History Main / BawdySong

* The famous whistling scene in ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' is an attempt to get "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the radar]]. The song is called the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bogey_March "Colonel Bogey March"]] and has been a favorite for adding smutty lyrics to since 1914. It was supposedly inspired by an officer who whistled the first two notes instead of shouting "fore" on the golf course, so the song was insulting even when given its original title. Or not, considering that a "bogey" then, was what we today call a "par". Being called a scratch-player is probably NOT an insult anywhere.

*** [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Interestingly safe]], as, unless you'd actually heard the song you [[UnusualEuphemism wouldn't know for sure what a ''dickie di-do'' was]]. It's exactly as bad as you might suspect -- the following is a relatively ''tame'' verse;

* Period drama ''Series/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 Bawdy Song, "What Are We Going to Do with Uncle Arthur?" (The complete lyrics are [[http://www.updown.org.uk/sounds/lyrics.htm here]].)

* "[[BalladOfX Ballad of Lydia Pinkham]]", an anonymous ditty proclaiming her vegetable tonic's supposed "cures" for everything from infertility to penis size.

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

* Da Vinci's Notebook: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4vBZ4Z7wjY My Enormous Penis]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Go on, guess what it's about.]]

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

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' has several of the campfire songs sung by the Van der Linde gang, particularly those sung during celebrations such as after the rescues of Sean [=MacGuire=] and [[spoiler:Jack Marston]].

* During the Golden Age ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' comics, Etta Candy's Beta Kappa sorority was full of feminine frat girls who loved beating up Nazis and singing bawdy songs about their sexual desire for men.

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For professional musician's songs with sexual themes, see IntercourseWithYou. Compare the SoundOff, which is similar in that it can be quite rude and is typically a piece of oral tradition, but is somewhat less musical. A {{Limerick}} is a short poetic form that also often can have a bawdy theme. [[noreallife]]

*** 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 [[http://aheatherwood.com/wizard.html on her website]].

*** 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..."

** 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.
** Pratchett deconstructs this kind of song in ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'', including a scene where the squad of [[SweetPollyOliver female soldiers]] criticize the numerous DoubleEntendre-laden songs treating as humorous a man [[MyGirlIsNotASlut seducing a woman and then abandoning her when she's pregnant]].

** Then there's this from ''Discworld/{{Eric}}'': "-- vestal virgins, Came down from [[OverlyLongName Heliodeliphilodelphiboschromenos]], And when the ball was over, There were --" which alludes to "The Ball of Kerrymuir". Google at your leisure, [[NotSafeForWork preferably at home.]] The verse in question, the only clean one in the entire (extremely long) song:

** ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' gives a mention to "Gathering Rhubarb" as a "...song you can snigger along to...". While there are no lyrics given in the book, the Creator/CosgroveHall animated adaptation did include it. The version used in the actual production is cut short, but it can be heard in full (and with transcribed lyrics) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rcPV8fnkQo here.]]
** ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'' mentions, "Lord Vetinari seldom had balls. There was a popular song about it, in fact."
** ''Discworld/TheShepherdsCrown'' ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Wait, isn't the Tiffany Aching series for children?!]]) has the old soldiers sing:

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* Subverted in EvanDorkin's ''ComicBook/FunWithMilkAndCheese'', in the renaissance fair episode, which has Milk and Cheese singing their "Lusty Drinking Song":

*** To read the whole thing, go [[http://hashhymnal.webcomic.ws/comics/55/ here]]

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'''[[MesACrowd Servo, Servo, Servo and Girl-Servo:]]''' ''Oh, I love to mush me buckles in me missus' pigeon pie,'' \\

** Beautifully [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion Subverted Rhyme]] - the expected word would be "Love," to rhyme to "grass below you, sky ''above''".
* [[Music/PaulAndStorm The Captain's Wife's Lament]]. [[{{Pun}} Sea-men everywhere]].

** The episode "Beer" mentions a couple of songs that ''might'' be these: the unheard "I'm Merlin the Happy Pig" and the unnamed [[OrphanedPunchline partly-heard]] song about a goblin.

* Karen Finley's [[https://youtu.be/Rrr4qNJJ7U8 "Tales of Taboo"]]. (Warning: [[UpToEleven]] extremely {{NSFW}})

* In the movie ''Film/HeartbreakRidge'' Creator/ClintEastwood's platoon sing "Model T Ford and a tankful of gas, handful of pussy and a mouthful 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.