Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..
From: GUEST,Duke
Date: 08 Aug 16 - 09:03 PM

The pop version mentioned above was National City by the Joiner, Arkansas Junior High School Band. I found a copy on Youtube.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..
From: GUEST,John Adams
Date: 08 Jul 17 - 04:38 AM

When I was young, I often stayed at with my Aunt and Uncle at weekends. The BBC used to have a Saturday morning programme called 'Marching and Waltzing'. On one occasion they played 'The National Emblem' march. I was very surprised when my Uncle started to sing in tune, 'Have you ever caught your bollocks in a rat trap ?' He had been 'transported' back to The Somme battlefield in 1916 and explained that they were the words which the infantry sang while marching up to the front. He was in the Norfolk Regiment.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..
From: GUEST,Dillo
Date: 14 Jun 18 - 06:36 PM

And the monkey wrapped his tail 'round the flagpole, to see the grass grow, around his assole

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..
From: GUEST,Joe, Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired
Date: 14 Jul 18 - 03:50 PM

UK Version

Have you ever caught
Your bollocks in a mangle

To see them dangle
Before your eyes?

Have you ever caught
Your bollocks in a mangle

To see if they would
Attract some flies?

Have you ever caught your
Bollocks in a mangle

So you could piss off
The others guys?

Well, if you've done all that
Then I'll tip my hat

And give you a
Great big prize


Here's a link to the best version on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U40OIESDwlU


And here's a link to the junior high school version mentioned above...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCwbuoVtJBc


HAPPY BASTILLE DAY

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..
From: GUEST,Ex Cell, N.C.
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 09:32 PM

Oh the monkey wrapped it's tail around the flagpole
To see its arsehole through a knothole
Oh the monkey wrapped its tail around the flagpole
And the band began to play

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..
From: GUEST,Listener Robert in comments at page linked b
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 08:16 PM

Thanks, Sergeant Joe. Like all the other parents referenced above, Daddy sang only the first line, so I never knew the rest. The reason I'm thinking about it now is that Frankie Yankovic's instrumental "Saigon Sally", a recording of which was played tonight by DJ Stashu on "Dance With Me, Stanley" ( http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/90726 ) sounded like a bunch of variations of the "monkey-flagpole" passage of "National Emblem".

I hope you'll soon finish the lyrics to the whole piece. The opening passage obviously needs to parody lyrics from one of the 5 stanzas of "Star Spangled Banner", but the closing passage, who has any idea?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Dec 20 - 06:30 PM

I always heard:

Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around the flagpole,
It was ice-cold
Froze his asshole.

The tune was Stars and Stripes Forever.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..
From: PHJim
Date: 25 Dec 20 - 11:45 PM

Law & Order about 1:20

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around..
From: GUEST,Brian Ramsey
Date: 07 Jul 21 - 10:34 AM

The way I heard it up in Canada in the '40's:
Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around the flag pole
To feel the wind blow
Up his ass hole.