I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs

Subject: I have lost my underwear
From: GUEST,The Connor Girls
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 10:15 PM

this is a song we learned as children, does anyone know this one?

Oh, I have lost my underwear,
I don't care, I'll go bare,
bye, bye blackbird.
they were very close to me,
tickly, Yee hee hee, bye bye blackbird.
If you should ever come across them,
would you please tell them that I lost them,
Oh, I have lost my underwear,
I don't care I'll to bare,
bye bye blackbird.....

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 11:03 PM

When I was a kid, we used to sing a parody to God Bless America.

God bless my underwear
My only pair
Stand beside them
And guide them

That is all of the song I remember from 55 years ago.

                                                    SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 01:21 AM

My mummy used to tell me if I thought naughty thoughts I would turn to stone...

I think I've started....

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 07:51 AM

During the 1940s in Ireland the Flour used in baking bread came in bags made from linen, a couple of these bags sewn together made many a good sturdy pair of knickers.
Printed on the Flour bags was the firms name along with their motto,"the early bird gets the worm" and this bird was a Blackbird, we would have teased the girls by requests to see their"Blackbird".
Although I don`t remember any rhyme relating to this.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 09:53 AM

Sandy Paton, on one of his and Caroline's kids' albums on Folk-Legacy, has a great song, "I Wonder Where's My Underwear". It's not the song you are asking about, but it might add to your song list (a set about underwear?). It is certainly a song worth learning. Kids like it.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 10:06 AM

Once I went in swimmin'
Where there were no wimmen
By the deep blue sea
Seein' no one there,
I hung my underwear
Upon a willow tree
Dove into the water
Just like Pharoh's daughter
Dove into the Nile--
Someone saw me there
Stole my underwear
And left me with a smile.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 10:10 AM

How does one do that? I wondered when I saw a pair of underpants next to a path in Fellsmere Park. But then I reflected: All it takes is a little good luck followed by a little bad luck.

I wish the best of luck to all the grownups on this thread.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Aug 04 - 01:11 PM

Connor Girls, yes I remember this from my girl guide campfire days, but we used to sing "bye, bye long johns" - a parody of Bye, Bye Blackbird.

I have lost my underwear
I don't care, I'll go bare
Bye, bye long johns

They were very dear to me
They tickled me, tee, hee, hee
Bye, bye long johns

How I miss that little trap door behind me
If you see it you'll know where to find me

I have lost my underwear
I don't care, I'll go bare
Bye, bye long johns

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 08:52 AM

GUEST, I have a variation of your third verse...

If you see that little trap door behind me
You will know exactly where to find me...


oh, and the big finish at the end, has the line reversed...

I have lost my underwear
I don't care, I'll go bear
Long johns... bye bye.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:03 AM

And another underwear song from my mother:

Rich girls wear ruffles on their pants
Poor girls wear them plain
If you don't wear none at all
You should be ashamed.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:57 AM

"Hi ho Silverware
Tonto lost his underwear.
Tonto say, "Me no care,
Lone Ranger buy me 'nother pair!"

An old rhyme learned in those dim dark days of childhood...........

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 10:00 AM

I see London
I see France
I see ________'s underpants!

The ultimate putdown among the 5 year old set in 19.....

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 04:46 PM

Well, in the 5-year-old set in Beverly Hills, CA, 1942, it was

Teacher, teacher, I declare,
I see ---'s underwear.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:56 PM

I must go down to the sea again
The lonley sea and the sky
I left my nickers and socks there
I wonder if they're dry.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Flash Company
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 05:40 AM

I left my hat in San Francisco,
My Umberella in Times Square
And in Alaska , where it snows,
I left my underclothes,
But as I had another pair,
I don't care!

Somrthing like that, anyway!

FC

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 06:00 AM

Lost Underwear!
Flash Company!

ROFL!

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Flash Company
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 09:19 AM

Foolestroupe:
OOH you are awful! But I like you!!

FC

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Cool Beans
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 10:31 AM

Rabbi Sol, the rest of "God Bless My Underwent" went...

From the washer,
To the dryer,
To the clothesline,
In the air,
God bless my underwear,
My only pair.
God bless my underwear.
My only pair.

(Nobody ever balked at the redundancy of the dryer AND the clothesline. Curious.)

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Jen M
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 11:35 AM

My son's Boy Scout troop avoided the redundancy by singing
From the washer,
To the dryer,
to the bureau,
To my rear.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 04:11 PM

Thank you Cool Beans for bringing back the memories. Those were the good old days when teachers still used to hit their students for mis-behaving in class. I may have forgotten the words, but I never forgot the beating I took for singing them back then. SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: GUEST,dustyrose
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 01:25 PM

In the song
Teacher teacher I declare, I see ---- underwear, might be pink, might be blue

That is all I know and its driving me crazy to find out the rest of that song.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 01:52 PM

In Minnesota, about 1952, it went like this:

God Bless my underwear, my only pair;
When I wore them, I tore them, in the seat of the Old Rocking Chair;
From the Bottom, to the middle, from the middle, to the top;
God Bless my underwear, my only pair,
God Bless my underwear, my oon - leee pair.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 02:42 PM

Thanks to you all!

~S~

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 06:33 PM

From "Frederick's of Woolloomooloo":

When it comes to underwire underwater underwear,
Just send a check to Freddy's, and get your gal a pair!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Splott Man
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 03:33 AM

Be I Barnstaple, be I buggery,
I comes up from Wareham.
That's where the girls wear calico drawers
And I knows how to tear 'em.

Benny Hill (of course)

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 06:19 PM

I was interested to read Big Jim from Jackson's post from 09 Aug 04 - 09:57AM about Tonto saying the "Lone Ranger buy me 'nother pair!"

In the mid 1990's in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area I collected what appears a current version of that Lone Ranger rhyme:

Batman & Robin
flyin in the air
Batman lost his underwear
Batman said "Me don't care.
Robin'll buy me another pair.


This rhyme still appears to recited with no accompanying motions.

I'm not sure if the children get that this rhyme supports the rumored homosexual relationship between Batman and Robin. Maybe I'm jsut reading that inference into this children's rhyme.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Azizi
Date: 28 Jun 05 - 06:51 PM

Way back in April 2005 Guest dustyrose wrote that she {he?} was going crazy trying to remember the rest of this rhyme:

"Teacher teacher I declare, I see ---- underwear, might be pink, might be blue"

-snip-

Maybe it's the name "dusty", but this line popped in my head when I finished reading that post:

"might be dirty just like you".

I vaguely remember "Teacher, Teacher I declare" from my childhood in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the 1950s.

Could this be the forgotten line or is this an example of the folk process at work?

I haven't a clue..

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Jun 05 - 07:31 PM

Then there is Fred Small's "Long Underwear" song with the great line, as I recall, about if you think removing underwear is nice, just think of the satisfaction you'll get by removing it twice!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 08:54 AM

Here's one:

Bedlam Boys (just the chorus)

Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys,
Bedlam boys are bonny,
For they all go bare and they live by the air,
And they want no drink or money.

Subject: Lyr Add: A BEGGIN' I WILL GO
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 09:26 AM

And another one (for the line "me backside can go bare"):

A BEGGIN' I WILL GO - [Trad. arr. Martin Carthy / Dave Swarbrick]

Of all the trades in England the beggin' is the best
For when a beggar's tired, he can lay him down and rest

Chorus (after each verse):
       And a-beggin' I will go
       And a-beggin' I will go

I've a pocket for me oatmeal and another for me salt
I've a pair of little crutches tha should see how I can halt

There's patches on me fusty coat and a black patch on me eye
But when it comes to tuppenny ale I can see as well as thee

Me britches they are no but holes but me heart is free of care
As long as I've me belly full me backside can go bare

I've been deaf at Duckinfield and I've been blind at Shaw
And many's the reet and willing lass I've bedded in the straw

There's a bed for me where'er I lie and I don't pay no rent
I've got no noisy looms to mind and I am reet content

I can rest when I am tired and I heed no master's bell
Ya men'd be daft to be a king when beggars live so well

Of all the trades in England the beggin' is the best
For when a beggar's tired, he can lay him down and rest

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Paul Burke
Date: 30 Jun 05 - 07:35 AM

Those afflicted by this sad loss should say a prayer to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost cossies.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 09:59 AM

I found these two rhymes on THIS wonderful thread of children's rhymes:

"Here are some of my memories from summer camp which I didn't see here:

Oh I wear my pink pajamas
In the summer when it's hot
And I wear my flannel nightie
In the winter when it's not
And sometimes in the spring
And sometimes in the fall
I jump between the sheets
With nothing on at all

Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep
Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep
Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep
With nothing on at all

and, to the tune of "God Bless America":

God bless my underwear
My only pair
Stand beside them
And guide them
Through the wear and the tear of the wash
From the washer
To the dryer
To the clothesline
In the air
God bless my underwear
My only pair

Kind of tame compared to Miss Susie, but apparently of some historical interest. One I never thought I'd forget but seem to have done just that is that school song to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic; can't remember if it was celebrating the last day of school or promoting arson or something even more malevolent.

Oh well; sometimes senior moments suck donkey droppings."

posted by Pushing Forty at April 9, 2004 [re-posted with permission from that site's members]

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: GUEST,Rachel
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:33 PM

Another underwear song: to the tune of the first verse of "dixie land"

I wish i had underwear made of cotton!
All my wool ones are itchy and rotten!
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Let me scratch!

I cant belive i still remember that...

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: GUEST,thurg
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 06:43 PM

sinsull says:

I see London
I see France
I see ________'s underpants!

The ultimate putdown among the 5 year old set in 19.....


I hate to encourage this type of filth, but, for the use of scholars only, I have to add the next verse:

Not too big,
Not too small,
Just the size of
Montreal!

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 08:48 PM

Azizi gave us this chorus:

Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep
Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep
Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep
With nothing on at all

The way I learned a chorus to that song was:

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, what's it to ya?
Glory, glory, wind blows through ya
When you jump right in between the sheets
With nothing on at all

I might add that in my misspent youth in Minnesota we always sang that song with a burlesque Scandihoovian accent. Thus, that chorus was sung like this:

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, vhat's it to ya?
Glory, glory, vind blows t'rough ya
Vhen you yoomp right in betveen da sheets
Vit nutting on at all!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: kids' song: I have lost my underwear
From: Rowan
Date: 08 Oct 06 - 11:36 PM

And the last line of Dave's chorus was often sung
"when she jumped between the lilywhite sheets
with nothing on at all"

Although I dare say several parodies have the same construction.

And, speaking of underwear, although it wasn't a chidren's song where I lived when I was a child (before I became a Child fan) there's Woad in the DT.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: kids' song: I have lost my underwear
From: Susan of DT
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 07:28 AM

From Brooklyn in the 1950s, an expansion of two of the above postings:

I see London
I see France
I see ____'s underpants
Are they white?
Are they pink?
I don't know
But they sure stink

Subject: RE: kids' song: I have lost my underwear
From: Mo the caller
Date: 09 Oct 06 - 08:05 AM

I was walking on the beach yesterday and we were wondering about a pair of lost knickers in the sand dunes (the theory was someone changed after paddling and forgot to take them home).
It brought to mind the Susie chant which my daughter heard at secondary school (so in the 80's). She claimed there were no actions or clapping done to it. A friend of mine was shocked to hear her 5 year old grand daughter recite it (early 90s I think).

Ooo ah, got no bra
Left my knickers in my boyfriends car.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: GUEST,omg
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 10:23 PM

THAT WAS REALLY DUMB.

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full;
One for the master,
And one for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane

         THATS ALL I REMBER WHEN I WAS AN CHILD!!!

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 10:29 PM

This thread was obviously refreshed for the benefit of Brittney Spears................

Spaw

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Deckman
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 11:18 PM

Let's NOT forget this gem:

"I Underwear My Baby Is Now?" (O.K. ... I'll looks for my hat)! Bob

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:19 AM

To the tune (probably obvious) of "The Tigger Song"

Ohhhhh The wonderful thing about knickers,
Is knickers are wonderful things.
The gussets are made out of cotton,
The sides are made out of strings.
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy,pouncy,
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun.
The most wonderful thing about knickers is,
They cover up your bum.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Scrump
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:58 AM

It was probably Arnold Layne :-)

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 02:12 PM

Uncle_DaveO, I just read that you wrote in your 08 Oct 06 - 08:48 PM
post that

"Azizi gave us this chorus:

Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep
Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep
Glory, glory what a wonderful way to sleep
With nothing on at all"

-snip-

For the record, I was quoting from a Octoblog poster who used the screen name "Pushing Forty".

It's been a while since I was pushing forty. And I'm much too modest a person to reveal on a public forum whether I think that sleeping with nothing on at all is a glorious, wonderful way to sleep.

;o}

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: melodeonboy
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 07:51 PM

This thread is pants!

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: melodeonboy
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 07:52 PM

Only joking! I'm enjoying it.

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Murray on Saltspring
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 08:35 PM

A variation of this gives the coy verse

Oh Sir Jasper, do not touch me

Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me

Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me,

As she slipped between the sheets with nothing on at all.

Tune is the chorus of 'John Brown's Body', of course; and the joke [such as it is] consists in the omission of the last word of the first 3 lines, then the two last words, and so on, till you get "Oh Sir Jasper!", "Oh Sir!" and finally "Oh!"

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 12:27 AM

"I have lost my underwear" was a song made up by David Graham of Christchurch New Zealand in the 1970s, to the tune of "Bye bye blackbird". The version given here is probably distantly derived from it, as there are lines that don't make sense here, but did make sense originally. It went -

I have lost my underwear, I don't care, I'll go bare.
Bye bye, long johns.
[You were always close to me], tickled me, tee hee hee!
Bye bye, long johns.
How I loved that little trapdoor behind me,
You all knew exactly where to find me.
I have lost my underwear, I don't care, I'll go bare.
Long johns, bye bye.

Not a hundred percent sure of the bit in square brackets, but think it's right.

pelliondance

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 04:11 AM

Underwear is for wimps

Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear
From: Megan L
Date: 03 Apr 08 - 05:23 AM

What is that rock doing in the corner and wheres foolstroupe thought he wis in here somewhere?