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Thread #30885   Message #4187122
Posted By: and e
30-Aug-23 - 07:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cor Bugger Janner
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cor Bugger Janner
....In his book I Joined the Navy and Saw the World Ivor Burston
describes how,, at the Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport, in 1943,
he helped write the original lyrics, and adds: 'This was first sung
in the Beer Bar and Batchy Payne was the pianist.'

45 The Oggie Song

Where be going to Jagger?
I be going to Looe.
Gor! Bugger Jagger!
I be going there too.

Chorus
Oh 'ow 'appy us will be
When us gets to the Westcountree
Where the oggies grow on trees
Gor! Bugger Jagger!

Up the Cambrone Hill we go
Down to Heston Ferry
Come on Jagger, don't be late,
Come on Jagger, hurry.

Chorus Oh 'ow 'appy, etc.

Half a pound of flour and marge
Makes lovely clacker
Just enough for you and me
Gor! Bugger Jagger!

Chorus: Oh 'ow 'appy, etc.

You make fast, I'll make fast,
Make fast the dinghy,
You make fast, I'll make fast, (or 'kiss my arse')
Make fast the dinghy,
And we'll all go back to Oggie Land,
To Oggie Land, to Oggie Land,
Yes we'll all go back to Oggie Land,
where they don't know sugar from
Tissue paper, tissue paper, marmalade and jam.

Shout: OGGIE! OGGIE! OGGIE!

Response: OINK! OINK! OINK!

Supplementary chorus:
One the quarter deck I lie
Have some starry-gazy pie
Have another pint of beer with I
Gor! Bugger Jagger!


To indicate the tune(s) to which the above words are sung is a
little complicated. The first three verses and chorus are based
on the hymn 'There is a Happy Land, Far, Far Away'. The remainder
of the song is to the unte 'Marching to Pretoria', part from the
final two lines, which have a tune of their own. The "Make fast
the dinghy' quatrain was taken over, I believe, from a marching
song of the Corps of Royal Engineers...


Grey Funnel Lines by Cyril Tawney.

See here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Grey_Funnel_Lines/r01ACwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22oggie%20land%22%20OR%20%22oggieland%22%20song&pg=PT97&printsec=frontcover