Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'

Subject: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: GUEST,Jenny
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 01:41 PM

Having discovered this forum when searching for the Pyramids monologue to check I had it right ... and being the only one with at least some idea of the words and posted it ... well I'm hoping I have more luck with answers for this request! I can't recall the title (or the originator), but it's a song that's a little similar in style to 4 Night's Drunk. In this version the unfaithful wife is having it off with her lover when her hubby returns home unexpectedly. The lover hops into the wardrobe but unfortunately traps parts of his anatomy outside between the doors. Hubby spots them and wife tries to explain them away as bells that her mother sent to her. So hubby gives them a prod but the bells don't ring. So then he pokes and prods some more, but still the bells don't ring! I think he ends up squeezing them and the punchline goes
"And the bloke inside the wardrobe says "Fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!" Stan Hastings used to sing it in Perth WA at the Stables folk club but sadly he died many years ago. Anyone know it? I'd be grateful for the words and I could use re-exposure to the tune too!
Thanks in anticipation!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: GUEST,martin ellison
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 01:45 PM

That's "The Ballad of Knocking Nellie" written and performed by Bernard Wrigley on the 70's album "The Penomenal B Wrigley".

Can't give you all the words but this may prompt someone's memory.

Cheers
Martin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: GUEST,martin ellison
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 01:46 PM

Yes - that should have "pHenomenal"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 01:56 PM

Ye gods! A sweetfaced little girl with dimples told me that as a joke way back when I was in high school (around the late 1940s)!!

Except that it was a Sven and Oly joke and the guy in the wardrobe was Norwegian. The husband pokes the aparatus a couple of times and nothing happens, so he takes a swipe with a tennis racket. The punch line was, "Yeesus Christ, yingle yangle!!!"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: GUEST,Jenny the OP!
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 02:09 PM

Thank you so much Martin ... and while it may not have come up in Google ... there's actually a thread in this forum with the lyrics! So much easier once you have a title! I just about had the story right, not bad for at least 20 years since having heard it ...

Regards
Jenny

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 02:24 PM

and the thread alluded to is This one

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–One of the JoeClones

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 09:17 PM

Yeah, I heard that joke when I was in fourth or fifth grade, which would have been about 1956-57—only the man was hiding in a chandelier, which didn't seem plausible to me even then—and the punch line was, "Ding dong, you bastard." It was one of the first "dirty" jokes I ever heard.

As a joke, it would seem embarrassingly childish to me now, but as a song, it isn't bad.

I put a link to THE KNOCKING NELLY TRILOGY in the thread called "Jokes turned into songs."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 09:36 PM

I think the Norwegian accent was what made the joke when the sweet young thing told it to me way back.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 12:31 PM

In Minnesota, back in the mid 1940s, the punch line was "Yimminy Christmas, Yingle, Yingle!"

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'fer Christ's sake, ding ding dong!'
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 03:58 PM

Yeah, back in the 1940s when I was in high school, there were a fair number of immigrants from Minnesota around here. Pretty close.

Don Firth