Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?

Subject: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From:
Date: 25 Jun 98 - 02:01 AM

Hi. Does anyone have any rude?dirty lyrics to any well known folk tune? If so, please foreward them to:

[e-mail]

Thank you for your help.

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From:
Date: 25 Jun 98 - 03:35 AM

I expect you'll be inundated with stuff, tho I must admit I would have thought Australia already had enough rude things going around. We've had a number on this Forum, and I suppose if you browse long enough you'll find them, There's a lot on the Digital Tradition database: look for "bawdy", I expect [right, Max?]-- I'll probably be in touch emailwise personally, though, since I've got quite a few of these unconsidered trifles in my luggage. Murray.

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From:
Date: 25 Jun 98 - 08:58 AM

Well, I don't know how well-known the tunes are, but they're certainly well-known enough to raise a groan of protest (and maybe a few daggers flying in your direction) if you were to sing "The Ball of Ballynore" or "Roll Your Leg Over" at a Renaissance Festival. If you'd like some of the lyrics, EMail me privately. They're the type of song where there are about 50 verses that everyone knows, and a bunch that are native to each Faire. :)

Sla/n, Kiwi

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Bo
Date: 25 Jun 98 - 11:27 AM

Why dont you folks post them to the forum? With a thread heading like this anyone who is offended can easily ignore the songs and those that are interested can listen in. I always imagine that every private Emailed song is a perfect jem, and I wont get to see it. :(

bo

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Bert
Date: 25 Jun 98 - 03:15 PM

Murray is right. Search for @bawdy. DT has a fabulous collection, all you could wish for.

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Chet W.
Date: 25 Jun 98 - 07:43 PM

I have often included virtual objectionable lines in traditional songs. For example, from the Yellow Rose of Texas: O, I sure will be happy when I get to that place, So the Yellow Rose of Texas can sit down on my lap. It doesn't rhyme, some people get the joke and enjoy it, and others have nothing to complain about.

Chet W.

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From:
Date: 26 Jun 98 - 04:13 AM

I seem to remember folks complaining about the inclusion of unseemly things on a forum that could be accessed by the impressionable. Which includes children, I suppose; but they'll be drawn by a "bawdy" heading anyway-- and if I remember rightly, Bo you yourself said you wouldn't want to see filth for filth's sake. From my own point of view, these are perfectly valid folksongs, and so worth my study. I do admit some of them are a bit manky (to coin a Scoticism) but then, I've been trying to save these orphans for a long time, and have compiled me a collection called <>, which sounds rather pretentious, I admit. Anyway, if folk agree to take it or leave it, so to speak, then I'll post some things here. NB!! As I've pointed out before (and as Dick has himself protested) the DT database is not perfect, and should not be assumed to be 100% accurate--either in spelling, wording, or anything else. So caveat emptor, or something. When I get back to this thread I'll post some stuff. Cheers [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Lorraine
Date: 26 Jun 98 - 07:11 AM

I'd vote to post them and let the reader beware!

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Doctor John
Date: 26 Jun 98 - 09:18 AM

Oscar Brandt and Ed McCurdy have recorded several albums but I guess they're hard to obtain now. What about the other way round? Woody Guthrie wrote "Union Maid" to the bawdy "Redwing"!

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From:
Date: 26 Jun 98 - 05:14 PM

Bo,

Done deal. I'll be back later to post the lyrics to the forum. Oh, and by the way, "The Ball of Ballynore" is essentially the same as "The Gathering of the Clans", but with a bunch of different verse, mostly Renaissance Festival oriented. So beware, all ye Faire-goers!

Sla/n, Kiwi

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From:
Date: 27 Jun 98 - 02:32 AM

Please, please, folks, it really bothers my pedantic old soul when you talk about "The Ball of Ballynoor" or "The Gathering of the Clans" etc. etc. The original is a bawdy Scots song, "The Ball of Kirriemuir", which is a real place in the east of the country. If anyone wants chapter and verse and background and all that, let me know. These other titles are often the result of some catchpenny rogue putting the thing into a book and deliberately changing the title (and the words, not to mention fiddling with the tune) so as to be "original", complete with royalties. Case in point: our Canadian balladeer, Oscar Brand. Cheers [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Kiwi
Date: 27 Jun 98 - 07:18 AM

Terribly sorry, Murray. That one slipped my mind, and I should know better, because I SAW the lyrics to "The Ball of Kerremuir" last year and even sang a few of them. But again, it's a spinoff of said song, with different verses.

Sla/n, Kiwi

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From:
Date: 28 Jun 98 - 02:46 AM

It might be an idea to maintain this particular thread for talking about the whys & wherefores, theory if you like, and start new threads for entry of the various songs. I suppose that's in folks' minds anyway. See the new thread on "The Ball of Ballynure" (ugh!). But Brad's query also has to do with bawdy words to perfectly innocent tunes. Parodies, most like, but some probably original (in the sense of being an independent poem fitted to the tune). In fact, somewhere I'm sure I've heard a smutty masterpiece to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda". Is my memory correct here??

Subject: Lyr Add: BLACK EYED SUZIE
From: Frank in the swamps
Date: 28 Jun 98 - 06:57 AM

I'm blasting the forum with a pretty comprehensive volley of The Holy Modal Rounders this morning, 'cuz it all seems to fit. This is what I remember of their rendition of "Black Eyed Suzie.” I don't have a turntable, so I can't check the old vinyl discs, but here goes...

My pretty little Suzie's just half grown,
Jumps on a man like a dog on a bone,

[CHORUS] Hey, black-eyed Suzie, hey, pretty little black-eyed Suzie,
Hey, black-eyed Suzie, Hey.

I gave your little brother a big silver dollar.
If he sees your daddy comin' he'll let out a holler. [CHOR.]

Your momma she's gonna tan your hide.
Your daddy's gonna hunt me, dead or alive. [CHOR.]

Now comes the real dirty verse. If you've never heard this recording, it's hard to describe how funny it really is. On the printed page (or monitor) it looks simply puerile, but it is sung so that it sounds like all nonsense syllables. I had this record for years before it hit me what they were saying....

TheonlythingIliketodobetterthanmydoodlingispokemyheadbetweenherlegsanddoalittleyodeling.

Hey, black-eyed Suzie, Hey, pretty little black-eyed Suzie,
Hey, black-eyed Suzie, Hey!

Frank i.t.s.

HTML line breaks added in place of double spacing. --JoeClone, 22-Mar-02.

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From:
Date: 30 Jun 98 - 11:22 PM

The Holy Modal Rounders had whole BUNCHES of dirty parodies, some of which they recorded & some of which are only passed down through oral tradition.

Does anybody know their extra verse to Poole's Baltimore Fire?

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: GUEST,lydiate-native
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 04:38 PM

Theres a tune that goes something like It was on the good ship Venus .By Christ you should have seenus. The figure head was a whore in bed .the mast was a rampant >>>>>> Theres a lot more which I cant print. Theres another one The North Atlantic Squadron but I have forgotten most of the words

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Genie
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 04:52 PM

I think this is fixin' to be a L-O-N-G thread!

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Amos
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 04:55 PM

The Good Ship Venus is the archetype of dirty songs sung in high school lunchlines and locker-rooms. Well, once was, anyway. Now they do the Barney song, I guess.

A

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 05:05 PM

"Joe, I Heard You Been Laying My Old Lady" was done in the 70's by James Lee Stanley. If the title intrigues you, let me know, and I'll drag it out and throw it on the turn table, make a tape and send it to you. Bobert

Subject: Lyr Add: IN THE SHADE OF THE OLD MODEL T
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 05:47 PM

Well, since someone else has broken the ice, here's a dirty song I learned in about 9th grade. I don't think I've ever sung it aloud--and CERTAINLY not in public!

IN THE SHADE OF THE OLD MODEL T

In the shade of the old Model T
That is where she first showed it to me
A little brown spot
She called it her twat
But it looked like a manhole to me!
Well, I pulled out my old Duke of York
And it fitted her just like a cork
She wiggled and screamed
As I shot her the cream
In the shade of the old Model T.

DRO

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: GUEST,hilary,not logged in
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 05:47 PM

I've heard more verse to 'Maid when you're young never wed an old man', than is listed in the DT. I'm sure legover came into it somewhere. Does anybody know the one ????

Hilary

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 05:57 PM

REDWING was a pop song before the bawdy version. And speaking of Woody, he had a verse to BLACK EYED SUSIE that went something like; Backed her up against the wall Here I come balls and all.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Gareth
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 06:46 PM

If your youth missed out on playing Rugby - A game played by men with funny shaped balls.

Try Here
or Here
or try putting "rugby" in the forum search.

Gareth

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 07:12 PM

I threw my leg over him
Hey ding doorum-da
I threw my leg over him
Me being young
I threw my leg over him
Damn well near smothered him
Maids, when you're young never wed an old man

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: Any rude/dirty lyrics to any folk tunes?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 07:25 PM

No need for parody - just listen The Cuckoos' Nest or The Bonny Black Hare to get enough bawdy stuff to last a lifetime! Mind you, I've always said, in Folk music, if you can understand the words it's about death - if you can't it's about sex!!!

Cheers

DtG