The best version of this song 😂
Doesnt have the recorder soli
The best would be these lyrics on the more recent scenario (voices, recorder, etc.)
For a rose-like scent, I'd probably go with a rose.
I'm feeling like a cover of this song from Jethro Tull should have existed.
Flight of the Conchords MOVIE!!!!!!!!!
wish they still made songs :(
thanks for the upload. good audio quality
+TheMegatomicDragon oo I'd love to see them live
What a great song!
Hello. I would like to know if i can download this version to make portuguese subtitles and put on my channel? Or i can make the subtitles and you put in this video.
Please, just let me know. This song is amazing - and the quality of this video is incredible.
Sure, go for it.
Thanks! I'll put the link to the original vídeo :D
HBO did'nt cancel the show Bret & Jemaine decided not to do another series due to wanting to keep the standards up
@LordMrPie It's a very simple song. It just goes back and forth between Dm and Am, like so:
(Dm)In the summer of thirteen fifty-(Am)three
As I (Dm)sat beneath a willow (Am)tree
I de(Dm)cided on that (Am)day to woo a (Dm)lady.
And that basically repeats through the whole song.
fantastic!
Still waiting on that movie.
"..and that gigantic horse just emphasizes that you look like a lady...." ROFL
As Spinal Tap would say: the more it stays the same, the less it changes!
He said, "There are three things that I must see:
one florin and two forms of I.D."
I said, "I don't have any I.D. on me,
who even carries I.D. in 1353?!"
"I maketh not the rules," quot
*"Alas, I have no ID on me"
Just wonderful. How I would have been there...
I was wondering if maybe Jemaine was reading the lyrics from somewhere... It looks like he's often looking to his left... maybe it's just my imagination
thanks Gavin Wolfe ; )
Good stuff,... Good stuff. Ehh Manic Bunny? :-D
Gavin Wolfe yah that was great..need to create a Gavin playlist for you on my youtube. Shitty as it is..at least you'll be there ; ))
Ooooo, a Gavin Playlist?! YAY!! :-D
brilliant
what kind of a camera were you using? the quality is great!
Just came for a refresher on how to approach the opposite sex. Covid is almost over and it's time to woo once more.
Dolly Parton-Jolene(
@katiucciaFL i was there too! it was epic!!!
what kind of whistle is that which Brett plays? a Recorder?
What is the instrument Bret plays around 3:30 in?
+Ben Sloup a wooden flute or recorder is another term/type
i just saw them do this last Thurdsay, they are various recorders...then they went into a recorder jam & dance
Who even carries I.D. In 1353 😂😂😂😂😂
TINY DESK CONCERTS????
Whens the new album come out?
I dont get it, why would rows smell like a rose?
They usually smell like sweat to me.
durki11 I don't know what you think "rows" means but you don't have a joke there
Fail!
I'm going to talk about this however I can since I get no justice or explanations and I encourage any woman who has had this done to her talk about it and come forward. Those I knew on Dentonia who not only were unprovoked idiots since almost as soon as I moved in, who also knew my breasts were deformed and didn't find it weird and some even seemed amused. The neighbour Nan( don't know her last name, that's what they called her. I'm sure her name was Nancy)who wrote a letter to the city saying I was a drug dealer and a whore when I was with Julian.
Jessica Deschamps
Brian( her boyfriend and Jacob's father)
Norm and Beverly were the landlords and they had a daughter named Bev. who had a kid.
I thought that Norm and Brian had the same name when my head was being messed up. (Father and son)
Penny and Bob McDonald or MacDonald.
Larry Downey and his wife Joy( I thought Larry was a friend.
Mike( don't remember his last name and he was the nastiest of them all)
The guy( I'm sure his name was the same as Jesse's dog-Jeremy- who I barely knew, who lived behind us and who offered me the beer that deformed my breasts and denied it when I confronted him)
I told Kim Terrell, I told Guin Scriver who's first reaction was to scoff, or snicker. I'm pretty sure Angelo and Scott knew. All the doctors I've seen since knew. Alex knew. Carlos knew. Any guy with me since that day probably knew. They're almost all animals and almost all of them were cruel and jealous and I have no idea why. They're not man enough, nor ever were man enough to tell me the truth, and most of them were FUGLY!
My mom and me went to California afterwards and I saw something weird in the sky. After that Ross and Sue took me to Florida when my supposed grandfather died and they took me to Hooters for some demented reason. They seemed to find it amusing. There was an article in Now magazine after that that talked about how inverted nipples were present in three percent of women( they must mean human women abused by disgusting cowards because I wasn't born that way) Then they made the beaches in Toronto topless and had articles about it in the newspaper, that's how idiotic and disgusting this city is and was.
I never bragged about myself and that's a fact. I simply found something about myself that was attractive and the idiots couldn't handle it. I didn't know anyone was invading my privacy anyway. I'm telling the world however I can so that pretty girls avoid cowardly ugly creatures like them. They have access to concoctions and drugs and chemicals that most naive people are unaware of. They also took every advantage they could to try and make me feel insecure about it and now I know they're all disgusting, perverse cowards who are mostly shallow and plastic anyway or very ugly.
I never asked for revenge, I didn't know why most of my life. I cried about it often. I asked many doctors for answers. If any of them did have anything happen to them, they deserve it. I didn't do anything to them to deserve what they did to me. That's a fact. Anyone who did do anything to them because of what they did to me, thank you. Even though they avenged themselves on me without me even knowing why, typical, I still thank you and appreciate the effort and understanding. Those things are hateful, I still wonder if they did the same to my mom. Them avenging themselves on their victims is proof of how idiotic and mindless they are, always were, and always will be. Another reason I feel Ross is not my real father. Sue looks ridiculous. Fake boobs are ridiculous. I'll stay natural no matter what they did to me. It was their shallow insecurities that caused them to do it to me in the first place. They were supposed to be friends and family, that's how demented they are. You ever been divorced, sent to the streets and had a nasty thing who was supposed to be a step-mother whine about her niece losing her boyfriend who was going to jail and losing her house? I never had a house and was terrified and very sad. They are sick, selfish, demented beings and they are not human.
My mom told me they were not nice people. I don't understand why they needed to know me when they were never family. Since I was a girl I never spent Christmas with them, always asked friends why they did certain things to me as I did about the Rusts. There's something really nasty about what Sue Smith/Hoffman is. I'd bet she knew long before my life fell apart that they were going to ruin my life. Is there ever a day that they think like rational and kind human beings? What goes on in their sick and twisted heads that would allow them to treat a young girl that way and into adulthood and never be human enough to say the truth? When will they man enough to tell me why? What is it about me and possibly my mother that makes them so evil to us? Because they see us as dirt? What are they? Animals. Disgusting and selfish and cruel animals. Ross said my anger caused all this long before I knew what was going on. I never got angry, I didn't even know. I had forgotten about Jeremy and his beer after awhile. I cried most of the time. That's how cruel and evil they are and unwilling to accept responsibility for their own lies and nasty behavior. They always blame others and never tell the truth. That's really sadistic and demented. They are truly cruel beings and I don't know anyone else. I don't understand what happened to Ross after I was a child and saw him crying on a visit and saying he couldn't look after me, but he changed and he became a very nasty being. His wife, Sue, I don't know what her problem is, I never knew what any of their problems and issues were. Psychos. That's all I can figure about it all. Cruel and selfish and psychotic beings with no shame or guilt.
And then there's also the sick things they did to peoples minds, Kathy and I'm sure the Rusts, when I was just a little girl. All demented and sadistic. Cruel to anyone who might know what they are and don't kiss their nasty asses. Misanthropy-nasty beings who are not human no matter what they say. They hated me since I was a child and still don't say why. Things that evil and that cowardly don't deserve the comforts and companionship they have while denying victims their own comforts and companionship.
I'd also like to add that since it's obvious that those that I were thought were friends and family don't care nor care to be honest, that I deserve to know who opened my eyes, who told me truth and who cared about my feelings unlike the disgusting animals around me most of my life. I'm afraid the only person that cared about how I was being lied to and about and who cared about my feelings and how hurt I was most of the time is dead, and I don't know who they are, but they aren't around me now. Things around me now have no moral conscience nor human emotions and are mostly the same as what's always been facelessly abusing me. The only thing I know for sure is these disgusting animals who insinuate and make insinuative comments and obstruct me from proper justice and healthcare will never be honest.