28 Apr 23 - 02:12 PM (#4171015) Subject: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e We're a pack of bastards, Text and description above was posted by an anonymous mudcat guest in the "Songs You Learned in the Service" thread on 03 Jul 09 - 09:06 PM. Retrieved from here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=2671146 More examples and variants to follow. |
28 Apr 23 - 02:32 PM (#4171017) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e WE'RE A BUNCH OF PHARMACISTS The above is from pg 25 of Sherle R. Goldstone's "Songs that are Unprinted (For Obvious Reasons)" term paper from 1934. Read the scanned pages of the term paper here: https://archive.org/details/1934-college-songs-that-are-unprinted-for-obvious-reasons-sherle-r-goldstone/page/n23/mode/2up Another variant from that paper to follow. |
28 Apr 23 - 02:45 PM (#4171019) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e The Colgate version of the preceding song is not boosting its men at all. From pg 26 of Sherle Goldstone's "College Songs that Are Unprinted (for Obvious Reasons)" Read the original term paper here: https://archive.org/details/1934-college-songs-that-are-unprinted-for-obvious-reasons-sherle-r-goldstone/page/n25/mode/2up Dash expurgation is in the original. The hand written note is on the original paper (perhaps by the grader or teacher). |
28 Apr 23 - 03:15 PM (#4171020) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e The song is sung in the following youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgMN-yieg8o The tune is some sort of march or fight song. |
28 Apr 23 - 03:41 PM (#4171021) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e We're a Bunch of Bastards From pg 26, Apples of Eden: A Private Collection of American Folk-Lore: Gathered from cowboys, college boys, and latino americanos by a liberal who does not believe that these choice morsels should be thrown out of American Literature because of their vigorous and unconventional language. After all, a manure pile by any other name would smell no better! And even a manure pile has its values. 77 pages. 4to. (Berkley, California? ca. 1945.) Typescript. Mostly bawdy songs. An important early record of bawdy songs, doggerel verse a third of which are limericks. Read online here: https://archive.org/details/1945applesofeden/page/25/mode/2up |
28 Apr 23 - 04:00 PM (#4171022) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e ...marching song which we used to sing to the tune of "Our Director:" From page 331, 1950, The Commonweal. See google here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Commonweal/4EA8AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22pack+of+bastards%22+OR+%22bunch+of+bastards%22+song&dq=%22pack+of+bastards%22+OR+%22bunch+of+bastards%22+song&printsec=frontcover |
28 Apr 23 - 04:49 PM (#4171027) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e ...Regimental March of the 3rd Battalion, Royal From pg 21, Australian Bawdy Ballads by Ron Edwards, 1973. |
28 Apr 23 - 05:48 PM (#4171031) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e MEN OF THE MARCHING CHIPS Notes: From the "P-File" of Central Michigan University [ca. 1991]. This file was accompanied by a cassette recording with song sung by David R. He says the tune is similiar to the one printed in The Erotic Muse, pg 351, for the song "We Are the Dirty Bitches". The "Chips" are the Chippewa Marching Band "Chips". The rival of CMU is the University of Toledo. |
28 Apr 23 - 06:00 PM (#4171032) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: Joe_F And Cornell's run by jizzumjuice? |
28 Apr 23 - 06:08 PM (#4171033) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e Rotten BastardsI [[Jeff "Little Head" Hutchinson]] learned this song from Chuck E Cheeks. Retrieved from here: https://littlehead-dh3.angelfire.com/hymnal/words/rttnbast.htm |
28 Apr 23 - 07:03 PM (#4171040) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e I should tell you that we had a particular Online recording of an interview with Stanley Connelly (Slim) a WWII and Korean War veteran in the Australian Army. Date of interview 27th November 2003. Online video and transcription here: https://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/archive/1216 |
28 Apr 23 - 07:40 PM (#4171041) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e We're a bunch of bastards,Supposedly in Les Cleveland's 1994 book Dark Laughter: War in Song and Popular Culture. He notes it is a World War I song. If someone can confirm this quote and if he documents it to WWI, it would be appreciated. |
28 Apr 23 - 08:12 PM (#4171042) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e WE'RE A PACK OF BASTARD Song #59, pg 49, in "THE LONGEST YEAR: A Collection of Songs by Aviators and Civilians in the Vietnam War" collected and annotated by Brigadier General Thomas Bowen and Dr. Lydia M. Fish. Dec. 1990. |
28 Apr 23 - 08:37 PM (#4171044) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e We Are the Dirty Bitches From Ed Cray's The Erotic Muse. Pgs 358-359. Can anyone confirm if the tune shown in the link below matches Our Director March ? https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Erotic_Muse/W8PvCRbEKLYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=we+are+dirty+bitches+erotic+muse&pg=PA352&printsec=frontcover |
28 Apr 23 - 11:23 PM (#4171051) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: GerryM Morphodites? Sith Regiment? gragged out? |
29 Apr 23 - 07:20 AM (#4171073) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e Sorry about the mis-typing the transcriptions. The "Morphodites" is original, Sith Regiment, of course, is Sixth Regiment, "gragged out" is "dragged out". |
29 Apr 23 - 07:28 AM (#4171074) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e THE DOCKYARD CALVARY Song #26 in Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970, by Cyril Tawney. See google books here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Grey_Funnel_Lines/r01ACwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq="we're+a+shower+of+bastards"&pg=PT65&printsec=frontcover |
29 Apr 23 - 07:39 AM (#4171075) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e Roud No 29395 These two Roud #s should be combined. |
29 Apr 23 - 07:50 AM (#4171078) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: and e Bunch of BastardsDESCRIPTION: "We're a bunch of bastards, bastards are we, We of the Air Force are assholes of the earth... 'Cause we're a bunch of bastards, Morphidites [?] are we, We'd sooner fuck than fight for victory." Or "We're a bunch of bastards... We're the dockyard cavalry" AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear) KEYWORDS: soldier bawdy FOUND IN: Canada REFERENCES (2 citations): Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, p. 113, "Bunch of Bastards" (1 short text, 1 tune) Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy, p. 42, "The Dockyard Cavalry" (1 short text, tune referenced) Roud #29395 and 29949 CROSS-REFERENCES: cf. "Our Director" (tune, according to Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy) NOTES [42 words]: Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear claims there are many versions of this, but cites only one verse. Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy's stanza is different -- a navy version rather than an army version -- but it seems to demonstrate Hopkins's claim. - RBW Last updated in version 5.1 File: Hopk113 Go to the Ballad Search form Go to the Ballad Index Song List Go to the Ballad Index Instructions Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography The Ballad Index Copyright 2023 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
29 Apr 23 - 06:07 PM (#4171130) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We're a Pack of Bastards (Bawdy Song) From: Joe_F "Morphodite", I believe, is a corruption of "hermaphrodite", and in some vulgar dialects is slang for "queer". A further corruption, "morphodike", is said to be the origin of "bulldike". |