Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!

Subject: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:32 PM

Oh Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!

Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me!
As she lay between the lilly white sheets with nothing on at all!

Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch!
As she lay between the lilly white sheets with nothing on at all!

Oh, Sir Jasper do not!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not!
As she lay between the lilly white sheets with nothing on at all!

Oh, Sir Jasper do!
Oh, Sir Jasper do!
Oh, Sir Jasper do!
As she lay between the lilly white sheets with nothing on at all!

Oh, Sir Jasper!
Oh, Sir Jasper!
Oh, Sir Jasper!
As she lay between the lilly white sheets with nothing on at all!

Oh, Sir!
Oh, Sir!
Oh, Sir!
As she lay between the lilly white sheets with nothing on at all!

Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
As she lay between the lilly white sheets with nothing on at all!

Posted as a comment to this video by user @mrzxcvb9

Great song, was taught it at Scout Camp back in the 50s
and always great for a good laugh, still singing it at camps
yet, But he missed out a verse that is the chorus, I.e. She's
a most immoral lady, (repeat three times) then, as she lay
between the lily white sheets with nothing on at all.   All the
best from Bonnie Scotland

Text of song transcribed from the youtube video posted by threelegsoman on Jan 20, 2010.

See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0n1R8ABSzU



Sir Jasper is sometimes titled "Sir Roger" and is sometimes added onto "Sir Roger of Kildare [aka Shoot the Cat]".
"She Wears Her Pink Pajamas" is sometimes used as an introduction to "Sir Jasper".

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:33 PM

Roud index Roud #10311 mixes "Sir Jasper" with examples of "She wears her Pink Pajamas :

https://www.vwml.org/component/rbdmdtallis2/?view=search&q=rn10311

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:33 PM

Oh, Sir Jasper

DESCRIPTION: "Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me (x3) As she slipped between the sheets with nothing on at all." "Oh Sir Jasper do not touch (x3), As she...." "Oh, Sir Jasper, do not..." "Oh, Sir Jasper, do..." "Oh, Sir Jasper...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (John Brunner, "The Number of My Days," Nebula Science Fiction 19 [December 1956], according to Jonathan Lighter)
KEYWORDS: wordplay sex derivative campsong
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 168, 393, 394, "Oh, Sir Jasper"/"Oh, So Jasper" (sic.) (notes only)
DT, SIJASPR*
Roud #10311
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "John Brown's Body" (tune) and references there
cf. "I Wear My Pink Pajamas" (lyrics)
NOTES [110 words]: The trick here, of course, is that each time through, one more word is left out (perhaps with muffled sounds replacing it), until the final sounds are almost orgasmic.
It really should end with a "Tee hee," at least if anyone knows Chaucer's "Miller's Tale."
I would love to know what camps allowed this thing!
Averill calls this sort of thing, where words are left out of a song, a "decremental song." All I can say is, in terms of cleverness, this stands head and shoulders above the rest, even if it is not usable in polite company.
"John Brown's Body" seems to be a popular tune for decemental songs, being used for both this and "John Brown's Flivver." - RBW
Last updated in version 6.6

Retrieved from the Ballad Index: https://balladindex.org/Ballads/ACSF168J.html on March 6, 2024.

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:34 PM

She wears her silk pyjamas in the summer when it's hot,
she wears her flannel nightie in the winter when it's not.
And sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall
she jumps between the lilywhite sheets with nothing on at all.

Often followed by
Oh, Sir Roger do not touch me (x3)
As she jumps between the lilywhite sheets with nothing on at all.

and the chorus losing one word of the first line at subsequent repetitions.

Posted to the "John Brown's Body" thread by Rowan on 17 October, 2006.

See post here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=1861784

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:35 PM

SHE'S A MOST IMMORAL LADY

Melody--Battle Hymn of the Republic

She wears her silk pajamas in the summer when it's hot,
She wears her woolen nightie in the winter when it's not,
But later in the springtime, and early in the fall,
She jumps between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all.

Chorus: She's a most immoral lady,
She's a most immoral lady,
She's a most immoral lady,
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all.

Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me,
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me,
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me,
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all.

Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch! (three times)
Oh, Sir Jasper do not! (three times)
Oh, Sir Jasper do! (three times)
Oh, Sir Jasper! (three times)
Oh, Sir! (three times)
Oh! (three times)

Posted by GUEST,.gargoyle to the mudcat Rugby Football Songs thread on October 3, 2001.

Original post: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=564053

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:36 PM

... Oh , sir Roger , do not touch me !, the following sequence is obtained :
Oh, Sir Roger, do not touch !
Oh, Sir Roger, do not !
Oh, Sir Roger, do !
Oh, Sir Roger!
Oh, Sir !
Oh!

The same mechanism of successive ellipsis ...

Humour: An Anatomy & Physiology by Cristina Tataru. 1999. pg 215.

Snipet view only:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Humour/RHcHAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22oh+sir+roger%22&dq=%22oh+sir+roger%22&printsec=frontcover

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:36 PM

Evolution

Oh, George, let's not park here
Oh, George, let's not park
Oh, Goerge, let's not
Oh, George, let's
Oh, George
Oh!

The Complete Immortalia. 1971. Pg 454.

See online here: https://archive.org/details/bawdybedsideread00rhva/page/454/mode/2up?q=george

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:37 PM

Oh dear John, let's not park here!
Oh dear John, let's not park!
Oh dear John, let's not!
Oh dear John, let's!
Oh dear John!
Oh dear!
Oh!

Western Folklore. 1970. Pg 101.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Western_Folklore/-hRrCGtSofkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Oh%22+%22not+park+here%22&dq=%22Oh%22+%22not+park+here%22&printsec=frontcover

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:48 PM

SIR ROGER OF KILDARE
(Tune: John Brown's Body)

Oh, please, Mother darling, may I go to the fair,
May I go with Sir Roger, Sir Roger of Kildare?
For he's young and he is handsome,
And he loves me for my sake;

Oh, please, Mother darling, may I go to the fete?
Oh, yes, my darling daughter, you may go to the fair,
You may go with Sir Roger, Sir Roger of Kildare.
But although he's young and handsome,
And he loves you for your sake,
Just take the bread and butter when he offers you the
cake.

Oh, poor little Mable, she went to the fair,
She went with Sir Roger, Sir Roger of Kildare,
And he offered her some candy,
And he offered her some cake,
And it wasn't very long before her turn began to ache.

She wears a silken nightie in the summer when it's hot,
She wears her pyjamas in the winter when it's not.
And sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall
She slips between the sheets with nothing on at all.

Glory, glory for the summer when it's hot,
Glory, glory for the winter when it's not.
Glory for the sprintime and glory for the fall
When she slips between the sheets with nothing on at all

Oh, Sir Roger, do not touch me,
Oh, Sir Roger, Do not touch me,
Oh, Sir Roger, do not touch me,
As she lay between the sheets with nothing on at all
(Refrain to be sung with successive omissions).

She's a very naughty lady,
She's a very naughty lady,
She's a very naughty lady,
As she lay between the sheets with nothing on at all

University Song Book. Geoff Best, Tony Correll and Ian Owens (editors). 1966. pg 49

See online here: https://archive.org/details/1966-uni-song-book-by-best/page/n25/mode/2up?q=%22sir+roger+of+kildare%22

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:49 PM

Oh, Sir Jasper

"Oh, Sir Japser do not touch me!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me!"
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

"Oh, Sir Japser do not touch!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch!"
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

"Oh, Sir Japser do not!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not!
Oh, Sir Jasper do not!"
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

"Oh, Sir Japser do!
Oh, Sir Jasper do!
Oh, Sir Jasper do!"
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

"Oh, Sir Japser!
Oh, Sir Jasper!
Oh, Sir Jasper!"
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

"Oh, Sir!
Oh, Sir!
Oh, Sir!"
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

"Oh!
Oh!
Oh!"
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

"Immorality for ever!"
Immorality for ever!
Immorality for ever!"
As she lay between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all!

Students' song. Tune: John Brown's Body, with a variation.

The Singing Street by James Ritchie. 1964. Pg 104-105.

See online here: https://archive.org/details/singingstreet0000jame/page/104/mode/2up?q=sir+jasper

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:50 PM

SIR JASPER

Oh Sir Jasper, do not touch me -
Oh Sir Jasper, do not touch -
Oh Sir Jasper, do not -
Oh Sir Jasper, do -
Oh Sir Jasper -
Oh Sir -
Oh -

Snatches & Lays. first edition. 1962. pg 34. Listed in the song section but no tune indicated.

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:51 PM

SIR ROGER OF KILDARE
(Tune. "John Brown's Body!'.

Oh, please Mother darling, may I go to the fair,
May I go with Sir Roger, Sir Roger of Kildare?
And he loves me for my sake,
Oh, please, Mother darling may I go the fete?

Oh, yes, my darling daughter you may go the fair,
You may go with Sir Roger, Sir Roger of Kildare,
But although he's young and handsome,
And he loves you for your sake,
Just take the bread and butter when he offers you the cake.

Oh, poor little Mabel, she went to the fair,
She went with Sir Roger, Sir Roger of Kildare,
And he offered her some candy,
And he offered he some cake,
And it wasn't very long before her turn began to ache.

And all you young maidens, just beware, just beware,
Beware of Sir Roger, Sir Roger of Kildare,
For there is another version,
But we've brushed it up with care,
So sing the other version - if you dare, if you dare!

She wears a silken nightie in the summer when it's hot,
She wears her red pyjamas in the winter when it's not,
And sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall,
She slips between the sheets with nothing on at all

Glory, glory for the summer when it's hot,
Glory, glory for the winter when it's not,
Glory for the springtime and glory for the fall,
When she slips between the sheets with nothing on at all

Oh! Sir Roger do not touch me,
Oh! Sir Roger do not touch me,
Oh! Sir Roger do not touch me,
As she lay between the sheets with nothing on at all.

She's a very naughty lady,
She's a very naughty lady,
She's a very naughty lady,
As she lay between the sheets with nothing on at all
(Refrain to be sung with successive omissions.).

Queensland University (St. Lucia) Hockey Club Song Book ca. 1960

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:51 PM

38 SIR ROGER

Oh Sir Roger do not touch me
"   "   "    "   "   "    "
"   "   "    "   "   "    "
As she layd between the lily white
sheets with nothing on at all
Oh Sir Roger Do not touch
"   "    "   "   "   
"   "    "   "   
"   "    "   
"   "
"

From an Untitled Hessel RUFC [Rugby Union Football Club] Songbook. c1960.

See online here:

https://archive.org/details/1960ca-untitled-hessle-rufc-songbook-missing-songs-18-31-36-39/page/n11/mode/2up?q=%22oh+sir%22+%22do+not+touch%22

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:52 PM

....unrepeatable ones like Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! and a blasphemous
parody of La Golondrina which Pereira sang....

Snipped of John Brunner's story, "The Number of My Days," in Nebula Science Fiction, 19 (Dec., 1956).

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nebula_Science_Fiction/y-ftiF1gtXsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22oh+sir%22+%22do+not+touch+me%22&dq=%22oh+sir%22+%22do+not+touch+me%22&printsec=frontcover

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:55 PM

....Joan, who had bawdy tastes, taught us 'O Sir Jasper'[26],
'My God how the Money Rolls in', 'Roll Me Over in the Colver',
'Little Mary up the Glen', 'The Virgin Sturgeon', and a ditty I
have not come across since: I wish I was a fascinating
bitch....Joan's repertoire came to her chiefly through her
boyfriend, a student at University College, London; she used
to go with him to sporting events, college dances and Rag Days,
from which she often brought back some new song or additional verses....

The girl who haughtily begins 'O Sir Jasper, do not touch me!'
is soon cooing 'O Sir Jasper, do!' and ends with an orgasmic
'O! O! O!' Moreover, she is an ideally available figure:

She wears her silken nightly in the summer when it's hot,
She wears her wool pyjamas in the winter when it's not;
But sometimes if you lucky you can catch her in the fall,
When she slip between the lily-white sheets with nothing on at all.

[26]The tune is 'John Brown's Body'. The verse is quoted below.
The chorus is a triple repetition of 'O sir Jasper, do not
touch me', followed by 'As she slips between the lily-white
sheets with nothing on at all'. The chorus is then repeated
several times, removig one word at each repetition ('O Sir Jasper,
do not touch' etc.), till only three very expressive 'O!'s
are left.

"Songs of a Female Student Group, 1949-52" by Jacqueline Simpson. Folk Music Journal, Vol. 4, No. 5 (1984), pp. 504-527

JSTOR link: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4522159

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:55 PM

Oh! George let's don't park here!
Oh! George let's don't park!
Oh! George let's don't!
Oh! George let's!
Oh! George!
Oh!

Typo Graphic. 1947. Pg 41.

See online here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Typo_Graphic/8e8oAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Oh%22+%22don%27t+park%22+joke+OR+humor&dq=%22Oh%22+%22don%27t+park%22+joke+OR+humor&printsec=frontcover

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:56 PM

"Oh Lloyd, don't let's park here."
"Oh Lloyd, don't let's park."
"Oh Lloyd, don't let's."
"Oh Lloyd, don't"
"Oh Lloyd"
"Oooooh"

From the 1934 movie Handy Andy.

See movie clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chWwaRJdrBU

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:57 PM

Oh!

Oh, John, please don't let's park here
Oh, John, please don't let's park
Oh, John, please don't let's
Oh, John, please don't
Oh, John, please
Oh, John
Oh!
That, gentlemen, is the short short
story of the ages!

South of Market Journal, September, 1930. Pg 5.

See online: https://archive.org/details/southofmarketjou4519281930sout/page/n487/mode/2up?q=%22don%27t+let%27s+park%22


After this Sep 1930 appearance, it shows up in several newspapers in 1931:

Strathmore standard (1931-04-15)

Vulcan advocate (1931-04-09)

The Blairmore enterprise (1931-04-02)

The Carbon chronicle (1931-04-23)

These all have "John" with an introductory line "Just a smile for all the hands in your office--this bein' the latest from any battlefield-"

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:58 PM

...One of the boys in the office slipped us this one. He said he crabbed it from the columns of a very popular weekly.

But we don't care. It's worth pasainr on. Here Hollywood. a smile for all hands hi year offices --this the latest from the Hollywood battlefields! Oh, John, please don't lef park here--. Oh.

John, please don't let's park--. Oh. John, please don't let's--. Oh. John, please don't--.

Oh. John, Oh. John--. Oh! That, gentlemen, is the short, short torr of It or leave It. William S.

Suburbanite Economist. Tuesday, July 8, 1930. pg 7.

See here: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/53002746/

I don't have access to the image of the poem. But the OCR text is below.

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: and e
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 08:58 PM

The "Oh Sir Jasper" is often associated with "Pink Pajamas" as they share the same tune. But "Pink Pajamas" can be traced as an independent ditty to pre-WWI.

See this mudcat thread for "Pink Pajamas":

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=172802

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Mar 24 - 09:31 PM

Bit of a funny thread, but I remember a camping holiday in Scotland in 1974 when we had to walk four miles there and four (pissed) miles back to get to the nearest pub to the campsite (in Killin, Perthshire). We sang this song, exactly as in the opening post, to keep us going on the long slog back. To do it right, you have to do some almost orgasmic singing on the "Oh, Sir Jasper!" line!

And "She's a most immoral lady" is a key part of the song!

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 14 Mar 24 - 08:19 AM

Not forgetting the version by The Goodies Father Christmas do not touch me

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 14 Mar 24 - 03:15 PM

.... which mysteriously fades during the second-to-last verse ....

Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me!
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 16 Mar 24 - 08:11 PM

Certainly remember singing this when I was in Girl Guides in the early 60s: possibly not around the camp fire or within Captain’s hearing!