General Chat

You have, I am sure , realized that I have always moved in cultured and sophisticated circles and am extremely cultured myself.

This truly came to light the other day.

We were having tea, my troupe of strange men and I, OH, Fred's mate and M of the three wheeler, and watching the programme I had recorded about Lonnie Donegan.

His son, Peter, was explaining how the song 'My Old Man's a Dustman' evolved from a WW1 song 'My Old Man's a Soldier'. When he came to the chorus about some laying here and some laying there I joined in with delighted glee only my poor souls wasn't crying out for water, he was singing 'Rule Brittania'.

Not one of them joined in, they had never heard it before.

Wherever had they been?

I will elaborate and maybe you will get my gist.

My old man's a soldier,
He fought at the Battle of Mons.
He killed ten thousand Germans,
With just a hundred bombs.

Some lay here,some lay there,
Some lay round the corner.
One poor soul with a bullet ** *** ****
Singing 'Rule Brittania'.


Surely I am not alone in knowing this.

You're more sophisticated than most! That was the first time I'd even heard of the 'Soldier' version.

This is the only bit of the Dustman song I'm familiar with

Oh, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat

And the chorus from Rule Britannia.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
(accompanied by flag-waving)

I too have never heard soldier version only the Dustman one, a frequently sung ditty in my childhood residence :-D :-D :-D. Along with the chewing gum song too off course.

me neither :-D

Just look how cultured and sophisticated you are Sharron! I have never heard the soldiers version either ;-)

You do understand where the bullet was don't you?

:-D :-D Sharon you are so much more sophisticated than what I am.

I assume you mean his rectum....and that is probably what also happened when the bullet exited ;-) :-D :-D :-D

Rectum doesn't rhyme with soul.

I was being polite and not wishing to give the phantom RR'r another chance to exercise his/her itchy finger :-D

Kyber Pass :-D

New to me too lol

Lizxx

Allan.......... :-D :-D ;-) :-D :-D

:-D :-D :-D

I'm glad someone saw the joke ;-)

a bullet in his rissole?

no lunch for him then

Don't remember the full lyrics of the war version but do remember the line of some poor soul with a bullett the up his !!!!!!!! asked me for some water

As kiddies we would sing it with a twinkle of aren't we being naughty

But then we were sarf east lundeners lol
;-) ;-) ;-

Just remembered

My ole mans a dustman
He wears a dustmans hat
He killed 5 thousand Germans
Now wadja think of that
Some lay here some laid there
Some lay round the corner
Some poor bloke with a bullet up.his b.m
Asked him for some water >>>>

My ole mans a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He killed 5 thousand Germans
Now wadja think of that


edit theres more just came to mind

>>> water .water water came at last
I dont want your water ,stick it up your !!! oompa oompa stick it up yer jumper

my ole mans a dustman etc.

naughty brothers would sing stick it up yer Ar.e

Mum would say thats enough of that language :-0 :-0

B*m doesn't rhyme with soul, either ;-) :-D

Thank goodness there is somebody else on here who moves in cultured circles.

doesn't rhyme with rissole either