Dedicated to a bassplayer I once worked with, Tommy Robertson of Caithness, who used this equivalent of “thingumyjig” all the time!
I’ve never heard anyone else use the expression, so I thought it was probably time to immortalise it!
lyrics
The Doodlemychat
Whaur's the doodlemychat, the thingummybob,
the hoojimiflippery, whitsitsname?
Ah thought it wis next tae the kenwhitahmean
Bit that's no there either, oh, whit'll Ah dae?
The verra dab fir ivvery need
An perfect tae finish thon thing Ah wis at
O' aa the doohickeys that ivver Ah hid
there's nivver a wan like ma doodlemychat
Yer hingy's divine, a whoosit is fine
Bit they're nae use at aa
Fir this thing that Ah'm at
Oh, kin ye no see there's definitely
Indisputable need for a doodlemychat?
Whaur's the doodlemychat, the thingummybob,
the hoojimiflippery, whitsitsname?
It's easily seen, it's blue, or it's green,
The minute ye see it ye'll ken whit Ah mean
Whaur's the doodlemychat, the thingummybob,
the hoojimiflippery, whitsitsname?
Ah thocht it wis next tae the kenwhitahmean
Bit that's no there either, oh, whit'll Ah dae?
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