Lyr Req: Sewer songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sewer songs
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 13 Nov 17 - 04:18 AM

"Sister Susie sewing suits for sailors".

That's a song about a 'sewer'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sewer songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Nov 17 - 05:41 AM

GUEST,Gerry: Yes, I know who Sawney Bean was. I just don't understand why he's mentioned in this song.

It wasn't necessary to copy the entire Wikipedia article into Mudcat. A link would have been sufficient, or more than sufficient.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sewer songs
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 06:10 PM

Richard F
Have you got an original for the song by Richard Bloomfield?

My father sang a fragment something similar from WWII

Down in the sewer, you mucky little hooer (whore)
I like to hear me balls go clickety clickety clack!

He didn't remember any more. The tune was something like 'I took her gathering roses'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sewer songs
From: GUEST,The Man from UNCOOL
Date: 12 Feb 24 - 06:07 PM

I suspect Richard Bloomfield 1988 is the auto-signature of "Richard [who lives in] Felixtowe" [his original handle when he posted].
Tom Walsh suggests that the song "Working Down The Sewer" "moved up" to Preston [where he first heard it] from further South [in England, but still somewhere in The North, by southern measures].  It would be way earlier than 1988.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sewer songs
From: BobL
Date: 13 Feb 24 - 03:47 AM

Just for the record:

There was a young fellow from Hyde,
Who fell in a sewer and died.
Next morning, his brother
Fell into another
And now they're interred side by side.

The Yetties actually got away with this one on BBC radio once...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sewer songs
From: GUEST,John from "Elsie`s Band"
Date: 13 Feb 24 - 06:48 AM

"Down Below", as detailed earlier in this thread, was a staple for Red Sullivan in the 60`s to 70`s folk clubs in the S.E.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sewer songs
From: Severn
Date: 13 Feb 24 - 08:24 PM

Goddamn Sam I

Goddamn Sam, the lavatory man,
Chief Engineer of the shit house clan,
Pass out the paper, pass out the towels
Run to the rhythm of the people's bowels.
Deep Down, under the ground
Little black turds swimming round and round
Flip, flap, under that shack
I've got the shithouse blues.....


I Learned on the playground while at Elementary school in Kensington MD USA. I sang it for my singing teacher,the l are great
Lisa Null at a lesson once and she sang me a different but similar set of words, so the song got around.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sewer songs
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 25 - 09:30 PM

I can only remember the chorus of one                                    "down in the sewer shovelling manure listening to the turds go plop plop plop filled with delight shovelling up the shite when I was foreman at the sewerage works