Rude Songs!

I haven’t heard one of these, for some reason they weren’t sang in The Band of Hope

Annie

MOnica ….they say you learn something everyday, and somehow I had never heard that expression "bowdlerised" before, interesting.

I googled the verses, all I could remember was the chorus. Trust me to find the cleaner version!

Thanks yggdrasil I hadn't heard many of the verses before. It's a bit near the knuckle as they say. Sign of my misspent youth I'm afraid.?

seacliff Sorry, Thomas Bowdler, was an 18th century doctor, who published 'The Family Shakespeare'. Shakespeare's plays, with all the improper bits removed. It was intended to provide a version of Shakespeare suitable for reading in the family home.

As a result the verb 'bowdlerised' gets used to describe any material which has been sanitised by having all the improper bits removed.

I was being flippant. My version of the last line of the chorus was just a bit more 'restrained' than the version I knew

correction! your version of the chorus was.......

Thanks Monica, now I'll be looking for a chance to use that expression!

Ha ha Annie I thought I had replied but clearly did not press post! I was a good chapel girl but did not learn these songs there! From tge school playground mostly. Mind you most of the ones I know are just mildly smutty, some other examples given have been really filthy and a bit shocking!!

polly, our teachers were also chapel members , no escape ?
I hadn’t heard one of these songs but never to old to learn

You do need the tunes as well as the words, Anniebach. I hope you can find Youtube renderings of the songs.

Many inappropriate songs were heard by spending time at my father's rugby club! A favourite was the following, sung to the tune of Le Marsellaise. WARNING you are likely to think of these words every time you hear the beautiful French national anthem (I know I do!), So don't read if you don't want to take that chance!

A Frenchman went to the lavatory,
To enjoy a jolly good shit;
He took his coat and trousers off,
So that he could revel in it;
But when he reached for the paper,
He found that someone had been there before
Ou est le papier, ou est le papier;
Monsieur, monsieur, j'ai fait 'manure';
Ou est le papier!

They are on uTube ? To misquote Capt Oats, ‘ I am just stepping outside of this forum, and may be some time.

I just came back to this thread. What a laugh. It fair cheered me up. I especially like the one about Nellie. Not the rudest but I knew those ones already.

Annie!

I didn't learn these songs at my convent either. But three years at uni educated me in many ways.

What I missed by failing most A’levels

Annie ~We are always being told that education is a lifelong thing. You are never too old to learn and that includes rude songs.

I have just visited uTube Elegran, ?

Some of my favourite songs are not rude as such - but irrevent perhaps.

I was a great fan of Tom Lehrer when I was young - such songs as 'Poisoning Pigeons in the Park'.

We also liked 'With her Head Tucked Underneath her Arm' by Stanley Holloway.

Most teenage girls loved Elvis!

Does anyone remember 'She sat on the veranda and played her guitar'? Not really rude but quite macabre. I used to think it very funny.

I've just thought of another very childish one-
Fatty and Skinny went up in a balloon
Fatty let a f--t off and blew Skinny doon.
Youtube has many variations on that one.

Jalima and Albert and the Lion:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaw-savyK0s

.Much loved in primary school:

I chased a bug around a tree
I'll catch his blood, he knows I will

Say it fast!!!

Ah, I love Tom Lehrer!

Who can forget lines such as "I hold your hand in mine dear, and wish you were still here" followed by something like "I cut it off the night you died"

From the early 1970s:

Rolling down the runway
In the batmobile
Batman did a bat fart and paralysed the wheel
Robin couldn’t stand it
The engine fell apart
All because of Batman’s supersonic fart!