History Main / BawdySong

-->''Hear our LUSTY DRINKING SONG! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH! LUSTY DRINKING SONG! DRINKA-DRINKA-SONG!!!''

* Mentioned a number of times in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novels.

* JonathanCoulton's "First of May." "Celebrate spring with a crazy little thing called...[[spoiler:"fucking outside"]]

* Music/FrankZappa also has his fair share of badwy songs and tracks: "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?", "I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth", "Let's Make The Water Turn Black" (about two people he knew who collected urine and boogers), "Do You Like My New Car?" (about a band member and a groupie), "Penis Dimension", "Dinah Moe-Humm", "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes", "Bobby Brown Goes Down", "Ms. Pinky" (about a sex doll), "Dirty Love", "G-Spot Tornado",...

*** A version of "A Wizard's Staff" appears on the ''From The Discworld'' CD (words by Heather Wood, music by Dave Greenslade). The full lyrics (only some of which are used on the CD) can be found [[aheatherwood.com/wizard.htmlon on her website]].

* Mentioned a number of times in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novels. Two of Nanny Ogg's favorite tunes are "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered at All" and "A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End". In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', a drunken banker is described as singing "the sort of song that is hilarious to rugby players and anyone under the age of eleven". There was also the song "All The Little Angels (How Do They Rise Up)", a marching song from the novel ''Discworld/NightWatch'', and described as the best kind of song for old soldiers--sentimental, with dirty bits.
** Fans have of course written their own lyrics to Nanny Ogg's songs, some of which were printed in the aptly named fanzine ''The Wizard's Knob''. You really ''don't'' want to read them.
** This creativity on the part of the fans led to a priceless dedication in the UK edition of ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'': "To all those people - and why not? - who, after the publication of ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'', deluged the author with their version of the words of 'The Hedgehog Song'. Deary deary me..."
** A version of "A Wizard's Staff" appears on the ''From The Discworld'' CD (words by Heather Wood, music by Dave Greenslade).

For professional musician's songs with sexual themes, see IntercourseWithYou.

* The famous whistling scene in ''TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' is an attempt to get "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the radar]].

* In the movie ''HeartbreakRidge'' Creator/ClintEastwood's platoon sing ''Model T Ford and a tankful of gas, mouthful of pussy and a handful of ass!" while jogging past their stuck-up CO, Major Powers, who is standing next to a female marine. She is a good deal more amused than he is.
* Mondain from ''LesChoristes'', being the resident {{Delinquent}}, loves singing these in the face of the teachers. Maxence almost kicks him to the punishment room, before [[SaveOurStudents cheerful music teacher]] Mathieu notices his baritone would be great for his choir.

* ''ThisIsSpinalTap'' had songs such as "Big Bottom," "Sex Farm," and "Lick My Love Pump" (the latter played without lyrics)

* In ASongOfIceAndFire, any song that was a favorite of King Robert was probably bawdy. The lyrics aren't always disclosed, but they have titles like "Her Little Flower", "Milady's Supper", "Meggett Was a Merry Maid," "Six Maids in a Pool", and "When Willum's Wife Was Wet".

* In an episode of ''HiDeHi'', there is panic at the news that Old Partridge, the Punch-and-Judy man who hates children, is singing ''Eskimo Nell'' in front of the dear ickle kiddiwinks.

* And "Anything Goes" - the "Anything Goes" by Cole Porter, that is.

** Jazz trumpeter Bix Biederbeck made a film called ''The Boy with the Big Horn'' which for some reason had to be renamed on release in the UK...

* Period drama ''UpstairsDownstairs'' has one of these, and it's a ThemeTuneCameo, at that! In her music hall act, Sarah performs the stately march of the opening theme as a rollicking BawdySong, "What Are We Going to Do with Uncle Arthur?"

* In season three of ''XenaWarriorPrincess'', Joxer sings a bawdy version of his theme song, accompanied by an entire brothel. "Just check out my shoe size", indeed.

* Parodied on ''TheGilliesReport'' with a 'politically correct' version of ''The Good Ship Venus''. The first verse went:

* Fran asks Bernard to sing one of these in BlackBooks because he is Irish. He refuses, so she attempts one herself, in a very bad Irish accent.

* The [[MST3k Sir Thomas Neville Servo Consort of the Middle Ages Just After the Plague Singers]] followed up their "Aire On a Delta Knight" with one.

* ''{{Frasier}}'' and Niles:

* In ''{{Bottom}}'', Richie sings this version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sailor%27s_Hornpipe The Sailor's Hornpipe]]:

* In ''SpartacusBloodAndSand'', and its sequels, the gladiators have a song called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin My Cock Rages On]]". This is apparently the only song they know.

* In real life, many songs by TheWho have astonishingly risque lyrics ("Pictures of Lily", "Squeeze Box", "Mary Ann with the Shaky Hands" to name but three...)

* "Sally", by ThePolice is about a blow up doll ordered from "a special magazine".

* ''Hunting Girl'' by JethroTull deliberately weds the ancient traditions of bawdy folk songs with modern rock and roll.

* NickCaveAndTheBadSeeds' ''Easy Money'' is a narrative about a male prostitute. The lyric "He kissed me on the mouth / His hands they headed south / And my cheek it burned" is too subtle for some to completely give it away.

* The SexPistols' "Friggin' In The Riggin'" which is perhaps the best-known version of the old song "The Good Ship Venus."

* IvorBiggun does a great number of these including such gems as "Cue for a Song" which purports to be a traditional BawdySong about an old pool player who loses his balls on a cold and wintry night.

* The musical ''FunnyGirl'', which was InspiredBy the career of Broadway star and comedienne Fanny Brice, has a number in which the title character is performing a number in which she is dressed as a soldier going off to fight in World War I, and the song she sings references "Mademoiselle from Armentières" - which is a rather notorious bawdy song which was popular among British soldiers.
* In LeonardBernstein's opera ''A Quiet Place'', one of the characters has a psychotic episode where he starts cheerfully singing about how he had "sexy intercourse" with his sister and they "used to do it all the time" and they're NotBloodSiblings and so on.

* ''Film/TheWickerMan''. The customers at a pub engage in a lusty rendition of "The Landlord's Daughter", to the annoyance of the straightlaced protagonist and the amusement of Willow, the ReallyGetsAround daughter of the pub's landlord. As ChristopherLee said in the DVDCommentary, it's a good song for when you've got a pint in your hand.

-->-- Ribald song from '''Creator/RobertAHeinlein''''s ''To Sail Beyond the Sunset''

* Athena Prime's KnightsOfTheOldRepublic epic fanfic mentions a bawdy song called "The Starship Venus." Allronix, in her KOTOR fic, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2344822/1/Destinys_Pawn_Leviathan provides some of the lyrics]].

Many bawdy songs are themselves trope-laden, being replete with stereotyped characters, "wardrobe malfunctions", slapstick and cliches. Many are also examples of [[SatireParodyPastiche pastiche and parody]] or possibly FanFic, being set to the tune of "real" folk songs, pop songs etc.: for example, "Irian Jaya" to the tune of "Mull of Kintyre," "Masturbation" to "Alouette," "Incest is Best" and "Bestiality's Best" both to the tune of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport." Sometimes even national anthems ("Life Presents a Dismal Picture" to "Deutschland Über Alles" and "Ou Est La Papier" to "La Marseillaise"). Prisoners at Colditz Castle in UsefulNotes/WW2 had a lot of creative fun re-writing the German national anthem; the mildest version they came up with was Deutschland, Deutschland Ünter Alles''

: These are often... in fact, almost always... [[DrunkenSong sung when the character doing the singing is totally plastered]].

** For anyone who doesn't know the limerick in question, it's [[http://hashhymnal.webcomic.ws/comics/15/ this one]]

* Creator/MontyPython had a few of these, such as "Sit On My Face" (to the tune of "Sing As We Go") and "The Lumberjack Song".

* ''Videogame/{{Oblivion}}'' has "A Less Rude Song". Someone transcribed it at http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:A_Less_Rude_Song
** And [[http://www.imperial-library.info/content/rude-song the song it's less rude than]] appeared in ''Videogame/{{Daggerfall}}'', an earlier game in the Elder Scrolls series.

* ''Between Silk and Cyanide''. During WorldWar2 SOE was using a code based on a poem memorized by an agent. Given that most agents used commonly known poems that they remembered from school, Leo Marks encouraged his code section to make up their own poems to increase security, which got him in trouble with his superiors when someone came across some female decoders writing a dirty ditty about General De Gaulle. Later another superior is unamused when he finds a limerick Marks had written about woman of his acquaintance in TheOldestProfession; Marks quickly assures the officer that the poem was ''not'' meant for agents.

* ''Film/TheWickerMan''. The customers at a pub [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsaep-xLKG4 engage in a lusty rendition of "The Landlord's Daughter"]], to the annoyance of the straightlaced protagonist and the amusement of Willow, the ReallyGetsAround daughter of the pub's landlord. As ChristopherLee said in the DVDCommentary, it's a good song for when you've got a pint in your hand.

-->'''Potter''': Oh, I love to go swimming

* ''Between Silk and Cyanide''. During WorldWar2 SOE was using a code based on a poem memorized by an agent. Given that most agents used commonly known poems that they remembered from school, Leo Marks encouraged his code section to make up their own poems to increase security, which got him in trouble with his superiors when someone came across some female decoders writing a dirty ditty about General De Gaulle. Later another superior is unamused when he finds a limerick Marks had written about woman of his acquaintance in TheOldestProfession; Marks quickly assured the officer that the poem was ''not'' meant for agents.

* ''Between Silk and Cyanide''. During WorldWar2 SOE was using a code based on a poem memorized by an agent. Given that most agents used commonly known poems that they remembered from school, Leo Marks encouraged the women in his code section to make up their own poems, which got him in trouble with his superiors someone came across a group of them writing a dirty ditty about General De Gaulle. Later another superior is unamused when he finds a limerick Marks had written about woman of his acquaintance in TheOldestProfession; Marks quickly assured the officer that the poem was ''not'' meant for agents.