Yeke Yeke
2009 May 26
I have been looking for this song for freaking ages and since the only thing I could remember was that at some point, in a foreign language it went something like:
yek yek yek e vok yeky yeky
and that is was from about 1992, I thought I would never find it. However, I was in the boozer on Sunday and the DJ only went and played it! I was up like a freaking shot. It’s called Yeke Yeke and it’s by Mory Kante. Git some.
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Don’t be fooled. It’s piss. Not a patch on Y’Sous Ndour or Labi Sifre. Or Desmond Dekker.
Agreed, jist an itch that needed scratching.
Hoof! Nivir mind Desmond Dekker, file under sub Reggae Reggae Sauce.
Yeke Yeke Sauce
the sound of a barrel being scraped
Yeken me well
this thread makes me want to weep
Stop being a Morybund Kante
I just can’t think of a suitable pun involving any African singers. Funnily enough I was asking for some inspiration from the wife of our old PE teacher with the handle bar moustache from Beath. Do you remember her? how can I describe her? Hmm. Well she’s African. She has a son called Barry, or Baz or even Bazo for short? Don’t you remember her? Lady, Smith, Black Mam:bazo?
I’ll get me coat
Please cease and desist. I could be sacked if I get caught reading these puns whilst at work!!! Also, we may get banned from the internets.
Speaking of P.E. at school, does anybody remember when Des was spat at by that crazy bird? I was like “Des min, deck her”, but he wouldnay hit a lassie. Chivalrous tae the end that boy.
you’ve got to admire that. Who wis the lassie?
By contrast, when Cheryl Whyte tried to trip James up walking up the road one night after Partners, he responded by pushing her over. Blair Muffet, Cheryl’s beau of the time, consequently responding by giving James a bunch of fives.
I saw Scotty Allen on the Bank Holiday when I dropped Liam off at school. He has kinda long hair now, but still has the white streak in the middle at the back. Really looks like a skunk, I must say.
Sorry, should I have used codenames above?
Also, just to highlight in Mormanski’s story: “I was like ‘Des min, deck her’.” No such qualms on meating out violent reprisals to females from Mormanski I note.
I made the entire thing up so that I could crack the pun “des min, deck her”. Are you serious?
I am. I’ve embarassed myself. This is my ‘There’s alot of arsin’ around’ moment.
Reminds me of when Big Chief Sitting Bull felt Jim Morrison had insulted his people in Ghost Song and threatened to “wring every penny from fork tongue junkie”.
I explained that the song was in fact a homage to the spiritual ways of his people and left Sitting Bull with the advice: Yousue NoDoor.
Glad for that tumbleweed moment from Roochero. Helps take the heat off my blip.
You say blip, the world says trait