Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword

Subject: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 07 May 00 - 02:31 PM

John Tams character (Rifleman Hagman) sings to entrertain a group of children and their mothers around the campfire. The comic song he sings is really a fun song and I can only pick a few words out from the video. My children are constantly bugging me to learn all the words and now the admiral is too! Please help. Can anyone provide me with the complete lyrics..Yours, Aye. Dave

Touch my head
thats my share
Thats my louse trap
And you can plat there

Louse trap, lookers out, snotter box
Chimney chops, breast plate, N'apple stringer
thigh a thacker, knee a nacker, toe a tripper
I love my dear, the more I love my lover draws near

Touch her on the arm
Thats my dare
Thats my-----?
And we can play there

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: wildlone
Date: 07 May 00 - 03:40 PM

I Touched her on the toe.

I touched her on the toe, that's my share
Thats my toe-a-nack and you can play there
Toe-a-nacker, tripper-up, I love my dear
The more I loved my nigger drawed near.

I touched 'er on the knee, thats my share
That's my knee-a-nack and you can play there
Knee-a-nacker, toe-a-trip, I love my dear
The more I loved my nigger drawed near.

I touched her on the thigh, thats my share
That's my thigh-a-thack and you can play there
Thigh-a-thacker, knee-a-nacker,
toe-a-trip, I love my dear
The more I loved my nigger drawed near.

4 ***** Funny thing
5 Navvel Navvel string
6 Breast Breast plate
7 Chin Chinner chops
8 Mouth Chotter box
9 Snout Snotter box
10 Eyes Lookers out
11 Head Louse trap

This is the version that the Yetties used to sing.
you will have to alter the words to make it PC, but never mind some of these old trad songs are like that.
Cheers me dears, dave.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: GUEST,Dave (the ancient mariner at work)
Date: 07 May 00 - 06:29 PM

Cheers Wildlone... I will change the words I always do (many years of practise LOL) I even have to be carefull singing some hymns for the same reason. Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: GUEST,Dave Hart...New Zealand
Date: 04 Nov 13 - 08:28 PM

These are the lyrics that I still sing, from a "Yetties" vinyl album.

Some of them have a bit of licence attach to them, which makes them scan & rhyme. I hope they help. Best...Dave

I TOUCHED HER ON THE TOE                The Yetties

I touched her on the toe, that's my share,
That's my toe-a-knack & you can play there.

Toe-a-knack a trip-er-up, I love my dear,
The more I loved, my knicker drawed near.

I touched on the knee, that's my share,
That's my knee-a-knack & you can...etc

Knee-a knack a toe-a-trip, I love my dear, the more I loved...etc

I touched her on the thigh, that's...etc
That's my thigh-a-thack & you can...etc

Thigh-a-thack a knee-a-knack, a toe-a-trip, I loved...etc

I touched her on the whoo...(draw breath in), that's my share,
That's my funny thing & you can...etc.

Funny thing a thigh-a-thack...etc

I touched her on the navel, that's...etc.
That's my navel-string & you can...etc.

Navvel-string, a funny thing, a thigh-a-thack...etc

I touched her on the chest, that's...etc
That's my breast-plate & you can...etc

Breast-plate, navvel-string, a funny thing, a thigh-a thack...etc

I touched her on the chin, that's...etc.
That's my chin-er-chops & you can...etc.
Chin-er-chops, breast-plate, Navvel string, a funny thing...etc

I touched her on the snout, that's...etc.
That's my snotter-box & you can...etc.
Snotter-box, chin-er-chops, breast plate, navel string...etc.

I touched her on the eyes, that's...etc.
That's my lookers-out & you can play there.

Lookers-out, snotter-box, chin-er-chops, breast-plate...etc.

I touched her on the hair, that's...etc
That's my louse-trap & you can...etc

Louse-trap, lookers-out, snotter-box, chin-er-chops, breast-plate, navel-string, a funny thing, a thigh-a-thack a knee-a-knack, a toe-a-trip, I loved my dear. The more I loved my knicker drawed near.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 13 - 06:12 AM

In their 1971 Songbook, the Yetties say that they collected the song from Walt Watts, a regular at the Digby Tap, Sherborne (Dorset) in 1968. They added that 'after a few cups of cider Walt will stand up and give a rewndering of this song, usually getting more attention from the customers than we ever do.'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: GUEST,JB-used2B3
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 02:35 AM

Don't know this movie, but I heard a version of this funny cumulative song in England, back in '79. Supposedly, someone would trick a pretty young thing into standing up on top of a stool, and then would point to the body-part being sung about! (Don't know that it ever happened this way, but it makes a good story!)
"Touched her on the toe; that be m' share; that be m' toe-tapper, n' you can play there. Toe-tapper (fill in more of the cumulative song as you go)loves my dear; the more I loves, my dear draw near."

out-lookers, snot-box, chatterbox, chinny-chops, breast-plate, navel-stringer, funny thinger, thigh-thacker, knee-knacker, toe-tapper
(I'm probably missing some of the body-parts!)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 04:19 AM

I remember John Waltham (from Dorset) standing Graham O'Callaghan on a chair to sing this at the English National Festival in Sutton Bonington!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: GUEST,Ebor Fiddler
Date: 22 Jan 17 - 02:14 PM

I still sing this occasionally and find that a really loud CLAP instead of the offending word is very effective.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 05:26 PM

What do people sing now instead of Nigger Draw near?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: gnomad
Date: 17 Dec 20 - 08:47 AM

Have just re-checked the DVD, JT sings 'Lover draw near' which makes metric sense, and certainly more normal sense than 'Nigger', which I have never heard.

That said, the only singer I know sang the song always sang 'Nipper' (as in small child) AFAI can recall; still doesn't really make sense, but as close as seems likely. Certainly more probable than JT singing 'nigger' which I doubt, even 20+ years ago.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: cnd
Date: 17 Dec 20 - 11:28 AM

"Nigger" doesn't make much sense in this context to me either. You're best off just finding a word that has the same number of syllables and rhymes.

The first thing that came to mind for me was neighbor (pronounced "ney-ber" and not "ney-bore"), though I'm sure other words could work.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: Anglo
Date: 19 Dec 20 - 04:12 PM

I remember "Jinnie" in this context. I haven't heard the song for a long, long time, tho'. The Yetties were regulars at my local folk club in the early 60s.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Aug 21 - 02:46 PM

I know it's been a long time. But out of all those posts, nobody came close to answering the op question. I have been searching for the answer for some time myself. the series vs is such a snippet that it doesn't give much info to search for. The answer is "That's my Share". Traditional song. But it looks like it was first curated by Peter Kennedy. Add his name to the title and it gets you well on your way.

I won't add anything to the off-topic "Far Away" conversation because anyone who would ask the original question already knows everything there is to know about the most excellent title song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song From the movie Sharpes Sword
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 21 - 05:56 AM

When I heard this in Fagan's at Sheffield, the lyric was '...lover my dear. The more I love her I never draw near'.