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06 May 05 - 01:05 PM (#1479487) Subject: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional(?) bawdy song From: John M. Does anyone sing the following "teasing" bawdy song? If yes, to what tune? Any help is apprecated. I WANT A MAN So does anyone know this song? |
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07 May 05 - 08:31 AM (#1479965) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,Joe_F The tune is that of "Alexander's Ragtime Band". I can't remember where I saw this, tho. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: If you will not while you may, you shall not when you will. :|| |
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07 May 05 - 03:01 PM (#1480137) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp From: Joe Offer All I got at camp in Wisconsin was this fragment:
Swingin' on the outhouse door, Without her nightie, And Grandpa yellin' "More, More, More!!!" -Joe Offer- "Outhouse Door" thread (click). |
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04 Jun 07 - 08:52 PM (#2068693) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,Sue I remember that song from Lutheran camp in Canada! One line went; "I wanna pet, I wanna pet, I want a petticoat that swirls, I wanna neck, I wanna neck, I wanna necklace made of pearls" It ends: "And there was granny, swingin' on the outhouse door, without her nightie, waiting for the garbageman, roll over Mabel, Harold's coming back for more....ten dollars please" (the "ten dollars please" was to the tune of "and many more" after the Happy Birthday song) |
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04 Jun 07 - 08:59 PM (#2068696) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,meself And to think I almost let my kids attend a Lutheran camp once! |
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05 Jun 07 - 08:42 AM (#2069010) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: Roger in Baltimore I learned the first part of this song from my sisters who learned it in Girl Scouts. They never sang the Granny part. Roger in Baltimore |
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06 Jun 07 - 03:47 AM (#2069758) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: Snuffy The song itself is new to me, but we used to have a similar finish, which I always assumed to be a parody of a music hall/vaudeville Big Finish: Roll over, Mabel Let's have it on the other side. It's better in Blackpool Let's have it on the other side. Without your kecks on Let's have it on the other side. Just like the dogs do Let's have it on the other side. A sixty-niner Let's have it on the other side. GOOOOOD EEEEEEVENINNGGG FRIEEENDS |
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06 Jun 07 - 01:23 PM (#2070068) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: HouseCat I once got in trouble as a kid for teaching this song to 2 preschoolers I was babysitting :~). I learned it at Girl Scout camp. Though we sang the last bit: Swingin' on the outhouse door, Without my nightie, Waitin' for the boy next door To hold me tightie, (Big Finish...) SWINGIN' ON THE OUTHOUSE DOOOOOOOOR!!!!!!!!!! |
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10 Feb 12 - 09:41 AM (#3305360) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,Cvanmeter_Houston,TX I wish I could remember all fo it but we use to sing it on the bus rides to Grand Assembly every summer but our included the following verses I know: I wanna man...I wanna man...I wanna a mansion in the sky! (can't remember the next line that paired with the previous) I wanna pet...I wanna pet...I want a peticoat made of swirls! I wanna neck...I wanna neck...I wanna necklace made of pearls! (There was at least one other verse). The the chorus in between was done as... And when the dam, dam, damage is done.... I'm gonna have my child, my childish fun... Just a swinging on the outhouse door! (And for the finally and in a different tune it goes into...) Just a swinging in the outhouse door....without my nightie....just a swingin on the outhouse door. |
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25 May 12 - 11:57 AM (#3355528) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,Sandra Jean I sang I Wanna a Man, all the time as a 60's kid. Here goes, sung to the tune of Alexander's Ragtime Band:I wanna man. I wanna man. I wanna mansion in the sky. I wanna neck. I wanna neck. I wanna necktie for my guy. And when the dam dam dam dam damage is done, home to mother I will run, with my child, with my child, with my childhood memories. And there was granny, swingin' on the outhouse door,without her nighty, waitin' for the garbage man, he had her nighty, wrapped up in a cellophane bag. |
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25 May 12 - 12:18 PM (#3355538) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,Mike Yates Didn't the Appalachian singer Horton Barker sing the following short fragment: I feel like hell, I feel like hell, I feel like helping some poor soul, To find a man, To find a man, To find a mansion in the sky. I think that I read this in the notes to a Horton Barker LP (Folkways?) |
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25 May 12 - 01:42 PM (#3355573) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,Songbob Indeed Horton Barker sang that. I set it to a tune from godknwoswhere, since there was no tune given. I don't think Barker would have used "Alexander's Ragtime Band," but you never know. That said, I don't know how to fit the words above to Alexander's anyway. I can't hear it in my head. Ah, well. Bob |
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26 Jul 12 - 08:31 PM (#3382002) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,sly OK, so I know a different version... I want a man, I want a man... I want a mansion by the sea I want a neck, I want a neck... I want a necklace made of pearls And when the damn damn damn damage is done I want to have some child child childish fun Sung by the whorehouse... quartet We're not pregnant... not yet But give us time! And there was Granny swingin' on the outhouse door Without her nighty and grampa yelling "more more more" without her nighty and grampa yelling "you ol' whore!" |
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10 Apr 15 - 09:42 PM (#3701126) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,Grill scout in the early 60s Learned in Camp Four Winds : ...I feel like hell, I feel like hell, I felel like helping some poor guy And when the dam dam dam dam damage is done, I'm gonna have my child child childish fun I want a mansion IN the sky. I want some gin, I want some gin, want some gingerbread to munch I want some rye, I want some rue, I want some rue bread for my lunch. When the... The daycamp counsellors in CT didn't like us ( pre- teens) singing this... |
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02 Mar 17 - 08:55 PM (#3842559) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,nostalgic Yes, at camp we sang this in the 1970's to the tune of Alexander's Ragtime Band: I wanna man, I wanna man, I wanna mansion in the sky. I wanna hell, I wanna hell, I wanna help some birdie fly. And when the damn, damn, damn, damn, damage is done, We'll have a-child, child, child, child, childish fun, In our mansion in the sky. We'll go to bed, we'll go to bed, we'll go to Betty's house tonight. And we'll get hot, we'll get hot, we'll get hot dogs on the way. And when the damn, damn, damn, damn, damage is done, We'll have a-child, child, child, child, childish fun, In our mansion in the sky. |
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30 Jun 18 - 11:38 AM (#3934370) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST I want a man. I want a man I want a mansion in the sky.... I want a neck, i want a neck, i want a necklace made of pearls... I want a screw, i want a screw I want a screwdriver for my car.... Let’s go to bed (bet) let’s go to bed (bet) Let’s go to Betty’s house tonight... And when the dam dam dam dam damage is done We’re gonna have our child child childish fun In the good ole summertime And there was granny Swinging on the outhouse door Without her nightie And even though she’s 84 She’s pretty sexy And grandpa’s yelling “More more more” He’s 94 |
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01 Jun 19 - 01:07 AM (#3994747) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST That last version is the one I remember, except on the chorus we ended with "up in that mansion in the sky, blue sky" instead of "in the good ole summer time ". We also had an alternative verse: I want to screw, I want to screw, I want to scrutinize the facts |
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01 Jun 19 - 08:16 AM (#3994775) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: beachcomber " Oh God, the vulgarity !!!" as my dear old mother would have said :-) |
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23 Aug 19 - 07:23 PM (#4005688) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST i wanna man |
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23 Jul 21 - 05:36 PM (#4114193) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST I wanna neck, i wanna neck, i wanna necklace made of pearls, I wanna pet, i wanna pet, I wanna petticoat that swirls, and when the damn damn damn damn damage is done, we're gonna have ourselves some fun we'll have a son, we'll have a son, we'll have a sunny smile for you, we'll be like granny swinging on the outhouse door without her nighty grandpa's out there shouting for more without his nighty swinging on the outhouse dooor with me and my gal... *yeah* |
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24 Jul 21 - 01:55 PM (#4114270) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'I Want a Man' traditional (?) camp song From: GUEST,Oriel There are rumours of an "Old Maid's Hymn" which apparently starts "She wants a man, she wants a man, she wants a mansion in the sky" but I don't know if really exists. |