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Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shabag

30 Jan 05 - 06:11 AM (#1393031)
Subject: Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shagbag
From: greg stephens

Some boaty friends have come round, and we can none of us complete the song that starts
    "She's a ragbag shagbag
    Fucking old whore bag
    That's my mother-in-law"

Can any connoisseurs of this area of folksong help out with the rest

30 Jan 05 - 09:14 AM (#1393152)
Subject: RE: Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shabag
From: Snuffy

Try looking here, Greg. mother-in-law

01 Feb 05 - 12:34 PM (#1395782)
Subject: RE: Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shabag
From: John M.

Hello everyone,

The song "Shagbag, Ragbag" is known to me as  "Who is Sylvia?" or "My Girl"  (recording)


                Do you sing this song?  If so when/where did you learn it?


Any help is appreciated.

Sincerely,

John Mehlberg
john@mehlberg.com
~
My, mostly traditional, bawdy songs, toasts and recitations website: www.immortalia.com
~

WHO IS SYLVIA?  (recording)

Who is Sylvia?
What is she?

She's a rag bag, a shag bag, an automatic whore.
She's got a fanny like a big barn door
She can run, skip and jump
Catch a barrel up her cunt.
She's the girl for me.


Notes:  This is transcribed from the Medical Students Sing Rugby Songs [1970] the last of the Sportsdic rugby records series.  The "Rag bag, shag bag..." verse is sung to "Turkey in the Straw".  This song is also found on The I's Reunion Record (1986) a New Zealand 45 record under the title "My Girl".   Compare this song with Mary Anne Burns (the Queen of all the Acrobats). 


Recordings:

  • Sportsdic Records
  • Intercoursers Records/Rugby Records. [Recorded September 1986, Palmerston North.]

01 Feb 05 - 02:38 PM (#1395912)
Subject: RE: Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shabag
From: greg stephens

Thanks very much, Snuffy and John. I think thia one will even challenge Masato Sakurai.

02 Feb 05 - 06:24 PM (#1397170)
Subject: RE: Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shabag
From: greg stephens

Refresh. John Mehlberg's Sylvia song is related, but not the same.

30 Mar 06 - 03:58 PM (#1706919)
Subject: RE: Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shabag
From: GUEST,some more of this wonderful ditty!

She's a ragbag, shagbag, dirty old fucking slag,
that's my mother in law,
She wants rooting, shooting, fucking executing,
hanging from a shit house door.
And tatooed on her vagina, is a full scale map of china,
How I love her, how I love her, how I love my mother in law.

30 Sep 08 - 04:07 PM (#2454125)
Subject: RE: Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shabag
From: and e

Retrieved from here on 2008-09-30: http://upload.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=6246387974


shes a rag bag shag bag dirty lil whore
shes got a box like a old barn
she can hop, skip, jump catch it in her cunt
shes the girl 4 u !


And another version retrieved from here: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4759140688

she's a ragbag shagbag twice the size of me,
hairs on her fanny like the branches on a tree,
she can read write fuck fight ride a motorbike
SHE'S THE GIRL FOR ME

23 Mar 15 - 04:53 PM (#3696232)
Subject: RE: Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shabag
From: GUEST,Franco

At Butlin's Ayr (1975) the version was as follows:
she's a ragbag, shagbag, cuntbag, fuckbag, any bag at all, she's my mother in law

24 Sep 16 - 03:29 PM (#3811143)
Subject: RE: Lyr(rude) req: She's a ragbag shabag
From: GUEST

My late grandad used to chant "ragbag shag bag" at the top of his voice and my gran would reply " ya daft noggin" thing you remember ;0)