Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 10:34 AM

A boy stood on a burning deck
Playing a game of cricket
The ball shot up his trouser leg
And hit his middle wicket

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,Agonist
Date: 12 Aug 09 - 06:28 AM

I remember this from a book my father had (about 60 years ago):

The boy stood on the burning deck,
He stood upon his head,
Because his arms and legs were off,
He waved his hands and said,

My name is Norval
On the Grampian hills the village smithy stands,
The smith a mighty man
Was wrecked on the pitiless Goodwin sands,

And by him sported on the green,
His little grandchild Wilhemene,

And we rushed to the signal rockets,
Lets fire them quick we cried,

And the good Abbot of Atherbrethock
Plunged headlong into the tide.

Now who will stand on either hand and guard the bridge with me,
Aboard the schooner Hesperus that sails the wintry sea,

I and two more to help me,
Will keep the foe in play,

For I'm to be Queen of May mother,
I'm to be Queen of May.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 12 Aug 09 - 04:55 PM

One verse I remember from a local tar:

The boy stood on the burning deck,
The Skipper by the binnacle.
The First Mate, bein' a randy sort,
Grabbed him by his pinnacle.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,PJS
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 04:57 AM

The first version I ever heard was when I was ten years old, in 1968:

The boy stood on the burning deck
The deck was made of glass
He did a double somersault
And landed on his arse

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Apr 10 - 03:39 PM

The boy stood on the burning deck,
holding onto his dick.
Now he wished he'd held the towel,
he feels such a prick.
:)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,lolpots
Date: 04 May 10 - 04:04 AM

the boy stood on the burnind deck,
having a drink stout,
he tipped his drink onto the fire,
and the flames went out.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,2mins past 10PM 1977 BBC R2
Date: 03 Jun 10 - 12:30 AM

The boy stood on the burning deck
he waved to all the dockers
he waved to his girl, she was known as Shirl
the one with the great big knockers.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,GordonHoward97
Date: 13 Feb 11 - 06:43 PM

The way I heard it from my father was

The boy stood on the burning deck,
Relief ships blew their horns.
But he could not go because
The heat had popped his corns.

That one is unique, he may have made it up.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 02:47 PM

The boy stood on the burning deck,

F**king idiot!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 14 May 11 - 04:17 PM

I remember The Skipper starting one of the versions where the boy's feet are filled with blisters on some episode of Gilligan's Island. For some reason it popped into my head today, and I decided to find out where that came from. Now I know. Got to love the Web.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,Steve Connor
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 06:01 AM

The boy stood on the burning deck
The fire, he couldn't stop it
He had a Bounty on his head
A Mars bar in his pocket

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 07:56 PM

My dad used to do one that started " The boy stood on the burning deck,", and then went on with something about a cake of Ivory soap floating him ashore.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,Roger Crosthwaite
Date: 15 May 12 - 01:15 AM

The boy stood on the burning deck
When all but he had fled
And a staggering pice of insight
Was flowing through his head
When the flame of truth hits the ship of state
And the tides of time are turning
They tend to blame the captain
When the ship is what is burning

By Aussie cartoonist Bruce Petty, on the political demise of prime minister William McMahon

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Feb 13 - 08:10 AM

The boy stood on the burning deck
Without a single neighbour,
He said I'm only in this mess
Because I voted Labour.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,Nigel Crouch - Tommy Cooper Fan
Date: 08 May 15 - 04:46 PM

The dog stood on the burning deck,

It was a hot dog

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 May 15 - 09:24 AM

The boy stood on the burning deck,
The flames 'round him did roar;
He found a bar of Ivory Soap
And washed himself ashore.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: Lighter
Date: 11 May 15 - 07:12 PM

Has anyone read the entire poem by Felicia Hemans (1827)?

Worthy of ridicule. Worthy of Jessie Pope too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Sep 15 - 01:01 AM

My father's version...

The boy stood on the burning deck,
The lifeboat honked it's horn,
But alas the poor boy could not move,
For the fire had popped his corns.

He was a captain in the merchant marines during WW2

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,Seyom Derf.
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 02:42 PM

The boy stood on the burning deck,
Waving to passing ducks.
"I wish I'd joined the RAF
This being a sailor sucks!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,R
Date: 03 Nov 15 - 05:06 AM

The boy stood on the burning deck
Selling peas a penny a peck
Did he wash his dirty neck?
No did he heck.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,Jane
Date: 13 Nov 15 - 11:06 AM

Anyone else heard this version:

The boy stood on the burning deck
Shelling red-hot peas.
One fell down his trouser leg
And paralysed his knees

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: GUEST,richard
Date: 04 May 18 - 05:44 PM

The boy stood on the burning deck,
He stood upon his head,
Because his arms and legs were off,
“It’s rather hot”, he said.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Casabianca: boy stood on the burning deck
From: and e
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 10:18 PM

The boy stood on the railroad track,
The train approaching fast --
The boy stepped off the railroad track
And let the train go past

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The boy stood on the burning deck,
His ass toward the mast,
And vowed he wouldn't budge an inch
Till Oscar Wilde has passed.

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From The Canfield Collection, [undated (c1927)].

See online here:

https://archive.org/details/1926canfieldcollection/page/15/mode/2up