Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.

Subject: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Jun 99 - 06:57 AM

The last time I heard this song, I was on Fair Isle. It is sung to the tune of 'Yankee Doodle went to London' and this is all I know of it. It may be all there is?

I be Berkshire?
I, be buggery.
I comes up from Wareham
Where I know a girl, wears calico drawers
And I know's how to tear 'em

Subject: RE: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: PKD on Teesside
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 02:56 AM

I believe the song is called The Fly, and has a chorus

The fly, the fly - the fly be on the turnup - and woe be I the more I try - to keep fly off of turnup.

There are a lot of verses. The only one which springs to mind is:

Rich folk uses margarine - poor folks uses lard - my old man just spits on his - and shoves it up real hard

I don't write this stuff. I just pass it on.

Cheers

Subject: RE: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: PKD on Teesside
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 10:40 AM

While I think on,

Come into the garden Maud - And don't be so pertikular - We've tried it horizontal - Now let's try it perpendikular

By the way, what does "B/S quite welcome" mean ??

Cheers

Subject: RE: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: The Shambles
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 02:52 PM

It is one of those silly things we do here to try and keep everyone happy.

B/S is that smelly stuff that comes from the wrong end of cows and is used here to indicate that the thread may not be entirely devoted to things musical.

Subject: RE: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: Fadac
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 03:00 PM

In sea chanties, there's the "Good ship Venus"

-Fadac

Subject: RE: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 03:00 PM

Shambles ~~~~ I think that would be C/S.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: Bert
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 03:12 PM

Shambles, I think Cap't Bob is trying to start a bull and a cow.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 28 Jun 99 - 07:09 PM

You blame it on a bull and a cow? .
Well, how about a chicken? .
That's the source of C/S,.
And bats the source of guano. .

Yankee doodle, pick it up, .
Toss it in the compost, It'll make the roses grow, .
But it ain't for playin' hockey.
.

total lack of rhyme either an aesthetic statement or a sign of laziness. --seed

Subject: RE: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: Murray on Saltspring
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 02:13 AM

Shambles: That's all I've heard, I think, except that it's in slightly deeper dialect, i.e. "Be I Berkshire, be I buggery" etc. Whether it's a subterranean part of "The Turmet Hoein'," I don't know, but wouldn't be surprised.

Subject: RE: Help with bawdy song: B/S quite welcome.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 02:46 AM

As I was riding to the Fair
Along with Captain Wanker
I shagged his wife in the old back seat
But I forgot to thank her

Yanking doodle (Keep it up!) Yanking doodle (Dandy!) Yanking doodle (Nicely done- here, take this piece of candy)

Ok Catspaw...You've been holding out on us long enough. Let's hear it!