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19 Aug 00 - 05:39 PM (#280878) Subject: Our's Is Not A Happy Household From: GUEST,Ina P.(guest) "Our's Is Not A Happy Household" is a rugby song sung to the tune of the German National Anthem. Does anybody know the words? |
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19 Aug 00 - 06:16 PM (#280888) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Our's Is Not A Happy Household From: Pene Azul You can get the lyrics to "Life Presents a Dismal Picture " here (click). PA |
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02 Feb 11 - 11:02 PM (#3087670) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ours Is Not a Happy Household From: Jim Dixon Or here: Lyr Add: LIFE PRESENTS A DISMAL PICTURE |
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14 Nov 17 - 10:54 PM (#3888622) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ours Is Not a Happy Household From: GUEST I know part of it. "Ours is not a happy household, no one laughs or even smiles. Mine's a dismal occupation, crushing ice for father's piles. Sister sue has just aborted, for the forty-second time. To the horror of the butler, Who's the author of her fate." That's all I remember, I learned it from my father when I was a child (he had a strange sense of humor) and I am now in my 60's. |
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01 Jul 19 - 03:12 PM (#3998728) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ours Is Not a Happy Household From: GUEST,Peter Ours is not a happy Family No ones laughs and no ons smiles Mine's a dismal occupation, Crushing Ice for Grandpa's piles. Jane the under housemaid vomits Every morning just at eight, to the horror of the butler Who's the author of her fate. Aunty Jane has just aborted for the 47th time, Uncle George has been deported For a most unusual crime. And alas, that's all I remember, Peter |
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01 Jul 19 - 03:26 PM (#3998731) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ours Is Not a Happy Household From: GUEST,Starship http://pwoodford.net/hashblog/?p=626 Although it is not a 'secure' site, I picked up no attempt to drop viruses, etc. I think they'll answer the question. |
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01 Jul 19 - 06:10 PM (#3998760) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ours Is Not a Happy Household From: Joe_F Aliter: Life presents a dismal picture. Everything is fraught with gloom. Father has an anal stricture. Mother has a fallen womb. Sister Sue has just aborted For the forty-second time. Uncle Max has been deported For a homosexual crime. |
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01 Jul 19 - 11:11 PM (#3998788) Subject: Lyr Add: LIFE PRESENTS A DISMAL PICTURE From: Jim Dixon From Bawdy Barrack-Room Ballads by Hugh De Witt (1970), page 58. LIFE PRESENTS A DISMAL PICTURE Life presents a dismal picture, Dark and dreary as the tomb : Father's got an anal stricture, Mother's got a prolapsed womb. Sister Susan's been aborted For the forty-second time, Brother Bill has been deported For a homosexual crime. In a small brown-paper parcel, Wrapped in a mysterious way, Is an imitation rectum Grandpa uses twice a day. Jill has chronic menstruation, Never laughs and never smiles. Mine's a dismal occupation, Cracking ice for Grandma's piles. Cousin Peter's got paresis, Little Jennie cannot play. Uncle Joe converses with Jesus, And says : 'I'm Queen of the May!’ |
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01 Jul 19 - 11:29 PM (#3998791) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ours Is Not a Happy Household From: Jim Dixon An additional verse, from Maledicta - Volume 6, Issues 1-2, page v Grandma has intest'nal troubles Which are driving us to fits. Every time she eats, she bubbles, Every time she farts, she shits. |
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02 Jul 19 - 09:56 PM (#3998955) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ours Is Not a Happy Household From: Joe_F Jim Dixon: I dare say "rectum" was originally "arsehole", so that it rhymed. |
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03 Jul 19 - 12:30 AM (#3998968) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ours Is Not a Happy Household From: Jim Dixon Joe F: You're surely right! Thanks. |