Lyr Req: Bawdy Irish song with missing words

Subject: Lyr Req: Bawdy Irish song with omitted words
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 07:20 AM

Hi, I seem to recall there being a bawdy Irish song, where at the end of each stanza the line is supposed to end with a dirty word. Instead, the song abruptly transitions straight into the next stanza, letting the listener simply imagine that word (which is pretty obvious from the rhyme scheme!)

Can anyone tell me what the name / lyrics of this song might be?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy Irish song with missing words
From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 09:43 AM

There are many songs with that structure. Can you give us one or two of the stanzas?

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy Irish song with missing words
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 11:41 AM

You possibly mean "Sweet Violets", which is American, not Irish.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy Irish song with missing words
From: EBarnacle
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 05:19 PM

Or the Clean Song, in which rhyming words are substituted for the actual word. See Oscar Brand's "Bawdy Songs and Back room Ballads" and "Roll Me Over." There are many other sources.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy Irish song with missing words
From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 06:15 PM

Or "My husbands a (***)..."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy Irish song with missing words
From: Brakn
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 06:45 PM

The Thatcher Song?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy Irish song with missing words
From: Brakn
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 06:48 PM

Maggie Thatcher you can't match her she's the darling of us all
She's the curse of the Irish Nation Fine Gael and Fianna Fail
She's destroyed me hire purchase and she's put me on the dole
If I could only get my hands on her I'd kick her up the-----

Good onya Mrs Thatcher you're the cutest girl of all
such a biddy fine and buxom sure the likes you'll not recall
when she holds negotiations things they always reach a hitch
she's the world in ruination such a schemer the old--------

Good onya Mrs Thatcher no one in this world can match her
but she's trying to take the vote away from the paddies once again**
we're not worried 'bout your English vote nor your politicians gas
you can keep them Mrs Thatcher you can shove them up your----

Help us Mrs Thatcher with the prices rising high
and the work is getting awful scarce paddy's losing that's no lie
now you say that you don't want us that we've stayed here long enough
(now you say that you don't want us that we're really out of luck
but if I were a taxidermist I would tell you to get -------

Fair play Mrs Thatcher sure you know a trick or two
and each time you come to Dublin well we know just what you'll do
you'll dress up in your finery and preach with all your might
but all of your fancy promise's are just a load of-----

We love you Mrs Thatcher like your old man loves his brew
such a lad your husband Denis when he's had a sup or two
sure he'll take a pint of porter and a glass of Irish mist
and because he faces you each night no wonder he gets------

Thatcher you can't match her she's the darling of us all
She's the curse of the Irish Nation Fine Gael and Fianna Fail

Sean Brady song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy Irish song with missing words
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 05:20 AM

There is always the Christmas Gaudete rewrite Gaudy Tree