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12 Nov 97 - 02:26 AM (#16106) Subject: lyrics for "Pheasant Plucker" From: JP Brown There was a rather bawdy (well, innuendo-based) folk song doing rather well i the UK in the middle -> lat '80s, the choruses of which were based around the popular tongue-twister 'I'm not pheasant plucker, I'm a...', etc. Only the choruses have stayed with me -- does anyone have lyrics for the verses. TIA JP Brown |
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09 Jan 98 - 02:50 AM (#18919) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Elektra@gate.net The version I know of the song you are referring to is descended from the American school of blues. The CD I have it on is out on loan at the moment, so I can't look up the exact title, (or lyrics -- sorry!) but it IS taken from the first line of the chorus -- that being, "Stick out your can, here comes the garbage man." |
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09 Jan 98 - 05:47 AM (#18929) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Wolfgang Hell JP Brown, If you enter "pheasant plucker" in the search window in the upper right hand corner you get that song. Wolfgang |
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09 Jan 98 - 07:36 AM (#18930) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Peter For what it's worth, the version Wolfgang refers to on the database is different from the one that a humour/folk group called The Wurzels recorded in the late 1970s. I don't remember all of it, but the chorus was The verses were
Me daddy was a poor man, he worked hard to earn his pay; |
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09 Jan 98 - 05:12 PM (#18947) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Bert I seem to remember a Square Dance of that name back in the late Fifties or Early Sixties. About the time when good sound equipment was allowing callers a lot more freedom and Modern Square Dancing was evolving out of the "Fifties/Traditional" style. One of the early dances where the dancers were allowed to feel completely lost and rely solely on the caller to get them home. I think it went... Dive Thru', Pass Thru',Right & Left Through , a few times in succession. Those were the days, Happy memories. |
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09 Jan 98 - 10:19 PM (#18973) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: alison Hi The Wurzels did some good stuff....?!!!!?? Who could forget "I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key." Slainte alison |
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14 Sep 98 - 06:31 PM (#38117) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: MARGIE who could foget a song by such a Trend setting band like the WURZELS .They changed my life for good! |
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14 Sep 98 - 11:44 PM (#38152) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca I am a cider drinker . . . |
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15 Sep 98 - 02:58 AM (#38169) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: alison Hi, there was another one about "scrumpy" too. There's another verse to the pheasant plucker.
I'm not a pheasant plucker I'm a pheasant plucker's mate slainte alison |
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15 Sep 98 - 07:13 AM (#38182) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: alison Or what about...
I'm not a thistle scyther, I'm a thistle scyther's son Slainte alison |
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15 Sep 98 - 04:16 PM (#38216) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Pete M Ummm? "scistle thyther"? "Cecil Thighser"? Maybe my flashers raincoat index is low this morning, but I don't get that one Alison. Pete M |
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15 Sep 98 - 08:03 PM (#38239) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: dick greenhaus Gee- We used to sing of Fig Pluckers... |
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15 Sep 98 - 08:08 PM (#38240) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: alison hi, a scythe is a small sickle(like the thing the grim reaper has), for cutting down vegetation. a good tongue twister, it's just a variation on the original. slainte alison |
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15 Sep 98 - 08:41 PM (#38245) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Jack Hickman Alison You've got it bass ackwards. A sickle is a small scythe. The forerunner of the weed-whacker. Jack |
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15 Sep 98 - 10:59 PM (#38264) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Pete M Hi Alison, yes I've used a sickle and a scythe. (Scythes are used for cutting grass for hay, sickles for harvesting grain.) The point about the "pheasant pluckers" song is not that it is a tongue twister per se, but the rather interesting spoonerism that is normally created if you try and say it quickly. Ditto fig pluckers. Hence my confusion. Pete M |
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16 Sep 98 - 12:06 AM (#38271) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: gargoyle A crew of Englishers that included "A Wurzel" that I took out for a two week adventure on the lakes and rivers of Maine in the late 70's sent me a tape.
My favorite was in regard to a local bus-stop.
What do we want with a light?
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18 Nov 98 - 08:15 AM (#45923) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: bob marley come back ye got me tankard |
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18 Nov 98 - 06:21 PM (#45991) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: dick greenhaus Just think--if the weed ahacker had been invented in 1915 or so, the Soviet Union might have had an entirely different flag... |
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19 Nov 98 - 12:10 AM (#46041) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: DonMeixner I'm not th Iceman, I'm the Iceman's son, But I'll keep you cool 'till the Iceman comes. |
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23 Dec 98 - 09:51 AM (#50653) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Adge If thee's like the Wurzaws thee's wanna look at the Wurzelmania zite. Oh Ar Adge |
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23 Dec 98 - 11:40 AM (#50660) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Vicki Is this song a relative of Ol' Dick Potter, the chicken plucker, plucked them chickens night and day, Ol Dick Potter, the chicken plucker, plucked his life away...???? Vic |
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14 Dec 14 - 05:15 PM (#3685706) Subject: Pheasant Plucker From: GUEST,Susie I know that the "Pheasant Plucker" song[s] have a music hall history - I found one reference to the 1840s. Can anyone throw any light on the song, variations in lyrics, tune [that'd be quite handy!] and who wrote it, where it was first recorded as being performed - and when? Awaiting responses with interest! |
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14 Dec 14 - 05:54 PM (#3685713) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: GUEST,henryp Use the box above to search the DT library and the Forum. |
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14 Dec 14 - 09:28 PM (#3685754) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: GUEST,Frank As such, I cannot help with your query. However, as a Tongue Twister, the following may be of interest. I am not a Pheasant Plucker, nor am I a Pheasant Plucker's Son, But I'll pluck Pheasants 'till the Pheasant Pluckers come. Be careful, and slow. |
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15 Dec 14 - 08:59 AM (#3685873) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: bubblyrat Yes ! Slightly different ; I am a Pheasant Plucker , I'm a Pheasant Plucker's son, And I'll be plucking pheasants , ' til the pheasant plucking's done . Meanwhile ; There's an old Cock Pheasant , and he ain't too pleasant, Up the Clump,Up the Clump ,Up the Clump! ( etc ). |
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15 Dec 14 - 12:32 PM (#3685930) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Lighter 1840s? |
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15 Dec 14 - 02:22 PM (#3685972) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: MGM·Lion For the record, the version I know goes I'm not a pheasant plucker I'm a pheasant plucker's son, And I'm only plucking pheasants Till the pheasant plucker comes. Learned long ago from David Weeks, originally of Bexley, Kent, but presumably learned while a drama teacher at Forest Hill School, London. ≈M≈ |
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15 Dec 14 - 03:52 PM (#3685994) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: MGM·Lion Only know it as a recitation, BTW; but I find, when I think of it, that it 'sings itself in my head' to the tune of Annie Laurie. |
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15 Dec 14 - 11:46 PM (#3686095) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: GUEST,Dave Hunt I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant pluckers mate I'm only plucking pheasants 'coz the pheasant pluckers late How about.. 'Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock etc....' , getting faster, looks simple but just try it! |
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16 Dec 14 - 12:50 AM (#3686105) Subject: RE: Pheasant Plucker From: Louie Roy This kinda reminds me of the Peter pepper |
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16 Dec 14 - 03:39 AM (#3686117) Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not a Pheasant Plucker... From: Musket As a teenager I was in a band that inflicted a version on our local folk clubs from time to time. The end of verse not mentioned on this thread yet is, as I recall I'm not a pheasant plucker I'm a pheasant plucker's wife And when you're plucking pheasants it's a pheasant plucking life. Mate, son etc. They're all there too! Lovely reading about "Up the Clump.". One of my favourite Adge Cutler comedy songs. I still have a live recording somewhere where during the middle 8 he shouted to Reg Quantrill "this'n nothing but hedgehog! Get off moi brown suede gaitors!" |
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19 Sep 21 - 03:00 AM (#4120322) Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not a Pheasant Plucker... From: GUEST I`m not the pheasant plucker I`m the pheasant pluckers friend, and I`m only plucking pheasants as a means unto an end. |
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19 Sep 21 - 08:25 AM (#4120336) Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not a Pheasant Plucker... From: GUEST,jugmws This version is the best I have heard. It is now on YT. Copy this link to hear it there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m09eEgy2Zhk They broke up in the early 2000's m |
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19 Sep 21 - 09:23 AM (#4120338) Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not a Pheasant Plucker... From: The Og I, too, recall a fig plucker... |