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A song or poem which includes ribaldry for purposes of bonding and general letting-off-steam. May also be called a Barrack-room Ballad, a Rugby Song or a Hash Hymn. The level of ribaldry may range from mere Double Entendre to the kind of explicit lyrics that send Moral Guardians into conniptions.
Such songs are sometimes used as a Curse Cut Short, a character will be singing a well-known bawdy song and cut off a split-second before actually singing anything obscene. Including snatches of bawdy songs in a scene indicates that characters are becoming relaxed and uninhibited (at the very least). If the song happens to be something as explicit as "The Good Ship Venus" or "Barnacle Bill the Sailor," they are probably way past just "relaxed".
An unseen incident of the singing of a bawdy song may be used to indicate that someone was drunk and disorderly or otherwise "out of order", especially if children, nuns or The Vicar happened to be present. Allusion to the vicar knowing such a song is a deliberate example of incongruity. Rick the Vic from Hellblazer probably knows them all.
In order to indicate that an older character is a "bad influence" on children, a child may sing a bawdy song after visiting him/her. In such cases the chosen song is usually one of the less explicit examples, "Roll Me Over in the Clover," for example.
Many bawdy songs are themselves trope-laden, being replete with stereotyped characters, "wardrobe malfunctions", slapstick and cliches. Many are also examples of pastiche and parody or possibly Fan Fic, 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 World War II 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... sung when the character doing the singing is totally plastered. A Horny Bard will always have several of these on hand to show off their musical (and sexual) talents.
For professional musician's songs with sexual themes, see Intercourse with You. Compare the Sound Off, 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.
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There was also the song "All The Little Angels (How Do They Rise Up)", a marching song from the novel Night Watch, and described as the best kind of song for old soldiers — sentimental, with dirty bits.
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Then there's this from Eric: "— vestal virgins, Came down from Heliodeliphilodelphiboschromenos, And when the ball was over, There were —" which alludes to "The Ball of Kerrymuir". Google at your leisure, preferably at home. The verse in question, the only clean one in the entire (extremely long) song:
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The Wicker Man (1973):
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 Really Gets Around daughter of the pub's landlord. As Christopher Lee said in the DVD Commentary, it's a good song for when you've got a pint in your hand.
The full version of "The Tinker of Rye" (sung by Diane Cilento and Lee himself) might count as an example even if it doesn't sound like one, less bawdy and more reliant on subtle Double Entendres.
In contrast, "Gently Johnny" is sweet, gentle, and romantic, but by far the most explicit song in the movie.
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In Othello, Desdemona's "Willow Tree" song, though not bawdy by today's standards, would have been considered a bit risque in Elizabethan times due to its subject matter.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic play, The School for Scandal (1777) features one of these. It sounds mild today, naturally, due to changing language and values.
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Mondain from The Chorus, being the resident Delinquent, loves singing these in the face of the teachers. Maxence almost kicks him to the punishment room, before cheerful music teacher Mathieu notices his baritone would be great for his choir.
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A Jolly Bad Fellow: After being drugged by Professor Bowles-Ottery, Dr. Brass is arrested while dancing drunkenly through a graveyard without his trousers and singing a risqué song. Only the last few lines are actually, so there is nothing too objectionable, but the style of song is unmistakable.
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The Heist: Monaco: In one of the premium choices in chapter 13, you can ask your hacker to play a rap with dirty words describing explicit sexual acts after hacking Ansel's cell phone.
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There's a passing mention in The Once and Future King of an old song about an Old King seeing with each verse more and more of a fair maiden. We only hear the (heavily-accented) first verse:
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In Bottom, Richie sings this version of The Sailor's Hornpipe:
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Referenced a couple of times in the Redwall series, but Narrative Profanity Filter blocks most of them. The only one we see is more Gorn, when Blaggut and Slipp consider "Slaughter of the Crew of the Rusty Chain" an appropriate song to sing in front of children.
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The Simpsons:
In episode "Deep Space Homer", Homer tries to impress the NASA observers by doing cartwheels while singing a "I once met a man from Nantucket" limerick. He crashes into the wall before he can get to the bawdy part, however.
While a rarely-sobered up Barney Gumble manages to cartwheel all the way up through the first verses of the "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operetta The Pirates of Penzance.
The same limerick is referred to in another episode:
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The Name of the Wind: Kvothe gets back at his university nemesis Ambrose Jakis by composing and publicly performing the song "Jackass, Jackass". It becomes quite popular in town with its simple, catchy tune and ribald lyrics about a donkey who wants to become an arcanist.
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Surprisingly (or not, depending on how you see the movie), Coraline has one in the form of Other Spink and Other Forcible's stage play, in which they argue over whether the ass or the boobs are more important when seducing men.
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Mojo Nixon has several, most notoriously "Tie My Pecker to My Leg."
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The Doctor Who Expanded Universe has Venusian expert Benny Summerfield reveal that the "Venusian lullaby" the Doctor sings to Aggedor in the Peladon stories is actually "one of the most bawdy rhymes in the known universe". The Doctor replies "Venusian is a language as dead as dead can be. If I say it's a lullaby, it's a lullaby."
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? parodies this with the Irish Drinking Song game. Sometimes it fails to be a parody.
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In an episode of Hi-de-Hi!, 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.
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David Allan Coe, with some help by Shel Silverstein penned and recorded two albums, Underground Album and Nothing Sacred, which largely consisted of these songs. "Little Susie Shallow-Throat" and "(I Love) Itty-Bitty Titties" are two of the songs, to provide an example.
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Part of one is sung by the Rat Queens.
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The Witcher (2019): Jaskier performs "The Fishmonger's Daughter" at Pavetta of Cintra's engagement party.
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In Hamlet, after Ophelia goes insane, she starts singing these.
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In The Wounded Sky, a "bawdy ballad about the (improbable) offspring of the marriage between an Altasa and a Vulcan" is mentioned.
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In addition to the quote at the top of the article, Heinlein's short story "The Green Hills of Earth" has old blind Rhysling, the Singer of the Spaceways, as the protagonist. Some of his songs, while not quoted, are referred to as "unfit for publication in a family magazine" by the narrator. A Spacesuit Built For Two is mentioned, so that might be one.
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The War Against the Chtorr. While in the shower McCarthy sings, A Bisexual Built for Two (a pun on the Daisy Bell lyrics "A bicycle built for two"). Anthony Boucher has the same in The Quest for Saint Aquin where it's A Spacesuit Built for Two.
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In a sort of meta-example, the song 'Oom Pah-Pah' from the musical Oliver! both refers to this kind of song and is a very mild example itself.
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Discworld:
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".
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 Witches Abroad: "To all those people — and why not? — who, after the publication of Wyrd Sisters, 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). The full lyrics (only some of which are used on the CD) can be found on her website. She also wrote a version of "The Hedgehog Song", to be sung to the tune of "Bonnie Dundee".
In Going Postal, 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 Night Watch, and described as the best kind of song for old soldiers — sentimental, with dirty bits.
Pratchett deconstructs this kind of song in Monstrous Regiment, including a scene where the squad of female soldiers criticize the numerous Double Entendre-laden songs treating as humorous a man seducing a woman and then abandoning her when she's pregnant. The actual song honoring their division is a subversion; a girl trips while carrying a cheese and her bodice comes undone, so the soldier steals the cheese.
Then there's this from Eric: "— vestal virgins, Came down from Heliodeliphilodelphiboschromenos, And when the ball was over, There were —" which alludes to "The Ball of Kerrymuir". Google at your leisure, preferably at home. The verse in question, the only clean one in the entire (extremely long) song:
Soul Music gives a mention to "Gathering Rhubarb" as a "...song you can snigger along to...". While there are no lyrics given in the book, the Cosgrove Hall 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) here.
Guards! Guards! mentions, "Lord Vetinari seldom had balls. There was a popular song about it, in fact."
The Shepherd's Crown (Wait, isn't the Tiffany Aching series for children?!) has the old soldiers sing:
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In the Twilight Highlands of World of Warcraft, Alliance players must unite the bickering clans of Wildhammer dwarves, so a wedding between two of the most ardent feuders is planned. For the wedding, the bard enlists the help of the player to write a fitting song for the occasion, which can be "bawdy," "romantic," or "silly." The bawdiest version of the song speaks of the bride's "man-crushing thighs," the groom's "love for [her] chest," and both of them together being "tight."
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Guns N' Roses have many sexual songs, but "Cornchucker" (NSFW lyrics!), only performed once, is an extreme case.
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In Mare Genius, the mane 6 get high on liniment and sing Discworld's The Hedgehog Song
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In Dream Park, Gamers keep each others' spirits up while trekking around the Gaming areas with hearty renditions of the likes of "Cats on the Rooftops", the dirtiest verses of "That Real Old Time Religion", and (of course!) "The Ballad of Eskimo Nell". In its sequel The Barsoom Project, a modest Gamer bribes another not to finish singing the latter in mixed company; the bribe-giver's brother promptly starts singing "Kafoozalem" instead.
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A group of soldiers sing "Roll Me Over in the Clover" at the end of The Naked and the Dead.
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Xena: Warrior Princess:
In season three, Joxer sings a bawdy version of his theme song, accompanied by an entire brothel. "Just check out my shoe size", indeed.
Also, Gabrielle's little ditty in "Fins, Femmes, and Gems".
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Athena Prime's Knights of the Old Republic epic fanfic mentions a bawdy song called "The Starship Venus". Allronix, in her KOTOR fic, provides some of the lyrics.
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Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is filled with bawdy song, much as the original text was.
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This is Spın̈al Tap had songs such as "Big Bottom," "Sex Farm," and "Lick My Love Pump" (the latter played without lyrics). Nigel sits down at a piano and plays something that sounds vaguely classical. He explains it's a kind of cross between Mozart and Bach. It's only at this point that he reveals the title is "Lick My Love Pump". This is, of course, a reference to Mozart's canon "Lick Me in the Arse". Yes, that's the translation of the title.
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Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic features "the one about the lady and the sausage-maker".
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In Rising Star (an adaption of Sonic the Hedgehog 2), Sonic suggests Tails should sing something during their trip through Casino Night Zone. As it's revealed, Tails spent too much time hanging out behind the local bar...
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Parodied on The Gillies Report with a 'politically correct' version of The Good Ship Venus. The first verse went:
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Vow of Nudity: The shamelessly-sexist shanty Haara's opponent (and his watching crewmates) sings during a musical duel in Skies of the Damned.
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In Wolves of the Calla in the Dark Tower series, during the party after the gunslingers arrive, the Calla Bryn Sturgis folk sing a song in their own dialect that the gunslingers can't understand, but Eddie guesses that it's a bawdy song from the people's laughter.
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The Sims:
In the Sims 2 Freetime expansion pack, you can unlock the ability to sing a "Rowdy Folk Song". It's actually just "Row, row, row your boat" in Simlish. Of course, as it's Simlish, it could be incredibly sexually explicit and nobody would know.
The Sims Medieval has "Ne'er to Woohoo Again" as one of the songs a Bard character can sing.
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In Life With Lamarr, the Cactus sings one.
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The Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfic People in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (the pairing is Lt. Jee/Zuko). Zuko's crew sings a song called "The Balls of Captain Zhao" set to the tune of "The Girls from Ba Sing Se". Sadly, the song's full lyrics are never given (though this just might make the song funnier), but they allegedly describe a made-up incident in which Zhao got his balls cut off and cooked into soup by a Water Tribe woman. Zhao is not a fan of this song.
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In Going Postal, a drunken banker is described as singing "the sort of song that is hilarious to rugby players and anyone under the age of eleven".
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The Shepherd's Crown (Wait, isn't the Tiffany Aching series for children?!) has the old soldiers sing:
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The Dune series has the slightly bawdy song that is not explicitly given a title in the series, focusing mainly on prostitution:
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Pratchett deconstructs this kind of song in Monstrous Regiment, including a scene where the squad of female soldiers criticize the numerous Double Entendre-laden songs treating as humorous a man seducing a woman and then abandoning her when she's pregnant. The actual song honoring their division is a subversion; a girl trips while carrying a cheese and her bodice comes undone, so the soldier steals the cheese.
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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 Witches Abroad: "To all those people — and why not? — who, after the publication of Wyrd Sisters, deluged the author with their version of the words of 'The Hedgehog Song'. Deary deary me..."
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Most of the chapter headers of Alexis Carew: The Queen's Pardon consist of a stanza from a sea shanty about the events of the book, including at two points a Last-Second Word Swap of "oooooh" for respectively "cock" and "fuck". In the epilogue the admirals are scandalized by it, but Queen Annalise finds it hilarious.
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In The Goodies episode "Wacky Wales", the Goodies realise that the Druids who are about to sacrifice them are, in fact, a rugby team when they start singing "If I Was the Marrying Kind".
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"Galdwyn was a Shieldmaiden", in The Lord of the Rings fandom.
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A film parodying British sex comedies of the 1970s is titled Eskimo Nell after the most notorious bawdy song of them all.
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In an episode of Dad's Army, there is reference to Godfrey singing a song about a monk while in the pub.
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Girl Genius "Jagerchorus", while we never hear any of it, is implied to be this — knowing the Jagermonsters it's a worthy entry in this category.
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A few lines of different bawdy songs will appear on M*A*S*H every once in a while, most notably one Colonel Potter (a WWII vet) sings:
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After getting roaring drunk at the funeral of Skull Ridges, Digger apparently tried to teach the hyenas a wombat song of this nature.
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The Wheel of Time (The Dragon Reborn, to be precise) has a song about an easy girl from Lugard sung in a rowdy Illianer tavern. The beginning is given and sounds rather innocent, but the rest, not given by Jordan, mightily embarrasses Perrin who takes some time to understand what precisely is this song about.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000:
In "The Starfighters", the United Servo Academy Men's Chorus attempt to follow up their academy hymn with a performance of "The Mademoiselle from Armentières" (a/k/a "Hinky Dinky Parlez-vous").
Not the last time a choir of Tom Servos have tried to sneak a bawdy song into the show. In "Quest of the Delta Knights", the Sir Thomas Neville Servo Consort of the Middle-Ages-Just-After-the-Plague Singers follow up their "Aire on a Delta Knight" with one.
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: During the Golden Age 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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In real life, many songs by The Who have astonishingly risque lyrics ("Pictures of Lily", "Squeeze Box", "Mary Ann with the Shaky Hands" to name but three...) Although in all fairness, "Squeeze Box" is — according to Pete Townshend — a perfectly clean song about a woman who owns an accordion, written to sound like an extended Double Entendre.
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The Elder Scrolls:
Daggerfall has the "Rude Song".
Later games in the series instead have "A Less Rude Song"
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, any song that is a favorite of King Robert is 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". Among the songs whose lyrics are disclosed is "The Bear and the Maiden Fair," which is kind of exactly what it sounds like (but it may also be in-universe political satire). "The Dornishman's Wife" is just as explicit, with references to the Dornish weapon of choice, the "spear".
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X Japan has a fair amount of these. Of course there's Orgasm, then there is Stab Me In The Back which is man on man Intercourse with You and Bawdy Song, Standing Sex, and White Poem I, though White Poem is an Obligatory Bondage Song celebrating masochism... all of these are obviously Intercourse with You, but when performed live...
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When Hans, a Nazi, is trapped in a POW camp in 'Allo 'Allo! he "proves" he's British by beginning to sing "Hitler has only got one ball" before he's interrupted.
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There is one printed in the format of a Jack Chick Author Tract here
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In South Park: The Stick of Truth, Jimmy the Bard casts a buff spell by singing a bawdy song about "The Maiden of Stonebury Hollow" ("...who was also Your Mom").
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The 2007 film version of Beowulf has the Geats singing songs of this sort.
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Game of Thrones: "The Bear and the Maiden Fair", a humorous song describing a sexual tryst between the eponymous bear and maiden.
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AC/DC
"Big Balls".
"Mistress for Christmas".
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In Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and its sequels, the gladiators have a song called "My Cock Rages On". This is apparently the only song they know.
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Ghost of a Tale has a minstrel for a player character, and naturally one of the songs in his repertoire is one of these. "The Rat with Two Tails" involves a badger queen, her knickers, and a rat with, well, think about it. (One suspects it might be a lot longer than is shown, but Tilo edits for time and decency.)
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In The Mathematics of Magic by L. Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt, Harold Shea and his companions are captured by The Blatant Beast, and it demands that they recite an epic poem that it hasn't heard before as their ransom for release. The only problem is that the only lengthy poem any of them knows by heart, that the Beast hasn't already heard, is The Ballad of Eskimo Nell.
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In a similar vein, there was a Mouseketeers take-off on Tiny Toon Adventures where a wheel would be spun to see who would get the next cartoon.
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Unsounded: In chapter 14, Duane and Lemuel sing a song to the other soldiers in their unit about how Soud girls are better than girls from the other castes. It has everyone laughing. It's also very very dirty.
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A skit in I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again parodying Listen With Mother (a BBC children's show) presented a song by an Irish folk group. The show's host, appalled at the song's increasingly-bawdy lyrics, finally cleared the group out of the studio by reminding them that the pubs had just opened (at which point they suddenly stampeded off).
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Fran asks Bernard to sing one of these in Black Books because he is Irish. He refuses, so she attempts one herself, in a very bad Irish accent.
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Blackadder:
The episode "Beer" mentions a couple of songs that might be these: the unheard "I'm Merlin the Happy Pig" and the unnamed partly-heard song about a goblin.
Edmund's goblin song. Think about it: the "nosey-wose" is a certain something found between men's legs, and the "feet" are two certain somethings on each side of it... And, of course, "Isn't the goblin (gobbling) sweet?" - "YES!!!"
Plus one that definitely is:
Interestingly safe, as, unless you'd actually heard the song you 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;
Another song that is merely referred to in the fourth season is apparently called "I May Be a Tiny Chimney Sweep but I've Got an Enormous Brush".
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There's a Doctor Who fanfic in which the Doctor's asked what the rudest song he knows is — apparently, it's "a toss-up between 'The Lonely Little Academy Girl' and 'Och Aye! 'Tis Rassilon's Mighty Firm Rod'" (the latter of which apparently runs to about fifty-four verses).
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Kevin Bloody Wilson. Go and look him up on YouTube.
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The famous whistling scene in The Bridge on the River Kwai is an attempt to get "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" past the radar. The song is called the "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.
"Colonel Bogey March" inspired a Call-Back of sorts about a decade after Bridge On The River Kwai was released when the Smothers Brothers did a comedic performance of the South African marching tune "Marching to Pretoria" in which they briefly stopped the song to discuss their favorite marching songs. They briefly reference "Colonel Bogey" (which they mistakenly call "March of the River Kwai") and note that you could never sing it because it was all whistling...then surmise that the song's lyrics must have been dirty, which is why they had to be whistled instead. Then, when they start singing again, one of them shifts to whistling just as their improvised lyrics are getting really naughty, prompting the audience to laugh.
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In The Legend of Total Drama Island, the Muskies sing several such songs after dinner during the camping challenge, including "Barnacle Bill the Sailor". They would even have sung "The Good Ship Venus" if enough of them had known the words.
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Period drama Upstairs Downstairs has one of these, and it's Diegetic Soundtrack Usage, 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 here.)
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On Round the Horne there was Kenneth Williams' character of Rambling Syd Rumpo, an itinerant folk singer of questionable old English ballads packed with double entendre and general murkiness.
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The Cinder Spires: Retired marine Ferus leads a taproom in a rousing chorus of a ditty known as "Farmer's Long Pickle". The contents of the lyrics are not divulged, beyond that thinking up new verses is a favored pastime on ships, that the best verses have been handed down for generations, and hearing one verse is enough to make Gwendolyn embarrassed, morally outraged and slightly queasy.
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In the 2010 Robin Hood movie, there is a scene in which a lute-playing member of the Merry Men starts to sing this song:
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The Poxy Boggards sing so many of them they've come out with an album full of them, entitled "Bawdy Parts".
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In Hellblazer, John Constantine frequently sings these when drunk or sentimental, for example, during a The Books of Magic crossover, he was singing "The Good Ship Venus" but cut off suddenly at the sight of the still-underage Tim Hunter. On the occasion of his Forgotten Birthday he was singing "The Woodpecker's Hole" while relieving himself in an alley, breaking off as he realised he'd pissed on The Phantom Stranger's boots.
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The Howard Stern Show has a whole bunch of these about Robin Quivers. A notable one is "I Want Robin's Bunghole" to the tune of "Welcome to The Jungle".
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Prince Roger has a scene in which a group of thoroughly inebriated space marines sing a song about someone called "Three-Ball Pete".
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Soul Music gives a mention to "Gathering Rhubarb" as a "...song you can snigger along to...". While there are no lyrics given in the book, the Cosgrove Hall 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) here.
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Red Dead Redemption II 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 Jack Marston, as well as the Ozark folk song "I've Got a Girl/Gal in Berryville" sung by Karen, Tilly, and Mary-Beth while driving the wagon during "Polite Society, Valentine Style".
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Ivor Biggun does a great number of these including such gems as "Cue for a Song" which purports to be a traditional Bawdy Song about an old pool player who loses his balls on a cold and wintry night.
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Danilo Thann, a bard from Forgotten Realms novels by Elaine Cunningham, used to sing these as a part of his Upper-Class Twit image and even wrote some himself. The books include a few fragments of the "Ballad of the Zhentish Raiders" who "kill off all the women / For they much prefer the sheep" and "Elminster's Jest" (see its full lyrics).
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Daggerfall has the "Rude Song".
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There are loads of bawdy songs from older times; many were "catches" - rounds which, when all the parts were added in, had dirty lyrics start to pop out of otherwise clean verses. Others were just blatantly filthy; still others were "clean"-ish when explained, such as My Man John.
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In the Star Trek: Voyager parody The Voyorgy Conspiracy, in revenge for being given a Creepy Physical, B'Elanna Torres reprograms the Doctor to sing the Klingon drinking song "My Bat'leth Is Bigger Than Yours" during an opera performance for the crew.
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The Sims Medieval has "Ne'er to Woohoo Again" as one of the songs a Bard character can sing.
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RCN, a troupe of mummers sings one at the wake for Daniel's Uncle Stacy, a swashbuckling sailor in his own right. It includes one of the very few F-bombs in the series.
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Frasier: Frasier and Niles:
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hide's live-only song "Natural Born Onanist". Fits here since it seems to have been live-only: it was never released as a studio recording.
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Guards! Guards! mentions, "Lord Vetinari seldom had balls. There was a popular song about it, in fact."
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