Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune

Subject: RE: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: Cindy
Date: 08 Jul 04 - 07:02 PM

I sing a song occasionally to this tune called 'Strip Jack Naked'. Its slightly bawdy and about a chap who opens a strip club.

Verse 1
Our Jack was a right one, game for any fun
He got left some money by a relation
He had such ideas, and what do you know?
He opened a strip club in London, Soho

Chorus
Singing tune up your g string and sing out your thong.

Painful I know. It goes on for another 8 verses
I can post the rest of the lyrics if anyone is that desperate

Subject: RE: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: The Walrus
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 09:32 PM

Nigel,

Many years ago I learned a slightly different, longer version of 'Carolina the Cowpunchers' Whore' (It used to be heard belting out of the back of ACF 4 tonners at Annual Camp - Do cadets still travel in/sing from lorries I wonder):


Way down Alabama where the bull-slit lies thick,
Where girls are so pretty that babies come quick.
There in the middle, the queen if it all
Is Carolina, Carolina, the cow punchers' whore.

She's randy, she's handy, she shags in the street.
If ever you meet her, she's always 'on heat'
If you leave your flies open she's after your 'meat'
Carolina, Carolina, the cow punchers' whore.

One day I was riding out, down by the falls,
One hand on my pistol, the other, my balls,
When I saw Carolina a-using a stick
Instead of the end of a cow puncher's prick.

I carressed her, undressed her and laid her down there,
I parted the tresses of curly brown hair,
I inserted the penis of my trusty horse
And then there began such a strange intercourse.

Faster and faster and faster it seemed
'til at length Carolina rejoyced with a scream,
But alas, Carolina, my horse did 'backfire'
And shot poor Carolina straight into the mire.

There lay Carolina, all covered in muck,
She stood up and said "What a glorious F**k",
Took two paces forward, fell dead on the floor,
And that was the end of the cow-puncher's whore.


Any Use?

Walrus

Subject: RE: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: Jim McLean
Date: 20 Jul 04 - 05:25 PM

Reagan rhymes with Fagin (Dickins), Lagan rhymes with shaggin' (D H Lawrence.

Subject: RE: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: GUEST,Feebar
Date: 24 May 05 - 06:40 PM

I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere that Nina Simone did a great comedy song about the NAACP to this tune...
All I can remember is:

Oh daughter, dear daughter, take warning from me
And don't you go march with the NAACP
For they'll rock you and roll you and get you into bed
And [something something] you'll wish you were dead

Singing too ral eye too ral eye too ral eye ay heee

And then there was something about the daughter being warned to carry a brick should any young man from the NAACP approach her...

...But before she had time to remember her brick
They were staging a sit-down on a nearby hay rick

Singing too ral eye etc.

Just thought i'd mention it!

Fee

Subject: RE: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: Compton
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:28 PM

I recall in olden times, Steve Bembow singing "I Don't Mind If I Do!"

Subject: RE: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: GUEST,Scotus (by the back door)
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:18 PM

Archie Fisher sang a song about the CND which is obviously a variant of the Nina Simone one (though I don't know which came first).

The Last Clydesdales by Archie Webster also uses the VahD tune - if anybody wants it I'll post the words.

Jack Beck

Subject: RE: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 25 May 05 - 03:46 AM

This one dates itself, the tune a slight Irish variant:

The queen has a daughter, the bold Princess Anne,
While she was out riding she met a young man.
His name it was Mark, a dashing young blade,
Of the face of a horse he was never afraid,

With me yah, yah, tooralay yah.

As they were a-riding through meadows and streams
He knew he was onto a good thing it seems,
Some new tricks at riding with hime she did find,
He was sometimes in front aye and sometimes behind

With me yah, yah, tooralay yah.

He popped her the question one night in the dark,
She could only say yes as she got off her Mark,
But weddings cost money as everyone knows,
So she told Mr. Heath and our wages he froze,

With me yah, yah, tooralay yah.

And so on. Men of No Popery if I remember roghtly.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: Tradsinger
Date: 30 May 05 - 04:03 PM

Also to the same tune we have "All jolly fellows that follow the plough" - well known in these parts.

My mate Charlie sings a cracking song to this tune called "The Back to Front Song" which starts:

'Tis seven years come muck-spreading, I forgets it quite well
A fair pretty maid in a cottage did dwell
Alone with her parents, she dwelt all serene
And her age was bright red and her hair seventeen.

You get the idea.

On the bawdy side, we have:

There was an old woman in Gloucester did dwell
The dirty old woman I knew her quite well

Which is a version of "Blinded by S**t".

By the way, Snuffy, tell me more about the Gloucester Molecatcher - is it the song I know as the (Manchester) Molecather?

Gwilym

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: Snuffy
Date: 31 May 05 - 08:41 AM

Gwilym,

I don't have the words to The Gloucester Molecatcher, but they're probably close to the Manchester one and the Wellington in the Digital Tradition. I've heard the Gloucester version sung to the Villikins tune fairly often by Bill Pullen, to whom further inquiries should probably be addressed.

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: Tradsinger
Date: 31 May 05 - 04:00 PM

Ah, I know Bill very well so I'll interrogate him on the subject!

Thanks and wassail to you.

Gwilym

PS send me a PM if you live within range of Gloucestershire. We'll meet up.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tu
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 09:44 PM

Now this song by the Corrigen brothers uses Villikens and his Dinah.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tu
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 23 Jan 09 - 09:57 PM

Cross-reference to the thread about the Corrigan brothers' song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tu
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 24 Jan 09 - 01:01 AM

A Lincoln/Hamlin campaign song from 1860, "Old Abe's Preliminary Visit to the White House", lyrics to which are posted here, was set to Villikins and his Dinah.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tu
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 10:41 PM

"The Liverpool Packet" has the tune, more or less, and "The Liverpool Judies" was sometimes sung to it as well.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Aug 11 - 10:05 AM

'The Deserter From Kent', in Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs, collected by Vaughan Williams from Mr H Burstow of Horsham in 1903, has not been mentioned above that I can see, although the Penguin Book note draws attention to the relationship of that song's tune to "the familiar 'Villikins' air, perhaps the commonest of all British folk-melodies".

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Aug 11 - 10:28 AM

Sorry ~~ correction to above: Deserter From Kent collected by Walter Ford from Mr Kemp, Elstead, Surrey, 1907.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Jul 14 - 05:45 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
From: Bert
Date: 12 Jul 14 - 12:22 AM

Don't tear it, don't tear it my old hairy muff
I've had it a long time and it's quite good enough
The inside is silky and the outside is rough
for the Lord's sake don't tear it my old hairy muff.

Also "Still I Love Him" is close enough to be a derivative.