Rambling Syd Rumpo

Subject: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Stu
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 05:12 AM

Does anyone know of an online repository of Rambling Syd's Lyrics. I'll woggle me moulies in appreciation if anyone could let me know.

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 05:25 AM

Well try these from a google search on Ramblin Sid Rumpo Lyrics:

Here

AND HERE
RtS (manifestin' 'imself alongside the bacon counter)

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 05:33 AM

That was about all I could find too Skiff and I also searched under "Kenneth Williams lyrics Rumpo"....Doesn't seem to be any composite lyrics site though.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 05:39 AM

Same site also has
THIS
and
THIS

Still that's a total of four to be going on with.
RtS

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: GUEST,micca at work
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 06:57 AM

There was a BBC double casette done and issued a coupla years ago,that contained the entire Opus, may be still available, and (thanks to KW's clear enunciation) the lyrics should be easy to obtain therefrom, if you have difficulty finding it I have a copy

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Noreen
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 07:06 AM

Look up a previous thread on Kenneth Williams for more on Rambling Syd.

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 10:00 AM

The double cassette is readily available from HMV in the Humour section

"now a troth is a cross between a toad and a sloth....."

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 12:09 PM

If anyone has accidentally stumbled in here (I know, not much chance of that) and doesn't know anything about the songs of Ramblin' Sid, do yourself a favour and check him out. Whether you are a trad folk afficianado, or just love brilliant humour, you'll be well rewarded. He's worth ten "Oh Brothers.."

Rick

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: GUEST,Scrote
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 02:36 PM

Given his entendres it's rather appropriate that the songs are on a double cassette.

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Stu
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 06:05 AM

I've got the double cassette and think I may transcribe the lyrics - I think they'd make for good light relief during a session. I'll also do the Barron Knight's 'Hand on Ear Folk Song' - I classic I fear will be lost to the tradition if it's not saved soon.

Thank all! - I'm off to nurdle me splod now.

stigWeard

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 12:43 PM

OK my grey matter is failing, I vaguely remember Sid being on a radio show. I think it may have been "Round the Horne", anyone with more grey cells out there? I remember the song "What shall we do with a drunken nurker, What shall we do with a drunken nurker, What shall we do with a drunken nurker, earlie in the mornin. Hit him in the nadgers with a bosun's scrumock etc. JohnB

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Cappuccino
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 03:35 PM

Yes, it was Round the Horne, surely. Incredible that people like Kenneth Williams and the other guy (the other half of the Julian and Sandy sketches) got away with such camp humour.

But in those days, we kids didn't realist it * was * camp.

- Ian B

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: CraigS
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 06:02 PM

Those interested in the strange slang spoken by Sandy and Julian may like to know that it is called Polari, and that there were both east and west london variants. There's meaning in moolies!

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 06:22 PM

The cassette is still available. I got it a few months ago. Ordered it from Amazon - I'm sure if there was enough demand the good peeps here would order a few for sale!

Yesss me deerios...

Cheers

DtG
Whose nadgers were nurgled many a year ago

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Jeanie
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 08:14 PM

Hello, me dearios, now what have I got in me ole gander bag for you this evening ? Why, girdle your grummits, rollock your fussits, tether your nadgers by the old mill stream ... it's:

BBC Radio Collection Rambling Syd Rumpo ZBBC 1746 ISBN 0 - 563 - 38900 - 1

There be forty warbles in all, amongst those likely to tug at your artefacts, being "The Runcorn Spod Cobbler's Song", "The Ballad of the Woggler's Mooly", "The Highland Lament of the Turve Croppers", "The Taddle Gropers' Dance".

So charge your possets with the foaming brown mess at the good tidings that Rambling Syd lives on, readily available at WH Smith (where I stuffed me gander bag to bursting with his warbling ditties some mere twelve months since) and similar emporia.

**** Craig S : Bona to bada your dolly old eke !

Jeanie

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Cappuccino
Date: 01 Dec 01 - 03:31 AM

Ah yes, 'bona'.

Craig, is there more in translation to that than meets the eye? I've always suspected a camp second meaning.

- Ian B

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Greyeyes
Date: 01 Dec 01 - 07:30 AM

Some good rambling here.

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: The Walrus
Date: 01 Dec 01 - 07:44 AM

If anyone is interested, there is a polari dictionary (of sorts) availabe at: http://members.aol.com/frij/polglos.html
(Sorry, I can't do blickies)

Regards

Walrus

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Gareth
Date: 01 Dec 01 - 01:57 PM

Re Walrus's post

CLICK 'ERE

Gareth

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Dec 01 - 04:51 AM

Round the Horn?
what about Beyond our Ken?
were'nt the most of the team in both shows?
I can't remember that much detail to be sure.

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: pavane
Date: 02 Dec 01 - 05:05 AM

Rambling Sid was Round the Horne, but yes, the cast were mostly from Beyond Our Ken. The origin of Rambling Sid was supposed to have been script writer Marty Feldman's intense dislike of folk music. Hugh Paddick was the other half of Sandy & Julian. (He appeared in one episode of Blackadder, as an ageing Thesbian.)

PS Re Polari - The word Camp is supposed to be of Polari origin. I thought it was Vader your eke (Ec = Ecaf = backslang for face. Also the origin of YOB is backslang for BOY!)

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: The Walrus
Date: 02 Dec 01 - 06:45 AM

Gareth,

Thanks for the blicky.

Walrus

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 01 - 02:32 PM

I am still laughing, thanks to all of you, what great memories of a very funny man. Kenneth Williams there was none better. Sam the Swede.

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: AliUK
Date: 02 Dec 01 - 10:08 PM

The world lost a great comic actor when Kenneth Williams died, and it was a shame that his career ended with bad carry on movies ( they were ok up until the seventies) and Will O the Wisp. I remember a friend of mine who had recorded a heap load of Beyond our Ken and Around the Horne on an old reel to reel recorder and was painstakingly transferring them to cassette tape, he was kind enough and brave enough to lend me a load once, and I spent many happy hours chortling away in my bedroom until the early hours of the morning.

Subject: RE: Rambling Syd Rumpo
From: The Walrus
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 06:15 PM

Having found a book with a few "Round the Horne" scripts (and the "Rambling Syd Rumpo Songbook") I couln't resist adding a few to the list already in tthis thread.

(To the tune "Foggy Foggy Dew")

When I was a young man
I nadgered my snod
as I worked at the wogglers trade.
When suddenly I thought
while trussing up my groats,
I'd whirdle with a fair young maid.
We whirdled in the summer time
until the winter came,
and the only thing that I ever did wrong
was to tell her my foggy foggy name.

Now we are married
and I've put away my snod
and my son's at the the woggler's trade.
Though I still think
as I'm trussing up my groats
of whirdling with a fair young maid.
I'd whirdle her in the winter time
I'd whirdle her for dear life -
But the only only thing that I'd have to do
Is to keep it from the foggy foggy wife - Oh !


(To the tune of "Lincolnshire Poacher")

When I was a clecher's bogle man
In famous Lincoln Town,
I'd often clenched my bogling fork
For less than half-a-crown.
And I would joggle and nurk my boys
As quickly I shall tell,
Oh 'tis my delight on a shining night
And a foggy night as well.

Oh once I took my moulies
And I set them in a snare.
Twas then I spied a scropers man
A'whirdling a hare.
But I was not afeared my boys
Of that there is no doubt.
Oh tis my delight on a shining night
When the coppers aren't about.

Although I'm over eighty now
My bogle I still clench
And I will flutter my artifacts
At any passing wench.
I've tickled many a screebling nut
as on my way I go.
Oh tis my delight on a shining night
At just 50p a throw - oooooh !


More later

Walrus