10 Mar 24 - 08:32 PM (#4198858) Subject: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e Oh Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! Text of song transcribed from the youtube video posted by threelegsoman on Jan 20, 2010. See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0n1R8ABSzU Sir Jasper is sometimes titled "Sir Roger" and is sometimes added onto "Sir Roger of Kildare [aka Shoot the Cat]". "She Wears Her Pink Pajamas" is sometimes used as an introduction to "Sir Jasper". |
10 Mar 24 - 08:33 PM (#4198859) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e Roud index Roud #10311 mixes "Sir Jasper" with examples of "She wears her Pink Pajamas : https://www.vwml.org/component/rbdmdtallis2/?view=search&q=rn10311 |
10 Mar 24 - 08:33 PM (#4198860) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e Oh, Sir Jasper Retrieved from the Ballad Index: https://balladindex.org/Ballads/ACSF168J.html on March 6, 2024. |
10 Mar 24 - 08:34 PM (#4198861) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e She wears her silk pyjamas in the summer when it's hot, Posted to the "John Brown's Body" thread by Rowan on 17 October, 2006. See post here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=1861784 |
10 Mar 24 - 08:35 PM (#4198862) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e SHE'S A MOST IMMORAL LADY Posted by GUEST,.gargoyle to the mudcat Rugby Football Songs thread on October 3, 2001. Original post: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=564053 |
10 Mar 24 - 08:36 PM (#4198863) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e ... Oh , sir Roger , do not touch me !, the following sequence is obtained : Humour: An Anatomy & Physiology by Cristina Tataru. 1999. pg 215. Snipet view only: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Humour/RHcHAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22oh+sir+roger%22&dq=%22oh+sir+roger%22&printsec=frontcover |
10 Mar 24 - 08:36 PM (#4198864) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e Evolution The Complete Immortalia. 1971. Pg 454. See online here: https://archive.org/details/bawdybedsideread00rhva/page/454/mode/2up?q=george |
10 Mar 24 - 08:37 PM (#4198865) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e Oh dear John, let's not park here! Western Folklore. 1970. Pg 101. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Western_Folklore/-hRrCGtSofkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Oh%22+%22not+park+here%22&dq=%22Oh%22+%22not+park+here%22&printsec=frontcover |
10 Mar 24 - 08:48 PM (#4198866) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e SIR ROGER OF KILDARE University Song Book. Geoff Best, Tony Correll and Ian Owens (editors). 1966. pg 49 See online here: https://archive.org/details/1966-uni-song-book-by-best/page/n25/mode/2up?q=%22sir+roger+of+kildare%22 |
10 Mar 24 - 08:49 PM (#4198867) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e Oh, Sir Jasper The Singing Street by James Ritchie. 1964. Pg 104-105. See online here: https://archive.org/details/singingstreet0000jame/page/104/mode/2up?q=sir+jasper |
10 Mar 24 - 08:50 PM (#4198868) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e SIR JASPER Snatches & Lays. first edition. 1962. pg 34. Listed in the song section but no tune indicated. |
10 Mar 24 - 08:51 PM (#4198869) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e SIR ROGER OF KILDARE Queensland University (St. Lucia) Hockey Club Song Book ca. 1960 |
10 Mar 24 - 08:51 PM (#4198870) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e 38 SIR ROGER From an Untitled Hessel RUFC [Rugby Union Football Club] Songbook. c1960. See online here: https://archive.org/details/1960ca-untitled-hessle-rufc-songbook-missing-songs-18-31-36-39/page/n11/mode/2up?q=%22oh+sir%22+%22do+not+touch%22 |
10 Mar 24 - 08:52 PM (#4198871) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e ....unrepeatable ones like Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! and a blasphemous Snipped of John Brunner's story, "The Number of My Days," in Nebula Science Fiction, 19 (Dec., 1956). https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nebula_Science_Fiction/y-ftiF1gtXsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22oh+sir%22+%22do+not+touch+me%22&dq=%22oh+sir%22+%22do+not+touch+me%22&printsec=frontcover |
10 Mar 24 - 08:55 PM (#4198872) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e ....Joan, who had bawdy tastes, taught us 'O Sir Jasper'[26], "Songs of a Female Student Group, 1949-52" by Jacqueline Simpson. Folk Music Journal, Vol. 4, No. 5 (1984), pp. 504-527 JSTOR link: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4522159 |
10 Mar 24 - 08:55 PM (#4198873) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e Oh! George let's don't park here! Typo Graphic. 1947. Pg 41. See online here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Typo_Graphic/8e8oAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Oh%22+%22don%27t+park%22+joke+OR+humor&dq=%22Oh%22+%22don%27t+park%22+joke+OR+humor&printsec=frontcover |
10 Mar 24 - 08:56 PM (#4198874) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e "Oh Lloyd, don't let's park here." From the 1934 movie Handy Andy. See movie clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chWwaRJdrBU |
10 Mar 24 - 08:57 PM (#4198875) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e Oh! South of Market Journal, September, 1930. Pg 5. See online: https://archive.org/details/southofmarketjou4519281930sout/page/n487/mode/2up?q=%22don%27t+let%27s+park%22 After this Sep 1930 appearance, it shows up in several newspapers in 1931: Strathmore standard (1931-04-15) These all have "John" with an introductory line "Just a smile for all the hands in your office--this bein' the latest from any battlefield-" |
10 Mar 24 - 08:58 PM (#4198876) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e ...One of the boys in the office slipped us this one. He said he crabbed it from the columns of a very popular weekly. Suburbanite Economist. Tuesday, July 8, 1930. pg 7. See here: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/53002746/ I don't have access to the image of the poem. But the OCR text is below. |
10 Mar 24 - 08:58 PM (#4198878) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: and e The "Oh Sir Jasper" is often associated with "Pink Pajamas" as they share the same tune. But "Pink Pajamas" can be traced as an independent ditty to pre-WWI. See this mudcat thread for "Pink Pajamas": https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=172802 |
10 Mar 24 - 09:31 PM (#4198880) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: GUEST,Steve Shaw Bit of a funny thread, but I remember a camping holiday in Scotland in 1974 when we had to walk four miles there and four (pissed) miles back to get to the nearest pub to the campsite (in Killin, Perthshire). We sang this song, exactly as in the opening post, to keep us going on the long slog back. To do it right, you have to do some almost orgasmic singing on the "Oh, Sir Jasper!" line! And "She's a most immoral lady" is a key part of the song! |
14 Mar 24 - 08:19 AM (#4199078) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: Nigel Parsons Not forgetting the version by The Goodies Father Christmas do not touch me |
14 Mar 24 - 03:15 PM (#4199116) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: MaJoC the Filk .... which mysteriously fades during the second-to-last verse .... |
16 Mar 24 - 08:11 PM (#4199206) Subject: RE: Origins: Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me! From: Tattie Bogle Certainly remember singing this when I was in Girl Guides in the early 60s: possibly not around the camp fire or within Captain’s hearing! |