Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: GUEST,GUESTrainbow84uk Date: 17 May 08 - 07:25 PM When I was 4 or 5 I know we used to sing the following with great delight at primary school in Lancs, NW England: What's the time? Ten to nine Hang your knickers on the line When they're dry, bring them in And put them in the biscuit tin Eat a biscuit, eat a cake Eat your knickers by mistake! |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Joe_F Date: 17 May 08 - 08:57 PM This thread exemplifies a curious shift that the dictionaries (AHD, MWC13, OED) have not caught up with. "Underwear", to the dictionaries (& me), is an uncountable noun referring generally to undershirts, underpants, etc. But to many Americans these days it means underpants, and the identification is so complete that it takes plural verbs & pronouns. I suppose this must have gotten started as a euphemism -- generality standing in for vagueness, as in "bathroom" for "toilet", "marketing" for "promotion", etc. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 17 May 08 - 11:52 PM I wasn't here Megan. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Nick E Date: 18 May 08 - 12:17 AM Makes me think of the song celebrating the wearing of kilts... Donald where's your trousers? Let the winds blow high, let the winds blow low.. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Nick E Date: 18 May 08 - 12:20 AM just down from the Isle of Skye I'm no very big but I'm awful shy All the lassies shout as I walk by, "Donald, Where's Your Trousers?" Let the wind blow high and the wind blow low Through the streets in my kilt I go All the lassies cry, "Hello! Donald, where's your trousers?" I went to a fancy ball It was slippery in the hall I was afeared that I may fall Because I nay had on trousers I went down to London town To have a little fun in the underground All the Ladies turned their heads around, saying, "Donald, where's your trousers?" The lassies love me every one But they must catch me if they can You canna put the breeks on a highland man, saying, "Donald, where's your trousers?" |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: mg Date: 18 May 08 - 02:44 AM A great Stan Boreson??? song called sewed up in my vinter undervear.. when my face turns blue and contortions I go through when I'm sewed up in my vinter undervear ..but when it comes to other seasons...?? The old grey mare she crossed the delaware lost her underwear couldn't find it anywhere six years later she found it on a polar bear many long years ago. Biddy McGraw |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: van lingle Date: 18 May 08 - 04:53 AM As kids we used to sing that one this way: The old grey mare, Sat in a 'lectric chair, Burnt off her underwear, Couldn't get another pair, Many long years ago. And Mississippi John Hurt's "Richland Women Blues" contains this verse: Give me rosy red garters, Pink hose on the feet, Turkey red bloomers, With a rumble seat. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: mg Date: 19 May 08 - 01:18 AM relatively unknown verse from Banks of Newfoundland.. she tore her flannel petticoats to make mittens for my hands saying I would not see my true love freeze on the Banks of Newfoundland. Lots of Petticoats... I'll dye my petticoats dye them red |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,socks Date: 19 May 08 - 04:16 AM If socks count as underwear: Black socks, they never get dirty The longer you wear them the blacker they get Sometimes I think I should wash them Then something inside me says "no, not yet"! |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,Joker_1226 Date: 26 Aug 08 - 11:39 PM The boy stood on the burning deck, his feet were full of blisters. he tore his pants on a rusty nail, and now he wears his sisters. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear son From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:37 AM The Scotsman has been discussed on this forum, worth looking up if you're not familiar it. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: topical tom Date: 27 Aug 08 - 04:29 PM The founder of McGill University was immortalized (more or less) by this student song.I remember only a few words: James McGill, James McGill, Can't you see him(?) lying there In his dirty underwear? The rest of the lyrics escape me. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear son From: Georgiansilver Date: 27 Aug 08 - 04:35 PM Oh Maggie Maggie May, they have taken her away, And left me with her old red flannel drawers, They are tattered they are torn, Round the ..... 'armhole' they are worn, Oh the old red flannel drawers that Maggie wore. Memories of my Rugby days....... |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,letthanded guitar Date: 27 Aug 08 - 04:58 PM the long john version is the one I learned in college but we reversed the lines to If you see them you'll know where to find me How I miss that little trap door behind me tee hee luv that tune. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Susu's Hubby Date: 28 Aug 08 - 12:31 PM The only one I've committed to memory goes like this.... (Sung to the tune of "Country Roads") "Almost Heaven Oklahoma! Big Red River Lots of dust and tumbleweeds. Country music Leon Russell too! Then there's Conway Twitty In Oklahoma City. (Chorus) Country Roads Take me there. I need a change Of underwear. Oklahoma Welfare for all! Take me home Country Roads. Up in Tulsa, I met the cutest squaw. I tried to kiss her But she swung hard And Broke my jaw." I can't remember the second part of the second verse but you just repeat the chorus and you're done. Hubby |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: ToulouseCruise Date: 28 Aug 08 - 04:01 PM A little bit of modern... from (ironically) the Barenaked Ladies' song called "Pinch Me" On an evening such as this It's hard to tell if I exist If I Packed a car and leave this town Who'll notice that I'm not around? I could hide out under there I just made you say 'underwear' I could leave but I'll just stay All my stuff's here anyway. etc etc |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear son From: Georgiansilver Date: 28 Aug 08 - 06:25 PM You obviously want traditional thongs! |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: rodentred Date: 29 Aug 08 - 07:06 AM Of course there is the Kippers take on The man that came home broke .. Chorus As I walk along the promenade with a chilly derriere All the girls declare saying he's in disrepair And they close their eyes and wish I'd die They seem to think my end is nigh I'm the bloke that came home broke from Cromer Bingo Verse I was taken to the cleaners at that hall there is no doubt I thought I'd lose some dirt but I only lost me shirt And then I lost my trousers and my underwear and all Now the prom's the only place I can frequent Coz I've even lost the shirt that I was lent |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,husna_baldy head Date: 17 Feb 09 - 08:24 PM there was a girls names asmahshe lost her underwear in the swimming pool someone stoled her underwear and it was her sister. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,U NO HOO Date: 22 Mar 09 - 05:34 PM RE: "Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:57 AM "Hi ho Silverware Tonto lost his underwear. Tonto say, "Me no care, Lone Ranger buy me 'nother pair!" An old rhyme learned in those dim dark days of childhood........... " I remember the last line as: Me go buy another pair. |
Subject: Lyr Add: A LITTLE BIT OF 'LASTIC (Richie Kavanagh) From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 22 Mar 09 - 06:39 PM A song I heard sung by Vincent Boyle the traditional way although it later turned out to be a Ritchie Kavanagh song. "A LITTLE BIT OF 'LASTIC" Lyrics and Music by Richie Kavanagh I'm a little bit of 'lastic an a little bit of lace I was made for to cover your important little place Lads try to get their hands on me and end up in disgrace I'm a little bit of 'lastic an a little bit of lace I come in all kinds of colours every shape an size The one thing about me is the element of surprise Every Monday morning I'm hung out on the line And left there all day if the weather it is fine I'm a little bit of 'lastic an a little bit of lace I was made for to cover your important little place Lads try to get their hands on me and end up in disgrace I'm a little bit of 'lastic an a little bit of lace Ah sure I'm hanging here upon the line all through out the day An as the lads pass by they all ways look my way Ya know now if I could talk to them such story's I could tell But I know the way the look at me the know it all to well I'm a little bit of 'lastic an a little bit of lace I was made for to cover your important little place Lads try to get their hands on me and end up in disgrace I'm a little bit of 'lastic an a little bit of lace Now the make me much smaller I hardly cover it at all A course the price is bigger though I am very small Now when I get a bit torn I know the end is near Thought I hear that big Maggie has the same one 20 year I'm a little bit of 'lastic an a little bit of lace I was made for to cover your important little place Lads try to get their hands on me and end up in disgrace I'm a little bit of 'lastic an a little bit of lace |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear son From: Genie Date: 22 Mar 09 - 06:56 PM The Tennessee Bird Walk ... Take away their feathers and the birds'll walk around in underwear ... cho: Oh, remember me my darling, when spring is in the air When the bald-headed birds are whispering everywhere When you see them walkin' southward in their dirty underwear It's The Tennessee Birdwalk. ... And how about some feathers, so their underwear no longer will be seen ... |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Mrrzy Date: 23 Mar 09 - 11:29 AM Underwear! Underwear! How I itch In my new Underwear! |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear son From: GUEST,Philthy Date: 13 Oct 09 - 03:21 PM Teacher teacher I declare, I see someone's underwear. Might be pink, might be white, might be filled with dynamite. That's the way I remember it. Philthy |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear son From: Charley Noble Date: 13 Oct 09 - 04:37 PM Then there's the traditional sea shanty "Serafina," a busy flash gal from Calleo, on the West Coast of South America: Serafina's got no drawers, I've been ashore and seen her - Serafina, Serafina! She's got no time to put 'em on, Hard-working Serafina! Serafina, Sera-phi-na! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Rockhen Date: 24 Oct 09 - 03:06 PM I wrote one about a friend's problems with contemporary female underwear. I have just loaded it onto my old band's myspace, in case anyone has a minute to have a listen. I don't really check the site now as I have a Rockhen one as my main one instead, but please feel free to check out the song, 'Give Me A Clue'... particularly if you have had confusion over aspects of the aforementioned items... :-) Check out song, 'Give Me A Clue' :-) |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Young Buchan Date: 25 Oct 09 - 06:42 AM We three kings of Leicester Square Selling ladies underwear How fantastic, no elastic Seven and six a pair |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Young Buchan Date: 25 Oct 09 - 03:22 PM And to delve into even greater vulgarity: The rich girl uses a brassiere The poor girl uses string But Dinah uses nothing at all She just lets them swing. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Young Buchan Date: 26 Oct 09 - 05:27 AM A few more items from the underwear drawer: Take off, take off my gown of silk But let my petticoat be, And tie a napkin round my eyes That the gallows I may not see. Mary Hamilton (and also similar in Earl of Warriston) What's it to any man whether or no Whether I'm easy or whether I'm true? As I lifted her petticoat easy and slow And tied up my sleeve for to buckle her shoe. Dom Behan Flashy dashy petticoats Flashy dashy shawls Four and a tanner's worth of boots - We're the Gallus Molls from Jeannie Robertson Choruses of different versions of Robin-a-Thrush include 'Flashy green petticoats' and 'Show us your petticoat' She's kilted up her petticoats And after him rode she. False Lover Won Back and just about any other ballad where a girl gets on a horse As we jogged on together, my boys, together side by side By chance this fair maid's garter, by chance it came untied For fear that she might lose it, I unto her did say "Oh my love your garter is come untied, sing folderoliddle all day. As we jogged on together, my boys, the grass was growin' high I laid this girl upon her back, her garter for to tie While tying of her garter, such sights you never did see And we both jogged on together, me boys, sing folderoliddle all day. Umps and Dumps |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Smedley Date: 26 Oct 09 - 12:53 PM Young Buchan's "We three kings of Leicester Square Selling ladies underwear How fantastic, no elastic Seven and six a pair " came with slightly different lines in my childhood, which (if I might be so bold) added a new dimension of dramatic urgency: We three kings of Leicester Square Selling knickers tuppence a pair So fantastic, no elastic, Very unsafe to wear. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 26 Oct 09 - 01:46 PM I lost my mind and composed this one in honor of this unique theme: Poor Jon was a young lad who toiled in tall cotton. A handsome young fellow who'd be long forgotten Were it not for the time, when most lads were at war, Young Jon found himself, after work, in a bar. A hard-working crew of young ladies came in, They were doing men's work, a-getting crops in.. They were all filling in for their male counterparts, Engaged in some battle in far distant parts. They soon cast their eyes on our hero, Big Jon, Who, noting the attention, began leading them on. And then, in a flash, poor Jon was surrounded For the young ladies' ardor, nay, lust - soon abounded. He was, after all, the first man they had seen Since their regular consorts had marched from the scene. They grasped at his shirt, and soon ripped it to shreds, They went for the breeches, filling poor Jon with dread. For what, after all, could one gentleman do, To satisfy such a libidinous crew? He made for the door, lost his boots in the scuffle, With his pants at the half-mast, he mastered the shuffle. He shed them right smartly as he ran down the stairs, With the girls in pursuit and himself nearly bare. What saved him from hell, at the hands of those pickers, Was the timely invention of breakaway knickers! He sprinted, he galloped, he ran double fast, He eluded them finally, albeit bare-assed. And so Jon's reputation continued to grow, Where the women are lusty and the tall cotton grows. He saved those young maidens from the dread Scarlet Letter, But, now, thinking on it, he could have done better. Were it me, praise the Lord, I'd have lain down and took it, But poor feckless Jon, why, the fool just forsook it. When the question of honor thus clouded his thinking, Jon fled from the scene with his "tail lights" a-blinking. I'm sure the girls' menfolk were grateful and all, But they laughed ever after 'bout how Jon missed the Ball. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,Lynne Phelps Date: 25 Aug 10 - 08:38 PM This was a patty-cakes hand slapping song when I was in first grade, very elaborate movements: John Brown, John Brown, sitting like a polar bear lost all his underwear, couldn't find it anywhere. Ten days later, found it by a polar bear way dow-own south south south. There were many verses but I can't remember them. One about swimming in a deep blue sea? |
Subject: Lyr Add: WALKIN' ROUND IN WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR From: Genie Date: 25 Aug 10 - 10:30 PM WALKIN' ROUND IN WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR (Bob Rivers) Lacy things the wife is missin', Didn't ask for her permission. I'm wearin' her clothes, Her silk pantyhose, Walkin' 'round in women's underwear. In the store there's a teddy, With little straps like spaghetti. It holds me so tight, Like handcuffs at night, Walkin' 'round in women's underwear. In the office there's a guy named Melvin, He pretends that I am Murphy Brown. He'll say, "Are you ready?" We'll say,"Whoa, Man! Let's wait until the wife is out of town!" Later on, if you wanna, We can dress like Madonna, Put on some eyeshade, And join the parade, Walkin' 'round in women's underwear! (Tune: "Winter Wonderland") Copyright Bob Rivers. Recorded on "Twisted Christmas", Rivers click |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST Date: 17 Mar 11 - 10:03 PM oh ah i lost my bra i think i lost it in my boyfriends car or something like that |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: PHJim Date: 18 Mar 11 - 01:40 AM Hayes Carll's Flowers And Liquor has a verse that goes like this: We'll go home and leave the lights on Wear G-Strings and see-through tights oh We'll make love and we'll have a ball In the kitchen, against the wall I'm getting excited, Hope I'm invited I want to spend the night with you |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,Orson Trap Date: 18 Mar 11 - 05:47 AM Without going through all the replies, so apologies if it has already been mentioned. Zoe Mulford has a song "Lifes too short to fold underwear". Worth going to see her next time she is in your area. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,Arielle Sax Date: 07 Apr 11 - 12:21 PM God Bless My Underwear My mom always taught me this line- From the washer To the dryer To the clothesline To my rear! |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST Date: 06 Nov 12 - 08:31 AM It ends with "He's our father! Ask our mothers! Jaaaaaaames McGILL!" |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,George Henderson Date: 07 Nov 12 - 06:43 AM I always wear nothing under my clothes. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Bert Date: 07 Nov 12 - 10:24 AM To the tune of Strawberry Roan. Oh Grannies red drawers Oh Grannies red drawers There's a hole in the middle so Grannie can piddle Oh Grannies red drawers. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Haruo Date: 07 Nov 12 - 10:33 AM I see Mary Garvey mentioned Valking in my Vinter Undervear by Stan Boreson; one of his last songs—he's not dead, but he has stopped singing for the public—is about the absence of underwear and all other attire: I Just Don't Look Good Naked Anymore. (YouTube from a 2007 video) I'm surprised I don't see Vinter Undervear's lyrics in the database or forum. Will try to post later if nobody beats me to it. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Haruo Date: 07 Nov 12 - 10:42 AM Meantime, here's a clip from Lawrence Welk of (the young) Boreson doing a straight "Winter Wonderland" and then segueing into "Uncle Torvald's way of singing it". And here's one of yust the Scandihoovian version by another singer, from Minnesota (Boreson is from Seattle; I always think of him as being from Ballard, because of the accent, but the fact is he went to Roosevelt with my Aunt Annie). |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Haruo Date: 07 Nov 12 - 11:09 AM And here's one of Stan and someone else (I was a Patches Pal! I didn't watch Stan much as a kid even though we sang his songs every Christmas.) From: Haruo Date: 07 Nov 12 - 11:20 AM And speaking of not wearing any, what about the Scotsman who, upon awakening, said "I see ye won first prize"? |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Rusty Dobro Date: 07 Nov 12 - 03:50 PM And from the late and very great Monty Parkin, this parody: I wore my pants from Marks and Spencers And made pretences that they would do But in my mind I felt contrary, They were too lairy, not a nice plain blue. Far, far away, my wife's aunt Elsie, Who lived near Chelsea, sent them to me. And so I sat, through the Christmas season, With my new undies on, and watched TV. A crashing bore, the same old drag, When it was done I grabbed a bag, I went down to Marks and Spencers, I was not alone..... 'May I return these pants, please, missus, They're all right for sissies, not for us real men.' She looked at me, a trifle weary, 'I suppose so, deary', and I went home again. Give me my dull old pants, give me my dull old pants, Give me my dull old pants, give me my dull old pants. This was written for Monty's weekly spot on Radio Kent, but perhaps understandably they thought it might offend the original noble composer, and vetoed it. I still trot it out every January, though. |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel Date: 08 Nov 12 - 11:04 AM I know at least one person who thought that "Rose of Allendale" had a reference to bras... "One maidenform withstood the storm". |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Jim Carroll Date: 08 Nov 12 - 02:27 PM Ed Pickford once wrote a song entitled 'You Can't Wear Your Knickers at Ascot' as a response to a ban on hot pants at the race meeting. Then there's 'The Tailor's Britches', where the tailor swaps clothes with his dance partner and is left only her petticoat to preserve his modest, which eventually falls to the ground: revealing for all of the others to see, Just what it was that endeared you to me (another song) And last but not least: I know a girl in Waterloo, She don't wear no - yes she do. I know a girl in Berkley Square, She don't wear no underwear Jim Carroll |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Bert Date: 08 Nov 12 - 06:20 PM Didn't Lonnie Donnegan say something like 'Rose is wearing them!'? |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: GUEST,BobL Date: 09 Nov 12 - 04:35 AM When he removed her underwear, He found the Red Flag flying there. (sorry) |
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs From: Snuffy Date: 09 Nov 12 - 09:29 AM I say, I say, I say, My dustbin's full of lilies. Well throw 'em away then! I can't: Lily's wearing them. |
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