I love this song. It reminds me of a bygone age....my happy childhood filled with laughter, joy and innocent fun. Sometimes, children would huddle together giggling to hear the rudest word.....usually 'bum' or 'poo'!!!! :)
@katmandolino I was 11 when I first heard the "F" word. Common usage today from a very early age! Old people in the town blamed the evacuees from London in 1940, for the introduction of such words! Memories are long round here!
We now consider these words to be very tame - will the day come when we will take the modern 'shock' swear words as being very tame? When you hear 5 year olds telling their mums to eff off will the next generation consider those words inconsequential and bring in their own swear words? Please can we have back poo, bum, knickers & drat? My own favourite - piggypoos. You can get a lot of anger out & it makes children laugh.
In song are named Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsburg, Fanny Hill? No I don't think F & S were pretending to be children. Fanny Hill was not the usual bedtime fare when I was a child. Banned wasn't it. People went to jail for selling it. This song was just a comment on the modern use of rude words, a wee bit less rudely worded then Lenny Bruce might have done. My husband who is English finds the use of the word "belly'" (as opposed to stomach or abdomen) to be low brow and crude and will not use it.
In song are named Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsburg, Fanny Hill? No I don't think F & S were pretending to be children. Fanny Hill was not the usual bedtime fare when I was a child. Banned wasn't it. People went to jail for selling it. This song was just a comment on the modern use of rude words, a wee bit less rudely worded then Lenny Bruce might have done. My husband who is English finds the use of the word "belly'" (as opposed to stomach or abdomen) to be low brow and crude and will not use it.
Fanny Hill quintesentially English! Belly is commonly used and like your husband I prefer stomach or "tummy" to little children, but hearing today's langauge from children I despair. In the street conversations seem to consist of swear words for every adjective or adverb and even nouns! Many parents also use such profanities. I never ever heard my parents swear. "Ma's out Pa's out let's talk rude, Pee Po Belly Bum Drawers." I prefer bum to - ar*e from the common vernacular. The song is ironic.
@jonjamg I too despair at current usage of language in that with the common inclusion of profanity in everything, we seem to have lost profanity in anything. There no longer seem special words to express appropriately the intensity of anger, heartfelt irritation, frustration or hitting ones thumb with a hammer. The entire rich lexicon of our forebears seems to have shrunk to just those few words for use on every occasion. I think it is a symptom of turning louts into cultural heroes.
During the 1980s in schools we were supposedly to accept the children's language and not to correct their Enlgish! Teachers were too BBC! This is now the generation of parents that swear at their kids and then parents complain because their child has heard poor language in the playgound! I ignored directives and carried on accepting only correct English and promoted manners when speaking to one another but it's an uphill struggle! I feel as if I am back at the bottom of the hill!
This was recorded in America and is 1950s humour . F & S are pretending to be young children talking rude..... pee po belly bum drawers were considered to be impolite words.
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boptobe42 5 months ago
I love this song. It reminds me of a bygone age....my happy childhood filled with laughter, joy and innocent fun. Sometimes, children would huddle together giggling to hear the rudest word.....usually 'bum' or 'poo'!!!! :)
katmandolino 7 months ago 2
@katmandolino I was 11 when I first heard the "F" word. Common usage today from a very early age! Old people in the town blamed the evacuees from London in 1940, for the introduction of such words! Memories are long round here!
jonjamg 7 months ago
My dad got me listening to Flanders & Swann since I was five. He's the best. And so are they. :)
TheItiod 8 months ago
I played this to my 17 year old autistic daughter - see laughed till she cried.
Cyberbia110 9 months ago 2
@Cyberbia110 I am sure that Flanders and Swann would have considered her to be their best audience!
jonjamg 9 months ago 2
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Cyberbia110 9 months ago
love it , i got to sing so wish me luck singing it like this it amazing
b555b1 1 year ago
We now consider these words to be very tame - will the day come when we will take the modern 'shock' swear words as being very tame? When you hear 5 year olds telling their mums to eff off will the next generation consider those words inconsequential and bring in their own swear words? Please can we have back poo, bum, knickers & drat? My own favourite - piggypoos. You can get a lot of anger out & it makes children laugh.
OrchardFairy 1 year ago
@OrchardFairy
I told some of my pupils they were talking "piffle"! They thought that was great - so much better than cr*p!
jonjamg 1 year ago
@OrchardFairy these words were tame even then. that's why it was such a joke
hojucandy 1 year ago 2
Hmmmm.... I grew up in Nova Scotia, we always sang it:
Mom's out, Dad's out, let's talk rude!
Pee, poo, piddle, bum, drawers!
I didn't know it was Flanders & Swam until now. Good fun!
bluenoserr 1 year ago 2
@bluenoserr Oh well no accounting for kids in Nova Scotia!! Regards - Jon
jonjamg 1 year ago
@jonjamg ...you're more correct than you probably know! :D
bluenoserr 1 year ago
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In song are named Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsburg, Fanny Hill? No I don't think F & S were pretending to be children. Fanny Hill was not the usual bedtime fare when I was a child. Banned wasn't it. People went to jail for selling it. This song was just a comment on the modern use of rude words, a wee bit less rudely worded then Lenny Bruce might have done. My husband who is English finds the use of the word "belly'" (as opposed to stomach or abdomen) to be low brow and crude and will not use it.
TamarZucker 1 year ago
In song are named Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsburg, Fanny Hill? No I don't think F & S were pretending to be children. Fanny Hill was not the usual bedtime fare when I was a child. Banned wasn't it. People went to jail for selling it. This song was just a comment on the modern use of rude words, a wee bit less rudely worded then Lenny Bruce might have done. My husband who is English finds the use of the word "belly'" (as opposed to stomach or abdomen) to be low brow and crude and will not use it.
TamarZucker 1 year ago
Fanny Hill quintesentially English! Belly is commonly used and like your husband I prefer stomach or "tummy" to little children, but hearing today's langauge from children I despair. In the street conversations seem to consist of swear words for every adjective or adverb and even nouns! Many parents also use such profanities. I never ever heard my parents swear. "Ma's out Pa's out let's talk rude, Pee Po Belly Bum Drawers." I prefer bum to - ar*e from the common vernacular. The song is ironic.
jonjamg 1 year ago
@jonjamg I too despair at current usage of language in that with the common inclusion of profanity in everything, we seem to have lost profanity in anything. There no longer seem special words to express appropriately the intensity of anger, heartfelt irritation, frustration or hitting ones thumb with a hammer. The entire rich lexicon of our forebears seems to have shrunk to just those few words for use on every occasion. I think it is a symptom of turning louts into cultural heroes.
TamarZucker 1 year ago
@TamarZucker
During the 1980s in schools we were supposedly to accept the children's language and not to correct their Enlgish! Teachers were too BBC! This is now the generation of parents that swear at their kids and then parents complain because their child has heard poor language in the playgound! I ignored directives and carried on accepting only correct English and promoted manners when speaking to one another but it's an uphill struggle! I feel as if I am back at the bottom of the hill!
jonjamg 1 year ago
@jonjamg Indupitably Dear Fellow.
michaelfergusonuk 1 year ago
what a classic, thanx for posting.
progrocer 1 year ago
dont get it
Toebex 1 year ago
@Toebex
This was recorded in America and is 1950s humour . F & S are pretending to be young children talking rude..... pee po belly bum drawers were considered to be impolite words.
jonjamg 1 year ago 2
@jonjamg On album covers and labels, this song is listed as P** P* B**** B** D******.
smwca123 9 months ago
@smwca123 Indeed - Pee was just too much when I was younger!! And as for Bum!! Well....... my mum would have fainted!
jonjamg 9 months ago