Lyr Req: platex song

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: platex song
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 19 Aug 13 - 03:43 PM

As with Playtex, you might have to be "of a certain age" to understand that, Nigel!
In case Ragman doesn't know about Playtex, here it is!
http://www.playtex.co.uk/collection/corsetry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: platex song
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Aug 13 - 04:31 AM

Or, with apologies to Bryan Hyland:

She was ashamed to come down from her bedroom.
She was afraid that her father would laugh.
She was afraid of the taunts in the classroom
For her new bra, size A (less a half!)

It was an over-shoulder-boulder-holder
That she wore for the first time today.
An over-shoulder-boulder-holder,
And in her bedroom she wanted to stay.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: platex song
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 10:00 AM

No problem. It's difficult at times to wend one's way around Mudcat and I thought you'd like the lyrics. Thank you for requesting the lyrics. I've never seen them before and it gave me a good chuckle.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: platex song
From: GUEST,ragman
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 09:08 AM

Thanks that's the very song, sorry for the spelling.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: platex song
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 07:16 AM

Subject: ADD: All Around My Fat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 04:17 PM

Well, yes, it was in the Mudcat Songbook, but I see no reason why it shouldn't be here in the Forum. Micca, do you sing this one, too?
-Joe Offer-

All Around My Fat
Lyrics by: Penny Ward (submitted by Micca)
Tune: All around my hat (Traditional)

Chorus:
All around my fat
I will wear the Playtex Girdle
And all around my fat
For an evening and a day
And if anyone should ask me
The reason why I'm wearing it
It's all for my true love
Who thinks I'm built this way

Verse 1
Take half a pound of talcum
And a small jar of Vaseline
A shoehorn comes in handy
It's the biggest you've ever seen!
You put it all together
And you will plainly see
I'm a different shape completely
And in abject agony

Chorus

Verse 2

The other night he bought me
A small box of lingerie
All frothy lace and satin
The colour of ivory
I went to change and left him
Anticipating hedony
So much for Janet Reger
I can't get them past my knees!

Chorus

Verse3

Fare the well Weight Watchers
And fare the well the step class
Three stone have I gained
And my waistline I have lost
I'll eat and I'll be merry
Dispense with guilt and calories
I'll stuff the sodding 'F' plan
It's a fry up for me tea!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: platex song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 02:49 AM

I learned it from Micca. Does that surprise anyone???

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: platex song
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 17 Aug 13 - 08:57 PM

Do you mean Playtex? As in:
All around my fat, I will wear the Playtex girdle.

It's somewhere on this site if not in the DT, and is a sort of parody of All Around My Hat
Just put "All around my fat" in the search box.

Subject: Lyr Req: platex song
From: GUEST,ragman
Date: 17 Aug 13 - 11:30 AM

is it possible to get the lyrics to the Platex song ,heard in the middle bar Sidmouth this year? also the tune it was sung to.
thank you.
Ragman