Subject: I have lost my underwear From: GUEST,The Connor Girls Date: 07 Aug 04 - 10:15 PM this is a song we learned as children, does anyone know this one? Oh, I have lost my underwear, I don't care, I'll go bare, bye, bye blackbird. they were very close to me, tickly, Yee hee hee, bye bye blackbird. If you should ever come across them, would you please tell them that I lost them, Oh, I have lost my underwear, I don't care I'll to bare, bye bye blackbird..... |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Rabbi-Sol Date: 07 Aug 04 - 11:03 PM When I was a kid, we used to sing a parody to God Bless America. God bless my underwear My only pair Stand beside them And guide them That is all of the song I remember from 55 years ago. SOL ZELLER |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 08 Aug 04 - 01:21 AM My mummy used to tell me if I thought naughty thoughts I would turn to stone... I think I've started.... |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: GUEST Date: 08 Aug 04 - 07:51 AM During the 1940s in Ireland the Flour used in baking bread came in bags made from linen, a couple of these bags sewn together made many a good sturdy pair of knickers. Printed on the Flour bags was the firms name along with their motto,"the early bird gets the worm" and this bird was a Blackbird, we would have teased the girls by requests to see their"Blackbird". Although I don`t remember any rhyme relating to this. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 08 Aug 04 - 09:53 AM Sandy Paton, on one of his and Caroline's kids' albums on Folk-Legacy, has a great song, "I Wonder Where's My Underwear". It's not the song you are asking about, but it might add to your song list (a set about underwear?). It is certainly a song worth learning. Kids like it. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: dick greenhaus Date: 08 Aug 04 - 10:06 AM Once I went in swimmin' Where there were no women By the deep blue sea Seein' no one there, I hung my underwear Upon a willow tree Dove into the water Just like Pharaoh's daughter Dove into the Nile-- Someone saw me there Stole my underwear And left me with a smile. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Joe_F Date: 08 Aug 04 - 10:10 AM How does one do that? I wondered when I saw a pair of underpants next to a path in Fellsmere Park. But then I reflected: All it takes is a little good luck followed by a little bad luck. I wish the best of luck to all the grownups on this thread. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: GUEST Date: 08 Aug 04 - 01:11 PM Connor Girls, yes I remember this from my girl guide campfire days, but we used to sing "bye, bye long johns" - a parody of Bye, Bye Blackbird. I have lost my underwear I don't care, I'll go bare Bye, bye long johns They were very dear to me They tickled me, tee, hee, hee Bye, bye long johns How I miss that little trap door behind me If you see it you'll know where to find me I have lost my underwear I don't care, I'll go bare Bye, bye long johns |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: ToulouseCruise Date: 09 Aug 04 - 08:52 AM GUEST, I have a variation of your third verse... If you see that little trap door behind me You will know exactly where to find me... oh, and the big finish at the end, has the line reversed... I have lost my underwear I don't care, I'll go bare Long johns... bye-bye. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:03 AM And another underwear song from my mother: Rich girls wear ruffles on their pants Poor girls wear them plain If you don't wear none at all You should be ashamed. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:57 AM "Hi ho Silverware Tonto lost his underwear. Tonto say, "Me no care, Lone Ranger buy me 'nother pair!" An old rhyme learned in those dim dark days of childhood........... |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 04 - 10:00 AM I see London I see France I see ________'s underpants! The ultimate putdown among the 5 year old set in 19..... |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Joe_F Date: 09 Aug 04 - 04:46 PM Well, in the 5-year-old set in Beverly Hills, CA, 1942, it was Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see ---'s underwear. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Shanghaiceltic Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:56 PM I must go down to the sea again The lonely sea and the sky I left my knickers and socks there I wonder if they're dry. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Flash Company Date: 10 Aug 04 - 05:40 AM I left my hat in San Francisco, My Umberella in Times Square And in Alaska , where it snows, I left my underclothes, But as I had another pair, I don't care! Somrthing like that, anyway! FC |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 10 Aug 04 - 06:00 AM Lost Underwear! Flash Company! ROFL! |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Flash Company Date: 10 Aug 04 - 09:19 AM Foolestroupe: OOH you are awful! But I like you!! FC |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Cool Beans Date: 10 Aug 04 - 10:31 AM Rabbi Sol, the rest of "God Bless My Underwent" went... From the washer, To the dryer, To the clothesline, In the air, God bless my underwear, My only pair. God bless my underwear. My only pair. (Nobody ever balked at the redundancy of the dryer AND the clothesline. Curious.) |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Jen M Date: 10 Aug 04 - 11:35 AM My son's Boy Scout troop avoided the redundancy by singing From the washer, To the dryer, to the bureau, To my rear. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Rabbi-Sol Date: 10 Aug 04 - 04:11 PM Thank you Cool Beans for bringing back the memories. Those were the good old days when teachers still used to hit their students for mis-behaving in class. I may have forgotten the words, but I never forgot the beating I took for singing them back then. SOL ZELLER |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: GUEST,dustyrose Date: 12 Apr 05 - 01:25 PM In the song Teacher teacher I declare, I see ---- underwear, might be pink, might be blue That is all I know and its driving me crazy to find out the rest of that song. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: frogprince Date: 12 Apr 05 - 01:52 PM In Minnesota, about 1952, it went like this: God Bless my underwear, my only pair; When I wore them, I tore them, in the seat of the Old Rocking Chair; From the Bottom, to the middle, from the middle, to the top; God Bless my underwear, my only pair, God Bless my underwear, my oon - leee pair. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Apr 05 - 02:42 PM Thanks to you all! ~S~ |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Charley Noble Date: 12 Apr 05 - 06:33 PM From "Frederick's of Woolloomooloo": When it comes to underwire underwater underwear, Just send a check to Freddy's, and get your gal a pair! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Splott Man Date: 13 Apr 05 - 03:33 AM Be I Barnstaple, be I buggery, I comes up from Wareham. That's where the girls wear calico drawers And I knows how to tear 'em. Benny Hill (of course) |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Azizi Date: 13 Apr 05 - 06:19 PM I was interested to read Big Jim from Jackson's post from 09 Aug 04 - 09:57AM about Tonto saying the "Lone Ranger buy me 'nother pair!" In the mid 1990's in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area I collected what appears a current version of that Lone Ranger rhyme: Batman & Robin flyin in the air Batman lost his underwear Batman said "Me don't care. Robin'll buy me another pair. This rhyme still appears to recited with no accompanying motions. I'm not sure if the children get that this rhyme supports the rumored homosexual relationship between Batman and Robin. Maybe I'm jsut reading that inference into this children's rhyme. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Azizi Date: 28 Jun 05 - 06:51 PM Way back in April 2005 Guest dustyrose wrote that she {he?} was going crazy trying to remember the rest of this rhyme: "Teacher teacher I declare, I see ---- underwear, might be pink, might be blue" -snip- Maybe it's the name "dusty", but this line popped in my head when I finished reading that post: "might be dirty just like you". I vaguely remember "Teacher, Teacher I declare" from my childhood in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the 1950s. Could this be the forgotten line or is this an example of the folk process at work? I haven't a clue.. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Jun 05 - 07:31 PM Then there is Fred Small's "Long Underwear" song with the great line, as I recall, about if you think removing underwear is nice, just think of the satisfaction you'll get by removing it twice! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: JennyO Date: 29 Jun 05 - 08:54 AM Here's one: Bedlam Boys (just the chorus) Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys, Bedlam boys are bonny, For they all go bare and they live by the air, And they want no drink or money. |
Subject: Lyr Add: A BEGGIN' I WILL GO From: JennyO Date: 29 Jun 05 - 09:26 AM And another one (for the line "me backside can go bare"): A BEGGIN' I WILL GO - [Trad. arr. Martin Carthy / Dave Swarbrick] Of all the trades in England the beggin' is the best For when a beggar's tired, he can lay him down and rest Chorus (after each verse): And a-beggin' I will go And a-beggin' I will go I've a pocket for me oatmeal and another for me salt I've a pair of little crutches tha should see how I can halt There's patches on me fusty coat and a black patch on me eye But when it comes to tuppenny ale I can see as well as thee Me britches they are no but holes but me heart is free of care As long as I've me belly full me backside can go bare I've been deaf at Duckinfield and I've been blind at Shaw And many's the reet and willing lass I've bedded in the straw There's a bed for me where'er I lie and I don't pay no rent I've got no noisy looms to mind and I am reet content I can rest when I am tired and I heed no master's bell Ya men'd be daft to be a king when beggars live so well Of all the trades in England the beggin' is the best For when a beggar's tired, he can lay him down and rest |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Paul Burke Date: 30 Jun 05 - 07:35 AM Those afflicted by this sad loss should say a prayer to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost cossies. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Azizi Date: 10 Dec 05 - 09:59 AM I found these two rhymes on THIS wonderful thread of children's rhymes: "Here are some of my memories from summer camp which I didn't see here: Oh I wear my pink pajamas In the summer when it's hot And I wear my flannel nightie In the winter when it's not And sometimes in the spring And sometimes in the fall I jump between the sheets With nothing on at all Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep With nothing on at all and, to the tune of "God Bless America": God bless my underwear My only pair Stand beside them And guide them Through the wear and the tear of the wash From the washer To the dryer To the clothesline In the air God bless my underwear My only pair Kind of tame compared to Miss Susie, but apparently of some historical interest. One I never thought I'd forget but seem to have done just that is that school song to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic; can't remember if it was celebrating the last day of school or promoting arson or something even more malevolent. Oh well; sometimes senior moments suck donkey droppings." posted by Pushing Forty at April 9, 2004 [re-posted with permission from that site's members] |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: GUEST,Rachel Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:33 PM Another underwear song: to the tune of the first verse of "dixie land" I wish i had underwear made of cotton! All my wool ones are itchy and rotten! Look away! Look away! Look away! Let me scratch! I cant belive i still remember that... |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: GUEST,thurg Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:43 PM sinsull says: I see London I see France I see ________'s underpants! The ultimate putdown among the 5 year old set in 19..... I hate to encourage this type of filth, but, for the use of scholars only, I have to add the next verse: Not too big, Not too small, Just the size of Montreal! |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 08 Oct 06 - 08:48 PM Azizi gave us this chorus: Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep With nothing on at all The way I learned a chorus to that song was: Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, what's it to ya? Glory, glory, wind blows through ya When you jump right in between the sheets With nothing on at all I might add that in my misspent youth in Minnesota we always sang that song with a burlesque Scandihoovian accent. Thus, that chorus was sung like this: Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, vhat's it to ya? Glory, glory, vind blows t'rough ya Vhen you yoomp right in betveen da sheets Vit nutting on at all! Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: kids' song: I have lost my underwear From: Rowan Date: 08 Oct 06 - 11:36 PM And the last line of Dave's chorus was often sung "when she jumped between the lilywhite sheets with nothing on at all" Although I dare say several parodies have the same construction. And, speaking of underwear, although it wasn't a chidren's song where I lived when I was a child (before I became a Child fan) there's Woad in the DT. Cheers, Rowan |
Subject: RE: kids' song: I have lost my underwear From: Susan of DT Date: 09 Oct 06 - 07:28 AM From Brooklyn in the 1950s, an expansion of two of the above postings: I see London I see France I see ____'s underpants Are they white? Are they pink? I don't know But they sure stink |
Subject: RE: kids' song: I have lost my underwear From: Mo the caller Date: 09 Oct 06 - 08:05 AM I was walking on the beach yesterday and we were wondering about a pair of lost knickers in the sand dunes (the theory was someone changed after paddling and forgot to take them home). It brought to mind the Susie chant which my daughter heard at secondary school (so in the 80's). She claimed there were no actions or clapping done to it. A friend of mine was shocked to hear her 5 year old grand daughter recite it (early 90s I think). Ooo ah, got no bra Left my knickers in my boyfriends car. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: GUEST,omg Date: 19 Dec 06 - 10:23 PM THAT WAS REALLY DUMB. Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, Three bags full; One for the master, And one for the dame, And one for the little boy Who lives down the lane THATS ALL I REMBER WHEN I WAS AN CHILD!!! |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: catspaw49 Date: 19 Dec 06 - 10:29 PM This thread was obviously refreshed for the benefit of Brittney Spears................ Spaw |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Deckman Date: 19 Dec 06 - 11:18 PM Let's NOT forget this gem: "I Underwear My Baby Is Now?" (O.K. ... I'll looks for my hat)! Bob |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Georgiansilver Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:19 AM To the tune (probably obvious) of "The Tigger Song" Ohhhhh The wonderful thing about knickers, Is knickers are wonderful things. The gussets are made out of cotton, The sides are made out of strings. They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy,pouncy, Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun. The most wonderful thing about knickers is, They cover up your bum. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Scrump Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:58 AM It was probably Arnold Layne :-) |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Azizi Date: 20 Dec 06 - 02:12 PM Uncle_DaveO, I just read that you wrote in your 08 Oct 06 - 08:48 PM post that "Azizi gave us this chorus: Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep With nothing on at all" -snip- For the record, I was quoting from a Octoblog poster who used the screen name "Pushing Forty". It's been a while since I was pushing forty. And I'm much too modest a person to reveal on a public forum whether I think that sleeping with nothing on at all is a glorious, wonderful way to sleep. ;o} |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: melodeonboy Date: 20 Dec 06 - 07:51 PM This thread is pants! |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: melodeonboy Date: 20 Dec 06 - 07:52 PM Only joking! I'm enjoying it. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Murray on Saltspring Date: 21 Dec 06 - 08:35 PM A variation of this gives the coy verse Oh Sir Jasper, do not touch me Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me, As she slipped between the sheets with nothing on at all. Tune is the chorus of 'John Brown's Body', of course; and the joke [such as it is] consists in the omission of the last word of the first 3 lines, then the two last words, and so on, till you get "Oh Sir Jasper!", "Oh Sir!" and finally "Oh!" |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: GUEST Date: 03 Apr 08 - 12:27 AM "I have lost my underwear" was a song made up by David Graham of Christchurch New Zealand in the 1970s, to the tune of "Bye bye blackbird". The version given here is probably distantly derived from it, as there are lines that don't make sense here, but did make sense originally. It went - I have lost my underwear, I don't care, I'll go bare. Bye bye, long johns. [You were always close to me], tickled me, tee hee hee! Bye bye, long johns. How I loved that little trapdoor behind me, You all knew exactly where to find me. I have lost my underwear, I don't care, I'll go bare. Long johns, bye bye. Not a hundred percent sure of the bit in square brackets, but think it's right. pelliondance |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: John MacKenzie Date: 03 Apr 08 - 04:11 AM Underwear is for wimps |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Megan L Date: 03 Apr 08 - 05:23 AM What is that rock doing in the corner and wheres foolstroupe thought he wis in here somewhere? |
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