Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: Nigel Parsons Date: 08 Jun 02 - 09:37 AM The arrangement used by 'The Scaffold' which topped the UK charts in 1968, can be found Lily The Pink here. |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: Hrothgar Date: 08 Jun 02 - 06:46 AM And there's one about "Grandma's Lysol" that is related. The chorus goes:
Let's hear it loud and strong for Grandma's Lysol The verses are fairly similar to those in "Lydia Pinkham." |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: GUEST,Duda_64@hotmail,com Date: 07 Jun 02 - 08:12 PM Susan, most of the replies don't know what the words really are. I have a recording of "Bawdy Songs and Bar- Room Ballads" by Oscar Brand. Was foryunate to see/hear him 'live' in '57. His concert was at S.U.N.Y @ Farmingdale L.I. so his songs were not as 'risque' as his album. The churus to "Lydia Pinkham" is; " So let us drink, drink, drink to Lydia Pinkum, Pinkum, Pink, and her love for the human race. She invented a VEGETABLE Compound and the papers published her face. Want more.... I'll try to figure out how. duda_64 (252) 946-2123 |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Jun 02 - 05:40 PM None of these versions rings a bell, and I know I grew up listening to a song about Lydia Pinkham's pills. I'll have to think about this, see if I can find Dad's version. SRS |
Subject: Lyr Add: LYDIA PINKHAM From: JohnInKansas Date: 07 Jun 02 - 05:35 PM A Treasury of American Ballads: Gay, Naughty, and Classic edited with an Introduction and Notes by Charles O'Brien Kennedy, The McBride Co., New York, ©1954, First Edition, page 366. LYDIA PINKHAM Anonymous The fame of this obscure but enterprising woman of New England became nationwide. Her product still marches on. 1. Let us sing of Lydia Pinkham And her love for the human race: How she sells her veg'table compound, And the papers publish her face. 2. Mrs. Brown had female weakness; Couldn't have a child at all, Till she took some veg'table compound; Now she has triplets every fall 3. Oh, it sells for a dollar a bottle, Which is very cheap you see, And if it doesn't cure you She will sell you six for three. 4. Now she's dead and gone to Heaven, Mourned by all the human race; Still they sell her veg'table compound, And the papers publish her face. The American Songbag Carl Sandburg, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: Harvest Books Series, ©1927, ISBN 0-15-605650-X, notes: "Only two of the many verses of this song are presented here. As a satire the piece has its points and touches more than the surface of current life, manners and morals." The two verses given are the first and third from Kennedy above. Sandburg includes a "piano/lyric score" in 9/8 time, but it does not "scan well" with the lyric given. Click to play Sandburg TuneVolume II, Folk Song Encyclopedia, Jerry Silverman, ©1975, Chappel & Co, dist Hal Leonard, has the same first verse, uses the Kennedy third verse as the second, and a modified third verse, 3. Mrs. Jones, she had no children, Though she loved them very dear. So she bought some vegetable compound, Now she has them twice a year. Silverman gives a tune, in 3/4 time, with guitar chords. The "vulgar" version posted - From: Bob Landry 03-Jun-97 - 06:44 PM is from: A Book of Vulgar Verse, "by A Man About Town," ©1981 Checkerbooks, Inc, Toronto, dist by Book Sales, Inc, Secaucus N.J., ISBN 0-89009-411-X (in my copy). John |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: GUEST,roz@brooklyn.cuny.edu Date: 07 Jun 02 - 12:04 PM Please email me the original version, so I can sing it to my grandchildren. Thanks Roz |
Subject: Lyr Add: LYDIA PINKHAM From: GUEST,ap of morristown Date: 24 Aug 01 - 11:51 PM LYDIA PINKHAM
Oh we sing we sing we sing of Lydia Pinkham
Mrs. Smithe had bladder trouble
Mrs. Brown had baby trouble Lydia Pinkham was indeed an over the counter potion sold in pharmacies in the 1940's. It was probably invented by a snake oil salesman, was indeed high in alcohol content, and was used by menopausal women to relieve hot flashes etc. My mother was a user of the stuff! |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: dick greenhaus Date: 03 Jun 97 - 08:36 PM We always appreciate more verses. There IS a version (six verses) in the database. |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: Bob Landry Date: 03 Jun 97 - 07:58 PM I'll have to ask my buddy about the name of the book. I only copied some of the pages (for personal study only, of course) and forgot the title page. It make take some time as he is out of town for a while. Bob |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: Murray Date: 03 Jun 97 - 07:52 PM Another 2 verses and a variant:
Now Mr. Brown had a very small penis
Now Master Brown had very small knackers
Now Mrs. Brown had invisible bosoms The text given by Bob Landry is practically identical with that in Cray's book [1968 edition, page 56, with music], but not that first stanza. Where's it from? My text is out of the British collection "More Rugby Songs" [London: Sphere Books, 1968], page 105. Another song [clean] that is similar was recorded way back on the flip side of a comedy record called "It's in the Book", being a parody of a hellfire sermon, the text examined being "Little Bo-Peep", and the song was presented as a good ol' gospel song. Very funny, I thought at the time. [I seem to remember this mentioned on another thread...] Words included [I THINK this is accurate]:
Little Herman and Cousin Sherman |
Subject: Lyr Add: LYDIA PINKHAM From: Bob Landry Date: 03 Jun 97 - 06:44 PM OK, Vissjoy, you asked for it. I took the liberty of ***ing out two words. You can use your imagination on those. The sentiments expressed are not mine, though I'll admit to a certain degree of prurient mirth. The lyrics are taken from a book that a friend of mine picked up at a garage sale. It's full of dirty little ditties that would make Oscar Brand proud.
LYDIA PINKHAM
Have you ever heard of Lydia Pinkham
CHORUS: So we'll sing, we'll sing, we'll sing of Lydia Pinkham,
Widow Brown, she has no children,
Willie Smith had peritonitis
Mrs. Jones had rotten kidneys;
Geraldine, she had no breastworks,
Arthur White had been castrated,
Walter Black was a bearded lady, |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: Bob Schwarer Date: 28 May 97 - 05:31 PM The Irish Rovers did a version of "Lily the Pink". Bob S. |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: Date: 28 May 97 - 02:05 PM I have a version that says "Most efficacious in every case" Frank Phillips |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: vissjpy@superiway.net Date: 28 May 97 - 01:28 PM Thanks for the non-crude lyrics. If you wish to keep this website "clean", perhaps you can e-mail the other version to me. Thanks. |
Subject: Lyr Add: LILY THE PINK From: Bob Landry Date: 28 May 97 - 11:33 AM Here's the tame version. I have to key in the other version and it's quite lengthy. Risqué is too mild a word for that one. LILY THE PINK CHORUS: Oh, we'll drink a drink, a drink, To Lily the Pink, the Pink, the Pink, The saviour of the human race. She invented medicinal compound. 'Twas deprecatious, in every case. Now here's a story, a little bit gory, A little bit happy, a little bit sad. Of Lily the Pink and, her medicinal compound, And how it drove her, to the bad. Well Ebeneezer thought, he was Julius Caesar, So they put him, in the home. And they gave him, medicinal compound. Now he's the Emperor of Rome. CHORUS Pretty Gregor, the opera singer Could break a glass with, his voice they said. Rubbed his tonsils with, medicinal compound. Now they break the glasses, over his head. Johnnie Hammer, had a t-t-terrible stammer, He could hardly, s-s-say a word. So they g-g-gave him medicinal compound, And now he's s-s-seen, but never heard. CHORUS Uncle Paul, he was very small. He was the shortest man in town. Rubbed his body, with medicinal compound, And now weighs only, half a pound. Lily died and, went up to heaven. All the church bells, they did ring. She took with her, medicinal compound, Hark the Herald Angels sing. CHORUS Almost identical to the version added to the DT Oct 97 - (click) |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: vissjoy@superiwat.net Date: 28 May 97 - 08:31 AM Since I heard this on the radio, I guess it's the radio version I want. However, now that I'm mature, maybe I could stand to see a risque version. Thanks. |
Subject: RE: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: Bob Landry Date: 28 May 97 - 12:12 AM Do you want Lily the Pink, a version that can be aired on commercial radio or Lydia Pinkham the version that makes me blush? (Dick - How crude are we allowed to be in this forum?)
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Subject: PINKHAM COMPOUND From: vissjoy@superiway.net Date: 24 May 97 - 04:50 PM When I was young(er), there was a song about taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Pills or Compound for PMS. The tune used was the one from the gospel hymn "I Will Sing of My Redeemer". Anyone still remember the words to this one?
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