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23 Aug 99 - 05:26 PM (#107791) Subject: Oscar Brand's 'The Jolly Tinker' From: RWilhelm I am looking for the lyrics to "The Jolly Tinker" as recorded by Oscar Brand. It's different from any of the verisons in the DT database. Actually, I have everything but the last two lines of the chorus:
With his long john diddly whacker Any help would be appreciated. |
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23 Aug 99 - 06:54 PM (#107811) Subject: RE: Oscar Brand's 'The Jolly Tinker' From: Barbara Looking for a scrimmage Below the belly band
I have it in "Roll Me Over". do you need the rest of the words or confirmation of any others? And a scrimmage is what football players do when they pile up, did you know that? |
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23 Aug 99 - 10:08 PM (#107864) Subject: Lyr Add: THE JOLLY TINKER (Oscar Brand) From: Mungo THE JOLLY TINKER There was a jolly tinker and he hailed from France( x2) With his long john tiddledy whacker fiddle de whacker pants CHORUS: With his long john tiddledy whacker overgrown kidney cracker, looking for a shindy stack around the belly whang! There was a farmer's daughter coming from the ball (x2) She met the Jolly tinker leaning up against the wall (CHORUS) My darling, oh my darling oh my darling I love you (x2) She told the jolly tinker, just a haf a dollar'll do (CHORUS) And when the fun was over he shouldered up his load (x2) Brushed off his clothes went a-whistling down the road (CHORUS) Mother, oh, mother, I'm sad and I'm alone(x2) The tinker took his pleasure and he left me here to moan (CHORUS) Daughter, you're a ninny, for you left it all to chance (x2) Don't ever lay a tinker till he pays you in advance (CHORUS) I've been singing this one since the early 60's. The Oscar Brand song book says "Scrimmage) but the record clearly says "shindy stack." This colorful folk expression is from the term, "shindy" or "shindig," meaning a dance party--and is the name of the dance a couple are doing when one is stacked atop the other. Mungo Bob McElroy |
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24 Aug 99 - 09:23 AM (#108005) Subject: RE: Oscar Brand's 'The Jolly Tinker' From: RWilhelm Thanks Barara and Mungo. "shindy stack" is what I heard, I just couldn't make any sense of it. |
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03 Dec 13 - 05:01 PM (#3581174) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: Lighter The words I hear are (and have always been) "sidney stack," which mean nothing at all to me. Nor is "shindy stack" much better. Any theories? My impression is that Brand rewrote the words extensively - to make them less, not more, bawdy. |
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03 Dec 13 - 08:16 PM (#3581223) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: Joe_F The Tinker As sung at St Andrews University, 1958: A jolly old highland tinker was walking down the strand With his ballocks o'er his shoulder and his penis in his hand, With his jolly old kidney-wiper and his ballocks hanging free And a yard and a half of foreskin hanging down below his knee -- Hanging down (INCHES THICK!) Swinging free (WHAT A PRICK!) And a yard and a half of foreskin hanging down below his knee. [Alternative shouted parts to the chorus: (ALL AGLOW!) (WHAT A SHOW!) or (WHAT A BEAT!) (FEEL THAT HEAT!)] The lady of the manor was dressing for a ball When she saw the highland tinker pissing up against a wall. She wrote to him a letter, and in it she did say, "I would rather be fucked by you, sir, than my husband any day." The tinker got the letter, and when it he did read, His balls began to fester and his prick began to bleed. He went up to the manor, he strode into the hall. "God save us!" cried the butler, "He has come to fuck us all!" He fucked them in the parlor, he fucked them in the hall, But the time he fucked the butler was the finest fuck of all. When he fucked the butler, 'twas such a fucking farce -- For the heat of the fucking fucking fucking decomposed his arse. The tinker's dead and gone now; he's buried in St Paul's -- It took four-and-twenty bastards just to carry in his balls. Tune in solfa (scale is TdrmfsltD): s.mms.s.s.m.d.....d.D.D.t.l.s... l.t.d.d.t.d.l.s.m.s.l.r.r.m.r... s.s.mms.s.s.m.d...d.D.D.t.l.s... l.t.D.DDt.D.l.s.m.d.r.d.d.r.d... D.t.l...........D.l.s........... m.f.s.sss.s.l.s.D.D.t.t.l.t.D..... |
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03 Dec 13 - 08:49 PM (#3581229) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: Lighter Thanks, Joe. But Brand's song is based on a different version, the one in Ed Cray's book about a tinker who "came from France." It has a farmer's daughter in it instead of a lady, and a "tiddlywhacker" refrain. |
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13 Oct 15 - 07:00 AM (#3743522) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: GUEST Those last two lines that seem to be giving trouble were sung on a recording I heard as: "With his long Tom tiddlywacker, overgrown kidney cracker, looking like a chimneystack around his belly way." |
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13 Oct 15 - 08:16 AM (#3743542) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: GUEST,Lighter Brand's 1960 book of "Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads" prints the chorus a bit differently than what he sings on the record: "With his long john tiddlee whacker, Overgrown kidney-cracker, Looking for a scrimmage around the belly whang." I still hear only the nonsensical "sidney stack" on the album. Brand's lyrics sometimes vary somewhat from appearance to appearance. BTW, this particular jolly tinker song has not often been collected. |
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13 Oct 15 - 05:22 PM (#3743704) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: Mrrzy The tinker against the wall is what Oscar Brand sings as the Student. |
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13 Oct 15 - 07:49 PM (#3743725) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: Amos He fucked them on the carpets, he fucked them on the mat He went into the stable, and he fucked the stable cat. With his bloody great kidney wiper, etc. |
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14 Oct 15 - 11:13 AM (#3743867) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: GUEST,Lighter The text in "Immortalia" (1927) has "Looking for a scrimmage/ Around the belly whang." |
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17 Feb 23 - 01:58 PM (#4165412) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: GUEST,Andy Looking like a chimney stacker Round the bally way. Chimney stacker = chimney stack. A good size for a toddger. Round the bally way = typical last line in folk songs. Regards. |
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28 Aug 23 - 03:44 PM (#4180165) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: GUEST,Andy Sorry. Better explanation is:- Looking like a chimney stack Around the bally way. (Slur "stack and Around" together:- stack er-round Chimney stack = a good size for a todger. Around the bally way = typical last line in folk songs. Regards. |
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28 Aug 23 - 03:44 PM (#4187057) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Jolly Tinker (Oscar Brand) From: GUEST,Andy Sorry. Better explanation is:- Looking like a chimney stack Around the bally way. (Slur "stack and Around" together:- stack er-round Chimney stack = a good size for a todger. Around the bally way = typical last line in folk songs. Regards. |
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16 Jun 25 - 09:15 AM (#4224243) Subject: RE: ADD: The Jolly Tinker (from Oscar Brand) From: Lighter From Anne Cockburn, “An Edition of the Daybook of John Reddish, 1740-1805. Vol. 2,” Doctoral diss., University of Nottingham, 1979. I've tidied up the line endings, spelling, and punctuation.The song was written down in Nottinghamshire between 1780 and 1805. It is clearly an early avatar of Brand's song, farmer's daughter, nonsense syllables, and all: A New Song. 1 It's of a jolly beggar man as I heard people say, Rudom dardom dydom, rudom dardom day, It's of a jolly beggar man as I hard people say, And he went a-begging all on the highway. Chorus With his good and long, stiff and strong, Still standing, rudom daddy, wag your stump, stump about, Rudom dardom dydo rudom dardom day. 2 He went unto a farmer's house some charity for to crave, Rudom dardom dydo, rudom dardom day, He went unto a farmer's house some charity for to crave Get off, ye saucy begger man, no Charity you shall have. 3 The farmer he'd a daughter, and her name was Miss Primm, Rudom dardom dydo, rudom dardom day. The farmer he'd a daughter, her name it was Miss Primm, He is a handsome beggar man, so daddy, let him in. 4 She went into the celler to draw a can of beer, Rudom dardom dydo, rudom dardom day. She went into the celler to draw a can of Beer Rudom daddy followed her and kiss't her on stairs. 5 She went into the parlor and likewise into ye hall Rudom dardom dydo, rudom dardom day She went into the parlor and likewise in the hall Rudom daddy follow'd her, to work they both did fall. Etc. 6 She went into the garden to get a bit of sage, Rudom dardom dydo, rudom dardom day, She went into the garden to get a bit of Sage, Rudom daddy follow'd her because she was at age. Etc. |