Rugby song
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Rugby Songs are drinking songs sung by rugby union players after the game at the after-party (aka "The Third Half"). As with most drinking songs, there is a high percentage of rude or bawdy songs sung by rugby players.
[edit] Some Rugby Songs
Some common rugby songs include:
- The Rugby Song
- Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg
- Eskimo Nell
- The Mayor of Bayswater
- T'was on the Good Ship Venus
- Do Your Balls Hang Low?
- The S&M Man
- The Yogi Bear Song
- I Used to Work in Chicago
- Bestiality's Best Boys
- Sosban Fach
- The Wild West Show
- Jesus Can't Play Rugby
- I Met a Whore in the Park (aka Yo-Ho)
- The Ball Of Kerriymuir often referred to as "Four and Twenty Virgins"
- Dough, A Thing I Buy Beer With - a particular favorite among gay rugby unions and women's unions for the line "Ray, a guy who buys me beer"
- All Black Rugby Song - song dedicated to the NZ All Blacks[1]
- If I Were the Marrying Kind
- The Limerick (song), better known among rugby players as 'Rodriguez the Mexican Pervert'.
- A rugby version of Swing Low Sweet Chariot complete with obscene gestures
- Cwm Rhondda. In English, 'Guide me, O Thou Great Redeemer' aka the Welsh Rugby Hymn (There are also ribald verses.)
- A rugby version of the French-Canadian folk song Alouette, sung by the assemblage to a 'rugby queen' and involving disparaging comments about this unfortunate, (and usually naive) young woman's anatomy.
- The Sexual Life of the Camel
[edit] References
Morgan, Harry, ed. Why Was He Born So Beautiful and other Rugby Songs (London: Sphere, 1963).
Morgan, Harry, ed. More Rugby Songs (London: Sphere, 1967).
Ron & the Rude Boys, 5 CDs of Rude Rugby Songs (Devon, 1990)
[edit] External Links
- Template:Http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
