Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit

05 Sep 11 - 02:58 PM (#3218618)
Subject: Origins: Im not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,off old 45' record

Anyone know who sang this song it went like this.

I'm not in the Navy,
a sailor boy I sit.
I got no one to keep me,
so I dont give a
Ships don't sail across the sea,
too far away from shore
I don't wear skirts and girdles,
so you cant call me
Horse and bridle and saddle
thats what I got to sell
if you dont want to buy them
Then you can go to
Helen is my girlfriends name
she drives a Newport truck.
She doesn't drive it very well
but you oughta see her
fumble bumble bumble keeps bumbling with my heart
Every time I eat Navy beans
I always have to
peek around the corner to see what I can see
all that Mama and papa did did did
did you ever meet my wife
you really ought to meet her
she didn't marry me for love all she wanted was
Peter Murphey had a dog a very fine dog was he
he drive his nose up a ladies hose
and drive the smell of her
get away from there naughty dog.

*** that's all I can remember***
This was from an old 45' of my friends Father. I believe from the
50's era. Would love to know artist and name of song.

Thanks
Pep

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05 Sep 11 - 03:16 PM (#3218629)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,999

"A song, i dont know the title,havent heard in 30yrs i need help getting a title and maybe who sings it.?


in the song it has beeps where maybe a curse word should be but isn't, i know the lyrics, i'll put caps where the beep happens---it starts--i'm not in the navy, a sailor boy i sit, i got no one to keep me, but i don't give a SHIP go sailing across the sea, so far away from shore,i don't wear skirts and girdles so you can't call me a HORSE bridle and saddle that what i have to sell, and if you don't want to buy them,then you can go to HELEN is my girlfriends name she drives a new ford truck,well she ain't to good at driving,but you ought to see her FUMBLE,fumble fumble, keep fumbling with my heart, every time i eat navy beans i always have to FORTY dollars i will spend ,here's three more i pass and if you don't want to buy them ,then you can kiss my ASK my girlfriend her name to write down on my list,all that momma and poppa does is stick DICK did you ever meet my wife..........well that's about half way there if you know it by now you shouldn't need the rest. this answer should have bonus point to it its so obscure,i can't find it anywhere,can someone help me here PLEASE!!!!!! "

From Yahoo answers.


Never heard it, but it has more than a few similarities to the song we sang as kids--thought it was real clever and a hoot back then--named Lulu.

I'll go look further.

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05 Sep 11 - 03:17 PM (#3218633)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,999

Cross posted, Joe. Sorry.

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05 Sep 11 - 04:24 PM (#3218652)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: Joe Offer

Well, I think I'll just gloat. It's not often I get there before you, 999.

-Joe-

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05 Sep 11 - 04:36 PM (#3218656)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,999

LOL

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05 Sep 11 - 06:35 PM (#3218707)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

Yes the song did have bleeps for bad words.I thought they sangnever heard of a Newport truck. New Ford truck makes better sense. I'm going to have to have my friend dig through her boxes and find the record.
I forgot about the forty dollars I have spent lyric. Will still search myself.   Thanks

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08 Jan 12 - 11:49 AM (#3287051)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,Cat

My dad use to sing this song. We have a recording of him singing it. The version he sang went like this:

Ships go sailing cross the sea so far away from shore
Now they don't wear skirts and girdles so you can't call them a
Horse and bridle saddle is what I've got to sell.
Now If you don't want to buy them then you can go to
Helen is my girlfriends name, she drives a new Ford truck
She ain't much good at driving but you should see her
Fumble fumble fumble she's fumbling with my heart
Everytime I eat navy beans I always have to
Forty dollars I have to spend, there's three more I pass
If you don't like this game of dice then you can kiss my
Asked my girlfriend her name to write down on the list
Everytime I drink cheap 3/2 I always have to
Peter Murphy had a dog a dirty old dog was he
He loaned it to the neighbor just to keep it company
And all around the house at night that dirty old dog would grunt
He'd run his nose up the lady's clothes and try to smell there
Come away you naughty dog you make my pressure rise.
There's never been a man in this whole wide world who'd lay between her but
I'd like to thank you for the glass of beer I'll drink the damn thing down
You'd better get up old man it's time for another round!

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08 Jan 12 - 02:14 PM (#3287120)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: Charley Noble

I hadn't run across this old nautical ditty.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

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08 Mar 12 - 07:46 PM (#3320212)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

I have been looking for this song for years. My dad came home one day and caught us listening to it and burned it. I asked him and he doesn't even remember the song. Did anyone ever find it?

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22 Jun 12 - 08:49 PM (#3366895)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

Wow, I have been looking for these lyrics for quite some time now. My Dad had this song on a party album a long with other naughty songs. He always wanted another record but I could never find it for him... he has long since passed away but I still look now and again for some of his favorites. If any one can give me a name of who did this song or if they have a "party album" that it was on, I would love any info ya have.

Thanks!!
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22 Jul 12 - 06:54 PM (#3380072)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,dake50

I seem to remember ..
... fumbling with my heart
ON the way to Dallas
Recreated or was this in that song?

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22 Aug 12 - 01:33 PM (#3393670)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,Michigan43

I think my parents still have the record. I will be visiting them in Nov and will see if I can dig it up because I dont remember the name either. I remember listening to it with my brothers.

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26 Sep 12 - 01:42 PM (#3410549)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,Cfozombie

My father used to sing this around the campfire when my brother and I were little. He tought me how to play guitar, but never the chords to this song, so if anybody does find the artist, or maybe if anyone play guitar themselves, could let me know what chords to play something like this. Thank you! Can't believe I finally found a posting on this, my dad died a couple years ago and I haven't found a single mention of the song until now!
Serendipity?

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16 Oct 12 - 10:18 PM (#3421058)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,ree691

OMG My dad owned a Bar (Tavern) in the 60's and they played this on the Juke Box all the time. They always said I had a BarRoom mouth. Wonder Why? LOL

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15 Dec 12 - 09:35 PM (#3452534)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

I have it on a 78 RPM single, titled The Beep Beep Song. It's a plain blue label with no label name, no writers' credit and no artist name. Just the song title, and nothing else. The flip side is Excuse Me, Please, a play on the familiar "I knew an old cowboy from Kent...." saga. I bought it in a collectors shop in the early 1970s. The shop owner speculated that it was from the late 1930s, but he wasn't sure, either. I don't think it dates back that far, though. To this day, I still don't know who the artist is. If that information ever surfaces, I for one would be most grateful!

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25 Jul 13 - 03:20 PM (#3541661)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

Song is by Big Rock and Tadpole. You can go to YouTube and hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4GgUl3l6u0

My dad used to play it on his old 45s too when I was a kid, I remember it well.

Bub.

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04 Dec 13 - 05:24 AM (#3581319)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,Jimmy

The song starts out as "Now I'm in the Navy, A sailor boy I sit......" was a song titled the "Beep Beep Song" not to be confused with a few other songs with the same title.

The 45rpm record my dad had was from the 50's or early 60's recorded on "Outhouse Records" by "Danny and The Bull Shippers". I still perform this song live at parties I play.

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05 Mar 16 - 09:34 PM (#3776898)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,In the know

I know all the words, if you want me to post. Sing it often when I get a few drinks in me. Been reciting this for years.

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27 May 18 - 10:43 AM (#3927390)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

Hey this song was on the juke box at the USO in Key West ,FL. iin 1969. It was played often & often by me. I have been trying to find it for years. (no success yet) Thanks for posting the lyrics. If you should ever find it please share. Another old sailors memory. Thanks Rick W.

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08 Sep 18 - 08:26 PM (#3949115)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,Alanmaloney

Big rock and tadpole
Song Is "ain't hit a shame"

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01 Oct 18 - 04:01 AM (#3953940)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

I used to listen to this when I was a kid, my mom said her dad got it from a June box in a bar, the beep beep song.

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14 Jun 21 - 03:25 AM (#4110083)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,$oisthisMum20

from Big Rock and Tadpole-Label "Out house records" and the flip side was Ain't Hit a Shame

What I remember from the 45 my Dad brought home when they changed the records in juke box at the OH bar where he worked:
-I am in the Navy a sailor boy I sit
-I got no one to keep me so I don't give a ****
-Ships go sailin' cross the sea so far away from shore
-I don't wear skirts & girdles so you can't call me a ****
-Horse with bridle & saddle that's what I got to sell
-If you don't want to buy them then you can go to ****
-Helen is my girlfriend's name she drives a new Ford truck
-She doesn't drive it very well but you ought to see her ****
-Fumble, fumble, fumble keep fumbling with my heart every time I eat navy beans I always to ****
-Forty dollars I will call & here's three more I pass
-If I don't win this game of dice then you can kiss my ****
-Ask my girlfriend her name to write down on your list
-Every time I drink 3.2% I always have to ****
-Peek around the corner to see that girl o' mine
-All her Mama & Papa does is stick ****
-Did, did , did you ever meet my wife, I'd like to have you meet her
-She never married me for love all she wants is ****
-Peter Murphy had a dog a very fine dog was he, he'd loan em to his girlfriend just to keep her company
-Now all around that house at night that dirty ole dog would hunt
-He'd run his nose up the ladies clothes and try to smell their ****
-Come away you dirty ole dog you make my pressure rise
-There's never been a man in this whole wide world that's laid between her ****
-Thank ya for the beer, I'll drink the damn thing down
-You better get up old man it's time for another round!

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14 Jun 21 - 01:51 PM (#4110147)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: Steve Gardham

If it helps these songs are generally referred to as 'teasing' songs.
However, the asterisks and bleeps intrigue me. All of the British teasing songs I know do not have a break for a bleep or asterisks, the substitute word that starts off the next line simply takes the place of the rude word. a la;

There was an old farmer who sat on a rick
ranting and raving and waving his
Arms to the people who sat on the walls
Teaching their children to play with their
Bow strings and kite strings as in days of yore
When along came a lady who looked like a
decent young lady who walked like a duck
She said she'd invented a new way to
Educate children to read and to write
While the parents in the farmyard were shovelling
Refuse from the back garden round to the front
While the maids in the tavern plucked hairs from their
Pullovers and jumpers ...... (No pauses)

It goes to an old Spanish waltz tune.

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09 Jul 22 - 11:21 AM (#4146863)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

danny and the bull shippers im not in the navy

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01 May 23 - 06:34 PM (#4171265)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST,DP

It’s called Beep Beep Song. It was recorded on a 45 rpm by someone called Big Rock and Tadpole.

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03 Aug 23 - 01:01 PM (#4178370)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

We’re Johnson’s and dad had his own version long ago here’s what I can remember

I’m not in the navy
Sailor boys don’t sit
Ain’t got no one to keep me
So I don’t give a
Ship don’t sail very far
To sea out from shore
And they don’t wear those little bity skirts
So you can’t call them
Horse bridle and saddle
Are the only things I sell
If you don’t wanna buy them
Then you can go to
Helen is my girlfriend
She drives an old ford truck
She ain’t too great at drivin
But you ought to see her
Fumble fumble fumble
She fumbles with my heart
Every time I eat them ole navy beans
It makes me wanna
Forty dollars I will spend
Spend no more of it

You better get up mr ole Johnson
it’s time to move along

All around the house at night
Nasty old dog would hunt
Run his nose up a ladies clothes
And try to smell her
Come away
You nasty dog
Come away I say
There ain’t been a man in the whole wide world to lay between her
But I thank you for this glass of beer
Thank no more of it

I said you better get up mr ole Johnson it’s time to pack this ship

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26 Sep 23 - 03:09 PM (#4182494)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

None of the songs listed on this thread contain the lyrics listed in the thread when searching them up online. The lyrics as I was taught in '77-'78 ...

I’m not in the Navy, a sailor boy, I said
No one cares about me,
but I don’t give a ship a sailing

Cross the sea, so far away from shore
I don’t wear skirts and girdles
So you can’t call me a …

Horse and bridle, saddle, that’s what I got to sell
If you don’t want to buy them
Then you can go to …

Helen is my girlfriends name. She drives a new Ford truck.
She never was much for driving
But you oughta see her…

Fumble, fumble, fumble, she fumbles with my heart
And every time I drink some brew
I have to get up and …

Peek around the corner, take a look at that girl of mine
She never married me for love
All she wanted was…

Peter Murphy had a dog, a very fine dog, indeed
He’d run his nose up the ladies clothes
And try to smell her…

Go away, you, dirty dog, you harm my precious pride
There’s never been a man in this whole wide world
To lay between her…

Thank you for this glass of beer. I’ll drink the dang thing down
Time to get off the floor old man
cause it’s time for another round

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26 Sep 23 - 03:09 PM (#4187847)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

None of the songs listed on this thread contain the lyrics listed in the thread when searching them up online. The lyrics as I was taught in '77-'78 ...

I’m not in the Navy, a sailor boy, I said
No one cares about me,
but I don’t give a ship a sailing

Cross the sea, so far away from shore
I don’t wear skirts and girdles
So you can’t call me a …

Horse and bridle, saddle, that’s what I got to sell
If you don’t want to buy them
Then you can go to …

Helen is my girlfriends name. She drives a new Ford truck.
She never was much for driving
But you oughta see her…

Fumble, fumble, fumble, she fumbles with my heart
And every time I drink some brew
I have to get up and …

Peek around the corner, take a look at that girl of mine
She never married me for love
All she wanted was…

Peter Murphy had a dog, a very fine dog, indeed
He’d run his nose up the ladies clothes
And try to smell her…

Go away, you, dirty dog, you harm my precious pride
There’s never been a man in this whole wide world
To lay between her…

Thank you for this glass of beer. I’ll drink the dang thing down
Time to get off the floor old man
cause it’s time for another round

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24 Sep 24 - 08:54 AM (#4208790)
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
From: GUEST

IT IS CALLED THE "BEEP" "BEEP" SONG! I STILL HAVE THE ORIGINAL ON "45".

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