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Lyr Req: The Barking Creek Bell-Ringer's Daughter |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Search for octopus and flagellation song From: GUEST,David Date: 03 Apr 07 - 01:20 PM Poem performed and recorded by poet William Bealby-Wright (Barrow Poets) of Isle of Man Possibly written by Paddy Roberts, although I have seen it attributed to Anon The Barking Creek Bell Ringers bell it was rung When the fog hung down thick on the water but its not over Barking Creek Bell my songs sung But the Barking Creek Bell Ringers daughter ..The octopus turned inside out with a gulp But Snout became even distraugher And he sliced them all up, and he beat to a pulp the barking Creek Bell Ringers daughter it goes on forever! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Search for octopus and flagellation song From: SouthernCelt Date: 03 Apr 07 - 03:51 PM I tried to find the lyrics to "Mrs. Ravoon" in the db but got no result. I realize the message that referred to it being there was posted ten years ago, but I didn't realize anything ever disappeared from the db. I didn't read every message here so did I miss something along the way? SC |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Search for octopus and flagellation song From: Bill D Date: 03 Apr 07 - 04:04 PM dunno where you looked, but a DB search on "Ravoon" gives..this |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Search for octopus and flagellation song From: SouthernCelt Date: 03 Apr 07 - 07:06 PM Thanks, BillD. I tried searching the DT for "Mrs. Ravoon" and I get no hits. If you search for "Ravoon" though you do get it. Is there something about multiple words or abbreviations not being searchable? SC |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Search for octopus and flagellation song From: Bill D Date: 03 Apr 07 - 10:00 PM hmmm...you got me. I don't know what multiple terms do, but it sure doesn't work on "Mrs. Ravoon" Mrs. Ravoon Mrs Ravoon but does on Ravoon. I 'usually' keep searches to the simplest form I can, just to be safe. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BARKING CREEK BELL-RINGER'S DAUGHTER From: GUEST,Fantum Date: 19 Jul 10 - 12:51 PM Here is a set of words with the requisite form. Bit late but I have just found the thread. I have it as a poem and I got it from the monologue site Make 'em laugh. Sadly I have no author but thrice blessed may he be. BARKING CREEK BELL-RINGER'S DAUGHTER The Barking Creek bell-ringer's bell it gets rung When the fog lies thick on the water, Though it's not of the Barking Creek bell my song's sung But of the Barking Creek bell-ringer's daughter. Now she was so lovely, so fair and so squat That conductors fell off of their buses As she walked down Cable Street bearing on top Her bath full of live octopuses. And all down her back from shoulder to thigh Their tentacles hung down in tresses, As sweetly she'd sing, "Won't you cough up and buy My octopus, live octopuses?" Now one day in August the sunshine was spread On her wares that she proudly was bearing, And the blowflies all glittered and buzzed round her head Like the halos that angels are wearing. As on the embankment her stock she laid out In that far from salubrious quarter, She aroused the wild passions of Algernon Stout An unemployed Billingsgate porter. Now Stout was a villain who wallowed in crime Who lived under some derelict barges And the day being hot, was laid out on the slime Where the Barking Creek sewer discharges. He crouched on the crust as the maiden drew nigh Her petticoats all of a-splatter. He licked his fat lips then, suddenly, like A wild rhino-sore-arse, flew at her. His head hit her first in a cloud of black dust And the bath took off like a rocket They crumpled and crashed till they broke through the crust To the mud underneath which was clotted. She pushed a large handful all slimy and green Down his gob like a mouthful of jelly, Then the bath full of octopus fell on the scene Upside down on top of the melee. Beneath it they struggled but Stout never knew The danger to which he was liable. An octopus, slyly, did stealthily glue Its sucker upon his left eyeball. Now vainly Stout struggled to loosen its grip And attempted the monster to throttle, When his eye came away with a pop and rip With the sound like a cork from a bottle. When Algernon spied he was only one-eyed He was filled with distraught irritation, And grabbed the poor octopus by its inside As a weapon of flag-e-olation. The octopus turned inside out with a gulp As Stout's actions got even distraughter. He sliced them all up and beat to a pulp The Barking Creek bell-ringer's daughter. Now there's some literati what's going to complain That a moral should here be appended, Whilst others, as surely, will loudly maintain That it's high time the bloody thing ended. But all you bum critics take notice from me If you're of the feminine gender, That in Barking today, there's a vacancy For a lady-like octopus vendor. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Search for octopus and flagellation song From: Aeola Date: 19 Jul 10 - 02:55 PM Just flicking thru' and saw this thread. I learnt this monologue many years ago, having heard it on the radio but could never find the origin.So thanks -- I can chase up a few links, you never know!! |
Subject: RE: Algenon Pide? From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Aug 11 - 02:02 AM The song (recitation, actually) is THE BARKING CREEK BELL-RINGER'S DAUGHTER and the text has been posted here. It has to be the right one because it mentions "octopuses" and "flag-e-olation." There is a character named Algernon in it, but his last name is Stout. I have no idea where "Pide" comes from. |
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