Nice Songs Made Naughty

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: pavane
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 07:24 AM

Llewtrah's web site contains a large number of bawdy parodies as well as rugby songs. They are mostly a bit too crude for my taste though.

Don't have the URL to hand, and the automatic censor probably wouldn't let me find it here! But there are links to it in other threads.

I once heard someone sing 'The BOY from Ipanema'. Only changed a few words, but the whole song became totally different...

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 04:36 AM

Clint
that's like the "Between the sheets" addition to many songs.

Start off with "Rock of Ages"...

Robin

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 03:06 AM

When I was but a child. many years ago, some of the more daring fellers would sing "The Sheik of Araby" and add "with no pants on" at the end of every line. And snicker.

I don't know why they picked "The Sheik of Araby;" it was an old song even then, and the trick works with most anything. But it was clever then, and easy to remember.

clint

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 08:34 PM

Debowlderization.

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 07:23 PM

Wish I could remember the name of the lady at the Getaway who sang "Rubber Ducky" with it's own lyrics but made it into a blushingly suggestive torch song. Hilarious!

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 07:02 PM

Sometimes the bawdlerization pretty well takes over. I was astonished, a year or so ago, to discover that there was an original clean version of "Sweet Violets".

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 12:39 PM

Back in my college days when I worked for the Forest Service I was on a crew with some resourceful fellows. They changed many songs to suit their young and lustful natures. One in particular I remember, a popular song of the 1970s, I'll post a few original words I found at a performer's web site:

All I Have to Do is Dream/A Summer Song
Words and Music by B.Bryant/House of Bryant (BMI); Stuart,
Metcalf Noble/Rogers Music Ltd. CBS Unart Catalog (BMI)

When I want you in my arms
When I want you and all your charms
Whenever I want you
All I have to do
Is Dream... Dream Dream Dream

When I feel blue
In the night
When I need you
To hold me tight
Whenever I want you
All I have to do
Is Dream... Dream Dream Dream

etc.

What was the Forest Service variant? The only part I remember is
Cream Cream Cream. . .

SRS

Subject: Lyr Add: THE LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ (Wade Hemsworth)
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 11:36 AM

I swiped a technique from one of the cowboy poets -- sorry, I heard him about 20 years ago and I've forgotten his name, but I bet someone else will remember; he was opening for Riders in the Sky at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and he was wonderful!

Anyway, all he did was simple LEAVE OUT words (technically I think he hummed) to make the song seem naughty. He did a three-verse song about a woman, and by the time he got to the third verse it was nothing but humming.

This is not only hilarious, it's actually quite classy since you don't have to say anything raunchy.

Here is that effect applied to Wade Hemsworth's sweet and lovely Log Driver's Waltz, for instance. The original words are in the DT; here's my version (**** = silence, which I find more effective than humming):

THE LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ
(Wade Hemsworth)

If you should ask any girl from the parish around
What pleases her most from her **** to her toes,
She'll say - I'm not sure that it's business of yours,
But I do like to ***** with a log driver.

Cho: For he goes birling down a-down the white water;
That's where the log driver learns to **** ********.
It's birling down, a-down the white water;
A log driver's ***** pleases girls completely.

When the drive's nearly over, I like to go down
To *** all the lads while they work on the river.
I know that come evening they'll be in the town
And we all want to ***** with a log driver.

To please both my parents I've had to give way
And ***** with the doctors and merchants and lawyers.
Their manners are fine but their **** are of clay
For there's none with the ***** of a log driver.

I've had my chances with all sorts of men
But none is so fine as my lad on the river.
So when the drive's over, if he asks me again,
I think I will ***** my log driver.

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 08:47 AM

The "sneaker line" of the sort you're looking for is (or was some time back) a more or less standard thing in barbershop singing. Most of the trick lines were "naughty" at most, rather than outright obscene and nasty.

It's been many years since I was regularly in the company of active barbershoppers, but I can recall a late fifties SPEBSQSA convention in the mid fifties at which one of the favored quartets did a "zipped up" version of School Days. The first run through was straight, and in great harmoney, followed by a second pass with a number of "zingers" slipped in.

Sorry but about the only thing I remember for sure was the line:

"She wrote in my book, I love you true, when we were a couple of kids."

became:

"She wrote in my book, ...poignant pause ... I know-a-dirty-joke,
when ...etc.

Rather tame, I'm afraid, but I suspect the practice survives if you can find someone active in that tradition.

Down by the Old Mill Stream is another often done, in the "patter style" with interjected counter-lines.

Down by the old mill stream, where I first met you ...

becomes, usually with the high tenor doing the italicized bits:

Down by the old not the new but the old mill stream,
Where I first not second but first met you ....

The interjected patter lines were frequently "warped" into suggestive form, but I'm sorry, I can't remember a version to pass on at the moment.

Certainly the most "risque" zing was when another (or maybe the same first mentioned) quartet replaced the traditional ending tag "Shave and a haircut, four-bits...etc. with:

Sung by the whorehouse ... quartet
Have ya got a hard on ... not yet
Are ya gonna get one ... you bet
slowly and in full harmony It's sloooowly riiiisiiiing.

(note: high tenor modulates on last syllable)

John

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: Grab
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 08:11 AM

Is "bawdlerising" too obvious a name? :-)

The Digitrad has the very good dirty version of Teddy Bears' Picnic, which is highly recommended.

Graham.

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 07:56 AM

Servicemen the world over have been rewriting popular songs for Other Ranks bar renditions since Lord knows when. I had a FILTHY song in my rep for thirty years before I heard The Jack Hylton band record from 1934 of Poor Little Angeline.(origanally a tender love ballad)

If Bowdlerising is cleaning up a song there ought to be a word for the reverse process.

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: Splott Man
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 07:38 AM

On the British radio programme "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" they "edit" songs buy inserting a bleeper over innocent words, thus making ithem bawdy.

It works well with show songs

eg

All I want is a BLEEP somewhere
Far away from the cold BLEEP BLEEP
With one enormous BLEEP
Oh wouldn't it be luvverly?

Try it to Rolf Harris's Two Little Boys....

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: Midchuck
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 11:10 PM

"Redwing" is perhaps the ultimate classic example. Having learned the tune from my father's singing, I was approaching middle age before I learned it was anything but a dirty song.

My mother, to this day, is shocked by it, even played as a fiddle tune. Fortunately, she never listened to western swing much anyway.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: Celtaddict
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 09:33 PM

I have a singing friend who manages to bawdify any song, often by the simple but creative addition of the letter "s" as in
(Country Roads) All my memories gather round hers...
I first set my eyes on Sweet Molly Malone's...
   or maybe Sweet Molly's Malone...
and a broad assortment of "I held hers" and "my arms around hers" and such.

Subject: Nice Songs Made Naughty
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 09:25 PM

I don't know, there may be something along these lines in the forum, but I couldn't figure out how to search for it. "Bawdy songs" returns too many things, and I don't think "bawdieized" or "bawdyized" are words.

Anyway, I was wondering about songs that, innocent to start out with, you have "bawdyized" into a whole new song. For instance, we used to sing

Mrs. Brown I think you daughter's pregnant
Girls like her get pregnant all the time
Her belly's changed, she says that I'm at fault....
(I don't remember the rest, but it was along the same lines)

If the songs are there (and I'm sure they are), they should be collected into one thread.