18 May 23 - 07:19 PM (#4172529) Subject: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt This untitled song is found on the LP "The Fox: Songs Banned in Boston" by Bill Foster. Undated [1977]. Other traditional drinkin songs, many bawdy, are found on this LP. Does anyone sing this song? If so, when & where did you learn it? Does it vary from the text above? Any help is appreciated. |
18 May 23 - 07:58 PM (#4172531) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: Joe Offer Reminiscent of The Scotsman's Kild, by Mike Cross - but definitely not the same song. |
19 May 23 - 08:12 AM (#4172566) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e P-File: "I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt" p. 48 From the "Perversion-Files" [c1995] from the Central Michigan University Marching Band collected by David Romas & Michael Fitzpatrick. Three copies of the "P-Files" songbook, along with two cassette tapes, are deposited at the Library of Congress Folklife Archive where it is assigned the catalog number AFC 1997/016 The song was marked as currently sung on a regular basis by the Marching Chippewas or have been sung regularly in the past decade or so. [ca 1985 to 1995] Although the "P-file" doesn't identify the tune, Cassette #1 that accompanies the has this song being sung to "The Campbells Are Coming". |
19 May 23 - 10:20 AM (#4172576) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: GUEST,and e (no cookie) It was recording on "The Man Show" sung by Bill "The Fox" Foster. The video is online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bChAltzmClE |
19 May 23 - 10:51 AM (#4172579) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: Dave the Gnome What's worn under the kilt? Nothing, it's all as good as new! |
14 Sep 23 - 08:48 PM (#4181660) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e Johnny, come tickle me, you know where, Learned in the 1910s as a kid in Brookly, as recorded on the LP When I Was A Boy in Brooklyn by Israel Kaplan, 1961, track #5, "Rhymes" on the LP . Folkways Records FG 3501. This is sung but the tune on the record is *not* "The Campbells are Coming". Liner notes -- with the lyric above -- are available here: https://ia804503.us.archive.org/19/items/lp_when-i-was-a-boy-in-brooklyn-an-autobiog_israel-kaplan/lp_when-i-was-a-boy-in-brooklyn-an-autobiog_israel-kaplan.pdf |
14 Sep 23 - 08:48 PM (#4189453) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e Johnny, come tickle me, you know where, Learned in the 1910s as a kid in Brookly, as recorded on the LP When I Was A Boy in Brooklyn by Israel Kaplan, 1961, track #5, "Rhymes" on the LP . Folkways Records FG 3501. This is sung but the tune on the record is *not* "The Campbells are Coming". Liner notes -- with the lyric above -- are available here: https://ia804503.us.archive.org/19/items/lp_when-i-was-a-boy-in-brooklyn-an-autobiog_israel-kaplan/lp_when-i-was-a-boy-in-brooklyn-an-autobiog_israel-kaplan.pdf |
14 Sep 23 - 11:37 PM (#4189451) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: PHJim Joe, Mike Cross calls his song "The Scotsman". Although some performers do call it "The Scotsman's Kilt", Mike's recordings (and Bryan Bowers') go by "The Scotsman". |
14 Sep 23 - 11:37 PM (#4181667) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: PHJim Joe, Mike Cross calls his song "The Scotsman". Although some performers do call it "The Scotsman's Kilt", Mike's recordings (and Bryan Bowers') go by "The Scotsman". |
15 Sep 23 - 12:14 AM (#4181668) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: PHJim Here is Mike Cross singing "The Scotsman" The Scotsman sung by Mike Cross Here is Bryan Bowers' cover of "The Scotsman". Bryan Bowers singing "The Scotsman" |
15 Sep 23 - 12:14 AM (#4189452) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: PHJim Here is Mike Cross singing "The Scotsman" The Scotsman sung by Mike Cross Here is Bryan Bowers' cover of "The Scotsman". Bryan Bowers singing "The Scotsman" |
15 Sep 23 - 02:22 AM (#4189454) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e ....I have a copy of "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife", 651 instrumental March 19, 2004, Posted by Ironmule in the O Tommy Come Tickle Me mudcat thread. See post here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=1141295 |
15 Sep 23 - 02:22 AM (#4181669) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e ....I have a copy of "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife", 651 instrumental March 19, 2004, Posted by Ironmule in the O Tommy Come Tickle Me mudcat thread. See post here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=1141295 |
15 Sep 23 - 02:25 AM (#4181670) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e I heard this jingle in 1974 in Long Island from a friend who was Posted by GUEST,Strudelbag to Mudcat on March 23, 2004. See post here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=1144204 |
15 Sep 23 - 02:25 AM (#4189455) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e I heard this jingle in 1974 in Long Island from a friend who was Posted by GUEST,Strudelbag to Mudcat on March 23, 2004. See post here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=1144204 |
15 Sep 23 - 02:38 AM (#4189456) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e ...this wonderful camp song that takes two people to sing. One to say Posted by blogspot author "fillthehours" on July 23, 2015. The author talks about growing up in the South Bronx and East Tremont of New York in the '70s. Retrieved from http://fillthehours.blogspot.com/2015/07/da-bronx-sings.html |
15 Sep 23 - 02:38 AM (#4181671) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e ...this wonderful camp song that takes two people to sing. One to say Posted by blogspot author "fillthehours" on July 23, 2015. The author talks about growing up in the South Bronx and East Tremont of New York in the '70s. Retrieved from http://fillthehours.blogspot.com/2015/07/da-bronx-sings.html |
15 Sep 23 - 02:47 AM (#4181672) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e ....cracking jokes as I carried my accident folders back and forth past Pg 495, from Joseph Heller's 1974 book Something Happened See here: https://books.google.com/books?id=X-CILqF-RugC&pg=PA495&lpg=PA495&dq=%22We+had+other+dirty+songs+we+loved+too%22&source=bl&ots=WQnckRzHtU&sig=ACfU3U1S2UZulXtB2kvgrn1hgp2fhE0POw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwipmIqCgqyBAxWtj4kEHXJ2AkUQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=%22We%20had%20other%20dirty%20songs%20we%20loved%20too%22&f=false |
15 Sep 23 - 02:47 AM (#4189457) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: and e ....cracking jokes as I carried my accident folders back and forth past Pg 495, from Joseph Heller's 1974 book Something Happened See here: https://books.google.com/books?id=X-CILqF-RugC&pg=PA495&lpg=PA495&dq=%22We+had+other+dirty+songs+we+loved+too%22&source=bl&ots=WQnckRzHtU&sig=ACfU3U1S2UZulXtB2kvgrn1hgp2fhE0POw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwipmIqCgqyBAxWtj4kEHXJ2AkUQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=%22We%20had%20other%20dirty%20songs%20we%20loved%20too%22&f=false |
21 Sep 23 - 04:16 AM (#4189458) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: BrooklynJay Way back in the mid-1960's I heard it as: Tickle me, tickle me, you know where Tickle the pickle that's under the hair If you don't tickle me in the right place I'll pull up my kilt and I'll pee in your face Ah, the Folk Process... Jay |
21 Sep 23 - 04:16 AM (#4182118) Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt From: BrooklynJay Way back in the mid-1960's I heard it as: Tickle me, tickle me, you know where Tickle the pickle that's under the hair If you don't tickle me in the right place I'll pull up my kilt and I'll pee in your face Ah, the Folk Process... Jay |