Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 12:23 PM

Nellie the nun
Never been done
Queen of all the virgins
Isn't it a pity she's only one titty to feed the baby from
The poor little bugger he's only one sucker to have his dinner from
Never go swimin with bow legged wimmin and dive between their legs......

Sung to Blaze Away

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 19 - 08:00 PM

My grandfather always sang it as 3 verses

“I love to go swimming
With bow legged women
And swim between their knees

If you know any ladies
That want any babies
Then send em along to me

Go home to your mother
You red headed bugger
You don’t belong to me

;)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Apr 17 - 03:51 PM

Maybe not anymore, frogprince, now that Jacqui made an honest man of Kendall.... ;-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Apr 17 - 01:29 PM

Joe, you must be mistaken; I'm sure Kendall would never sing anything so risqué !    : )

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Apr 17 - 10:09 PM

I saw the title of this thread, and I immediately thought of Kendall Morse. But lo, the thread has 46 messages and no mention of Kendall Morse. Isn't this one of his greatest hits?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST,Joedaddy
Date: 09 Apr 17 - 09:58 PM

I also heard partial version in movie w/Burt Reynolds & Clint walker (western) in which they were trying to recover gold lost during war between the states .I believe Burt sang it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: PHJim
Date: 15 Mar 12 - 11:45 PM

The only version I've heard is the one posted by frogprince on 04 Feb 08 at 10:52 PM. We used to sing it at scout camp.

I'm Popeye the sailor man,
I'm Popeye the sailor man,(We sang"I live in a garbage can")
I love to go swimmin' with barenaked women,
I'm Popeye the sailor man.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST,Jericho McCune
Date: 15 Mar 12 - 05:40 AM

Love this thread. Thanks for all the info, folks! My uncle taught me this song as a young boy and I've been wondering about it.

To clear up the inaccurate account of Drew Carey and the Drew Carey Show from JohninKansas: The Drew Carey Show was a popular show that ran for 9 years and over 200 episodes in the US. It had absolutely nothing to do with That 70s Show, being as the former came out four years before the latter, not the other way around as you've been told. Although the last few years fell flat, it was consistently in the top 25 television shows during years 2 through 5. It was set in Cleveland, Carey's hometown, and helped a lot of people launch their careers.

Craig Ferguson, the Scottish comedian, got his American break on the show. Other show costars are still on television, most noticeably on Cougar Town (Christa Miller) and Two And A Half Men (Ryan Stiles).

Drew Carey is also a philanthropist and has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to local libraries, something those of us from his home state are proud of. Additionally, he's an award-winning comedian and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

When he has the time he promotes soccer to an American audience by working as a photojournalist for the US Soccer Team. He is also beginning to focus on advocacy journalism, for which he's also won awards.

The best thing about him? He's not from Kansas.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST,The Pondering Pundit
Date: 28 Jan 12 - 03:55 PM

It seems to me there's a mix going on hear. This was a party song in my college days (1948-52)University of Maine.

Whopsie doodle, I'm off my noodle.
I don't wear trusts any more.
My rupture's gone. My rupture's gone.

I love to go swimmin with bowlegged wimmin
And dive right between their legs.
My rupture's gone. My rupture's gone.

Today is the day the give babies away
With a half of pound of tea.
The tea is no good and the babies are wood
My rupture's gone. My rupture's gone.

After raising enough steins to dear old Maine, we didn't care if things didn't seem to "fit tight."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: Jack Campin
Date: 04 Sep 11 - 08:24 PM

Maybe this guy's sexual preference deserves a mention in the same song?

Man accused of having sex with pool raft had also violated inflatable pumpkin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST,Molly
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 10:54 AM

my sister is an awesome reference librarian and found it. The original tune is "Blaze away", a march, ca 1900, that was popular during WWII

"I love to go swimming to bow-legged women
and dive between their legs.
as I go under
it sounds like thunder
and smells like rotten Eggs!"

"I love to go swimming with bowlegged women
and dive between their legs,
they're round in the middle and shaped like a fiddle...."

"I love to go swimmin' with bow legged women
and dive between their thighs.
As I surface I know I did good below
by the satisfied look in their eyes."

"I love to go swimming with bow legged women
and swim between their knees.
I know its a sin but I always have a grin..."

"I love to go swimming with bowlegged women
and swim between their knees
and lay on my back and look at up their crack
and do whatever I please..."

"I love to go swimmin' with bow legged wimin
and swim between their knees.
If you know any ladies that want to have babies,
then send them down to me,
for this is the day we give them away
with half a pound of cheese [or tea].."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST,Chip
Date: 23 Jul 11 - 02:10 PM

Let's go swimmin' with the bare naked women
and dive between their knees
today's the day they give babies away
for half a pound of tea

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 12:32 AM

According to my husband it goes like this....

I love to go swimming with bowlegged women
and swim between their knees
and lay on my back and look at up their crack
and do whatever I please...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jun 10 - 10:49 PM

When I get a little drunk (like now) the song always goes

I Love to go swimming with bow legged women
and swim between their knees.
I know its a sin but I always have a grin..


And that is where memory fails...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST
Date: 15 May 10 - 05:45 PM

My father always sang

"I love to go swimmin with bow legged women
and dive between their thighs.
As I surface I know I did good below
by the satisfied look in their eyes."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged...
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 09:39 AM

I first heard this in a Marx Brothers movie, I believe it was "A Night at the Circus" so I never heard the bawdy version. How can nobody have the lyrics, I guess I have more searching to do.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged.
From: GUEST,Kevin Reichenbach
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 09:04 AM

Guys, I too have been going crazy with this song over the years. My mother sang it when I was young. Even as I obtained the enlightenment of adulthood, she would stop and hum the rest driving me batty. I would poke and prod her but to no avail. I also heard it on MASH sung by Col Potter in shower. This is how my mother sang it...

I love to go swimming with bowlegged women
and dive between their legs,
they're round in the middle and shaped like a fiddle....

and of course this is where she would always stop telling me it's much to dirty to finish. Thanks Mom.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 08:23 AM

Here's a midi file of BLAZE AWAY, a march by Abe Holzmann, from 1901. I believe the opening theme of this march is used as the tune for "I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged women...."

The same tune is also used (or can be used) for "Today is the day they give babies away with a half a pound of tea....," and maybe some other parodies.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST,Dime44
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 05:27 PM

To answer a couple questions on here.   Drew carey lived in Cleveland.   And thats where I first heard the song.   It just went over and over again sayin... "I love to go swimmin with bow legged women. And swim between their legs, HEY! Swim between their legs, HEY! ...repeat."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST,Pandora
Date: 18 Nov 09 - 11:37 PM

I love this song, and I had always thought there was more to it, as I roamed aimlessly through the internet looking for the rest of it, I found other souls apparently fruitlessly searching for it as well.

It's one of my happy songs, right up there with "Rye Whiskey" and "Bom Bom da du le ah they took my pants away!" ...:D

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Sep 09 - 06:44 PM

"Rapaz Band"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST,Finster
Date: 23 Sep 09 - 02:44 PM

Try the tune "Repaz Band" from 1920 - in MIDI file. If you're old enough, you heard it at the circus. Completely different words.

http://www.pianorollmusic.com/doesigns/midifiles/PDfiles/QRS-1140_RepaszBand%281920%29_eRollMIDI.mid

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST,rocket
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 11:07 AM

"My dad used to sing the same song, and had another verse which went:

Aint it a pity
She's only one titty
To feed the baby with...."

Reminds me of a lymerick:

There once was a lady begat
Triplets named Nat, Tat and Pat.
'Twas fun in the breeding,
But hell in the feeding,
There wasn't a spare tit for Tat.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST,shmoo
Date: 03 Mar 09 - 09:40 AM

My dad used to sing the same song, and had another verse which went:

Aint it a pity
She's only one titty
To feed the baby with....

Nice.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST,MrMojo
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 08:43 PM

The 2009 movie Coraline uses "smimming with bow-legged women" in the Spink And Forcible trapeze sketch. I might have to wait for the CD to see how they wove it into the skit. I'd love to have more that one verse from this little old treasure.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:28 PM

Brain cramp: That's "Occidental." I knew that....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 11:22 AM

Boy, does that bring back memories. I once had an Explorer Scout leader, circa 1954, who sang that song on camping trips, much to the chagrin of other adult leaders. He said he had learned it while attending Oxidental College, in Los Angeles area. It might even date back to vaudeville days, from what he told us.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Ref
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 09:00 PM

Drew Carey's show was set in Cleveland, which is hard to mistake since Cleveland is a recurrent theme. He does portray a middle manager with a boss at first unseen but then fired and replaced by Craig Ferguson. His nemesis is the boss's secretary Mimi. His two closest friends are idiots portrayed by Dietrich Bader and Ryan Stiles. I lost interest after finding out that Carey was a raving republican in real life and I started seeing political themes in the show. At first it was quite funny, as Bader and Stiles were hilarious and Carey didn't yet think of himself as important. Carey is one of those unfortunate comics in whom depression and anger are the basis for a lot of his humor. It's somewhat ameliorated by his admirable loyalty to his friends and colleagues in the business, like Kathy Kinney (Mimi)who might not otherwise have had much in the way of acting careers.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 08:10 PM

I've always sung:

I like to go swimmin
with bow-legged women
and swim betwinxt their legs!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: and e
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:15 PM

The march was popular during WWI (not WWII). There is a song "Isn't it a Pitty She's Only One Titty" that uses the same tune.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: and e
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:14 PM

The tune used on MASH and on the Drew Carey show is "Blaze Away" a march, ca 1900, that was popular during WWII. I have been told that the phrase "bowlegged women" was a euphemism for "bare naked women".   The song just repeats and repeats.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:59 PM

Unbelievable. I LOVE THIS SONG. I've loved it all my life. Well, most of my life. Let's not get hysterical....I just Googled it for the hell of it...and got here.   I, too, first heard it when Col Potter sang it on MASH, and was instantly, utterly smitten by it -- I mean I was...beSOTTED with the song -- and have been singing it ever since.

but only when I am truly, truly happy.

There are only two songs that I know of that you simply cannot stay in a bad mood or get depressed while singing them. This is one of them. The other one is, "That's Why the Lady is a Tramp." I mean it -- try it some time. Just TRY and sing a big Sinatra finish to "That's Why the Lady..." badda bada badaaaaaah...THAT'S why the lady...baddoo badoooooo....THAT'S why the Lady/

IS/

a tramp.."

plunk

         plunk

                                 plunk

                                       plunk.


wahwahwahwahhhhhhhhh...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 10:52 PM

The only version of this I had ever heard before was:

I'm Popeye the sailor man, I'm Popeye the sailor man;
I love to go swimmin' with barenaked women,
I'm Popeye the sailor man.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 12:53 PM

For the record, and for when this thread pops up again in four or five years, the only lyric at davetnova's link (04 Feb 08 - 09:44 AM) is as shown in the first post of this thread. It doesn't appear to be the same one previously linked, as the new one is a solo semi-performance.

John

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST,davetnova
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 09:44 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTrJMWak5es

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:11 AM

In the US, Drew Carey was best known for the "Drew Carey Show," which was a sort of late night (near prime time?) soap opera in which he played a middle-manager sort (kind of a Dilbert) at a large department store in Milwaukee(?) or maybe it was Philadelphia(?).

Principal antagonists on that show included his "manager" (the pointy-haired boss) who was "very British" with no comprehension of management, the secretary to pointy-haired boss also known as "fat broad," an incredibly "evil" b***h who married his idiot brother, a couple of blue-collar "intellectually challenged" friends, and of course one or two attractive good hearted semi-lovers with whom he was "Dilbertish-successful." Story lines centered on swilling beer.

The show was originated to pick up on the "genre popularity" of the semi-hit "That 70s Show" which is another show that most outside the US, or any who actually watch TV in the daytime, will never have heard of.

Recently Carey was picked up as the new host for the long-running lowestcommondenomenator daytime show "The Price Is Right" where he's generating lots of yawns. The show will quite probably disappear and go back to reruns with the previous hosts as soon as the writers settle their strike.

His characteristic style implies he'd rather be on "Prairie Home Companion."

He's written a couple of (perhaps slightly semi-biographical) short novels that three or four people may have read, and pretends to be an "ordinary guy(?)" who is "really something of an intellectual(??)" "feigning(?) illiteracy" for the entertainment value. It's difficult to tell which is the real Drew, and which is the role, indicating at least moderate talent at portraying/implying what he isn't(?).

BUT ON THE ORIGINAL SUBJECT: The video that was linked has now disappeared, and nobody posted the lyric used there. ($@#%!)

John

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 05:41 PM

Drew Carey is known in the UK if you watch obscure Digital TV channels where they show re-runs of 'Whose line is it anyway', the American version. Drew is the chairperson, the part taken in the UK by Clive Anderson.

What the hell else he's ever done is a mystery to me.

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 04:32 PM

My Dad used to sing this...

I love to go swimming to blow-legged women
and dive between their legs.
as I go under
it sounds like thunder
and smells like rotten Eggs!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 05:36 PM

You can download a wav file of a drunken chorus singing this song; now, can someone tell me who Drew Carey is or was?

bowleggedwomen

LFF

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Gypsy
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:22 AM

Gotta be support groups! Heaven knows there are for everything else ;O

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Gern
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 09:14 AM

Colonel Potter sang this song in one of his less-than-lucid moments on MASH, and it was indeed "bowlegged" women ... "and swim between their legs." As to whether Harry Morgan is a folkie, let someone else start that thread. Can't help wondering about Spaw's discovered websites on this topic. Are there now support groups for bowlegged women? Or has this song launched some sites by dedicated fetishists?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Gypsy
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 09:19 PM

Ah, Spaw, i figured you would find this question sooner or later. Grandpa went to his rest over a decade ago. Sinsull, i wait with bated breath your brothers memory.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 09:06 PM

I've been searching the web a bit to no avail outside of finding info on it being a common toast and a lot of references to "Jaws" because Robert Shaw says it. I did find a few "interesting" sites while searching "bowlegged women" on the iNBC engine!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 08:42 PM

Sorcha - my brothers taught me bow-legged. Popeye was a randy kind of guy! And yes, I have heard the "swim between their knees" thing. My brother will know.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 08:41 PM

Irecall just about as much as you do from my Dad, but typically he only knew a little bit (or my Mom wouldn't let him sing more). His version went "DIVE between their legs" but that ain't too different!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Gypsy
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 08:34 PM

Well, as i recall, the lyrics that grandpa sang were a little more explicit. Must be a thing from the merchant marines.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 08:31 PM

I'm Popeye the Sailor man,
I live in a garbage can.
I love to go swimmin' with baldheaded wimmen'
I'm Popeye the Sailor man, (toot toot)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Gypsy
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 08:13 PM

Thanks, Sorcha, a good start indeed. Popeye must have been more ribald than i remember! ;o

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 07:58 PM

I learned it as "baldheaded woman" and it was a part of Popeye the Sailor Man........that's all I know.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged
From: Gypsy
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 05:57 PM

Aw, c'mon, i know that this isn't exactly pc, but it's driving me nuts. Someone, somewhere, must know this one.

Subject: I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged wim
From: Gypsy
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 02:41 PM

Okay, this is not exactly a meaningful classic. But me seafaring grandpa used to sing it, and the dratted thing is running thru me head. Help, what are the rest following:
I love to go swimmin'
with bowlegged wimmin
and swim between their knees
and swim between their knees
Please, get this one out of my head!