Strange songs you sang at Guides/Scouts
I had to look them up and it all came flooding back to me.
It was a song I learned at a camp when I was a girl guide in Dartford. When we all piled into the back of a lorry sat on top of all the kit and went off for a week of complete nonsense.
This was the one;
He jumped without a parachute from twenty thousand feet
He jumped without a parachute from twenty thousand feet
He jumped without a parachute from twenty thousand feet
And he ain’t gonna jump no more
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
And he ain’t gonna hump no more
He landed on the pavement like a lump of strawberry jam
He landed on the pavement like a lump of strawberry jam
He landed on the pavement like a lump of strawberry jam
And he ain’t gonna jump no more
They put him in a match box and they sent him home to mum
They put him in a match box and they sent him home to mum
They put him in a match box and they sent him home to mum
And he ain’t gonna jump no more
She put him on the mantel piece for everyone to see
She put him on the mantel piece for everyone to see
She put him on the mantel piece for everyone to see
And he ain’t gonna jump no more
She put him on the table when the Vicar came to tea
She put him on the table when the Vicar came to tea
She put him on the table when the Vicar came to tea
And he ain’t gonna jump no more
The Vicar spread him on some toast and said what lovely jam
The Vicar spread him on some toast and said what lovely jam
The Vicar spread him on some toast and said what lovely jam
And he ain’t gonna jump no more
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
Suspended by your braces when you don’t know how to fly
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
And he ain’t gonna jump no more
I mean, I think I must have been ten at the most 😳
It’s opened a can of worms in my head as loads are flooding back to me.
Anyone else remember any?
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This was another favourite
My father’s a lavatory cleaner
He works very hard for his bit
And when he comes home in the evening
He’s covered all over in…….
Shine Up your buttons with Brasso
It’s only three pence for a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths
But I doubt if they’ll have any in
Some say he died of a fever
Some say he died of a fit
But I know what my father died of
He died of the smell of the…….
Shine Up your buttons with Brasso
It’s only three pence for a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths
But I doubt if they’ll have any in
The day of my fathers funeral
Everything had to go right
So they opened the lid of the coffin
And threw in a bucket of………
Shine Up your buttons with Brasso
It’s only three pence for a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths
But I doubt if they’ll have any in
Some say that he’s buried in a graveyard
Some say that he’s buried in a pit
But I know where my father’s buried
He’s buried in six feet of……..
Shine Up your buttons with Brasso
It’s only three pence for a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths
But I doubt if they’ll have any in
Brilliant! 🤩
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Something about our Goolies... Thats'all I remember!4
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Ging gang, goolie goolie goolie goolie watcha / Ging gang goo, Ging gang gooGing gang, goolie goolie goolie goolie watcha / Ging gang goo, Ging gang gooHeyla, heyla sheyla / Heyla sheyla / Heyla, ho!Heyla, heyla sheyla / Heyla sheyla / Heyla, ho!Shallawalla, shallawalla! / Shallawalla, shallawalla!6
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Some of the same ones mentioned, which I'd forgotten all about until I read them!
Also:
My old man's a dustman,
A dustman my old man,
He took us to a football match, Tottenham v West Ham.
Fatty passed to skinny,
Skinny passed it back,
Fatty took a hell of a shot that knocked the keeper flat.
Where was the keeper, when the ball was in the net?
Halfway up a goalpost with his knickers round his neck.
And the "On top of spaghetti..." one about losing your meatball when somebody sneezed.3 -
Build a bonfire ? ...
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See this thread is gonna descend into all sorts of bawdy offerings...
Do ya balls hang low
Can ya swing 'em to and fro
Can ya tie 'em in a knot
Can ya tie 'em in a bow
Do ya get a funny feelin'
When they're hangin' from the ceiling
Oh ya never be a sailor if ya balls hang low...4 -
Yes! I remember that one & the spaghetti one!North Lower Neil said:Some of the same ones mentioned, which I'd forgotten all about until I read them!
Also:
My old man's a dustman,
A dustman my old man,
He took us to a football match, Tottenham v West Ham.
Fatty passed to skinny,
Skinny passed it back,
Fatty took a hell of a shot that knocked the keeper flat.
Where was the keeper, when the ball was in the net?
Halfway up a goalpost with his knickers round his neck.
And the "On top of spaghetti..." one about losing your meatball when somebody sneezed.On top of spagetti all covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezedIt rolled off the table, it rolled on the floor
And then my poor meatball rolled out of the doorIt rolled in the garden and under a bush
And then my poor meatball was nothing but mush.The mush was as tasty as tasty could be,
And early next summer it grew to a tree.The tree was all covered with beautiful moss
It grew great big meatballs and tomato sauce.So if you eat spaghetti all covered with cheesw,
Hold on to your meatball and don't ever sneeze.
Love it!3 -
Days were so much simpler then... Hours of innocent fun!1
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This had to be in contention for one of the weirdest threads of the year. I'm in my mid fifties and i don't have clue what's going on here!7
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The Mayor of Bayswater's Daughter.1
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She was only the Mayors daughter, but she let the borough surveyor!3
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There's a hole in my bucket...1
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She was only the fishmongers daughter..
But she lay on the slab and said fillet...
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I remember “I vow to thee my country” but then I was always a bit of a girlie swot
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I know one about someone going to see the Pope ……1
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I remember our Akela doing the "We're all going on a bear hunt......" story, sitting round the campfire in the woods in the Scout campsite in Downe0
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My dad had a book of these campfire songs. I can only remember The Quartermaster's Stores, which for some reason had the chorus "My eyes are dim, I cannot see, I have not brought my specs with me, I have not brought my specs with me."
My equivalent was a book of rugby songs, including The Good Ship Venus and I Don't Want to Join the Army.4 -
I can't remember exactly where we went but it felt like we were on the motorway for ages. It was probably made worse as being in the back of the lorry there wasn't any windows lolGribbo said:I remember our Akela doing the "We're all going on a bear hunt......" story, sitting round the campfire in the woods in the Scout campsite in Downe
But it was near a church cos we had a midnight walk through the graveyard lol
And one morning we woke up & our leaders bloomers were on the top of the flagpole.
Obviously all a total set up but we found it hilarious.
Brilliant time 🤣🤣0 -
Well he wouldn't if he had jumped 20000 feet without a parachuteKBslittlesis said:So I had a right strange dream the other night and some lyrics stayed with me all day that I was singing in the dream.
I had to look them up and it all came flooding back to me.
It was a song I learned at a camp when I was a girl guide in Dartford. When we all piled into the back of a lorry sat on top of all the kit and went off for a week of complete nonsense.
This was the one;He jumped without a parachute from twenty thousand feet
He jumped without a parachute from twenty thousand feet
He jumped without a parachute from twenty thousand feet
And he ain’t gonna jump no more
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
And he ain’t gonna hump no more
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Sound better when read out loud:
Arsehole
Arsehole
A soldier I shall be
Too piss
Too piss
Two pistols at my knee
Fuck you
Fuck you
For curiosity
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old country
I remember most of the other songs mentioned. I was a brownie, guide and then a young leader. Not sure I was a good influence on impressionable young girls!5 -
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One weekend in Downe, I was very young (a Cub), but was camping with the older Scouts as we were a very small group and my brother was a Scout at the time. I had an accident in the night and managed to creep out the tent to sort myself out. I took my under crackers off and threw them over a big hedge that was next to our tent. In the morning we all woke up and come out of the tent to see my shitty Y-fronts and loads of tissue in the hedge as I didn't throw it higher enough to clear it. Looked like a Christmas treeKBslittlesis said:
I can't remember exactly where we went but it felt like we were on the motorway for ages. It was probably made worse as being in the back of the lorry there wasn't any windows lolGribbo said:I remember our Akela doing the "We're all going on a bear hunt......" story, sitting round the campfire in the woods in the Scout campsite in Downe
But it was near a church cos we had a midnight walk through the graveyard lol
And one morning we woke up & our leaders bloomers were on the top of the flagpole.
Obviously all a total set up but we found it hilarious.
Brilliant time 🤣🤣5 -
This is the song I opened this thread to see.Wilma said:Sound better when read out loud:
Arsehole
Arsehole
A soldier I shall be
Too piss
Too piss
Two pistols at my knee
Fuck you
Fuck you
For curiosity
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old country
I remember most of the other songs mentioned. I was a brownie, guide and then a young leader. Not sure I was a good influence on impressionable young girls!Shame scout association sold off Downe during COVID. Was a place with many happy memories.3 -
Bloody hell, where did you go Brownies? Toxteth?Wilma said:Sound better when read out loud:
Arsehole
Arsehole
A soldier I shall be
Too piss
Too piss
Two pistols at my knee
Fuck you
Fuck you
For curiosity
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old country
I remember most of the other songs mentioned. I was a brownie, guide and then a young leader. Not sure I was a good influence on impressionable young girls!9 -
The hairs on her dicky dido, one red one, one white one and one with a bit of ....
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One of the verses of the quartermaster song wentBangkokaddick said:My dad had a book of these campfire songs. I can only remember The Quartermaster's Stores, which for some reason had the chorus "My eyes are dim, I cannot see, I have not brought my specs with me, I have not brought my specs with me."
My equivalent was a book of rugby songs, including The Good Ship Venus and I Don't Want to Join the Army.
“There were chips, chips as big as battleships in the store in the store
there were chips chips as big as battleships in the quartermasters store”
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Nah, Dartford!AFKABartram said:
Bloody hell, where did you go Brownies? Toxteth?Wilma said:Sound better when read out loud:
Arsehole
Arsehole
A soldier I shall be
Too piss
Too piss
Two pistols at my knee
Fuck you
Fuck you
For curiosity
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old country
I remember most of the other songs mentioned. I was a brownie, guide and then a young leader. Not sure I was a good influence on impressionable young girls!0 -
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Simpler times....0
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It was clearly a Dartford thing then as I remember that one too 🤣🤣Wilma said:
Nah, Dartford!AFKABartram said:
Bloody hell, where did you go Brownies? Toxteth?Wilma said:Sound better when read out loud:
Arsehole
Arsehole
A soldier I shall be
Too piss
Too piss
Two pistols at my knee
Fuck you
Fuck you
For curiosity
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old c...
Fight for the old country
I remember most of the other songs mentioned. I was a brownie, guide and then a young leader. Not sure I was a good influence on impressionable young girls!1 -
I loved the Goons 🤗1
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