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<<know the verses>>
No, but did Gilbert and Sullivan borrows from this ditty?
"..And when the breezes blow
I generally go below.."
--Captain of the HMS Pinafore
This is Binky, wishing you a pleasant from the rings of Saturn, signing off.
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Capital Ship : Walloping Window Blind
The chorus sung between verses :
Heigh ho my lads Heigh Ho
A roving we will go.
We'll stay no more on England's shore
So let the breezes blow-ow-ow.
We're off on the bounding main .......??????
And dammitall I can't remember the rest of the lyrics but do remember some were quite naughty.
I used to know several verses --in those dear days long ago -- as did my sons and we sang it on car trips!
Oh, SOMEBODY please post it.
Tsuwm ... a challenge for your Post-A-Day ?
Read somewhere that there was a Widow Woman who kept track of a handsome Captain through her window which faced the pier and when the Captain glanced her way the Widow Woman would slam (whallop) the blind thus giving herself away.... and spawning a nautical ditty.
wow
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>walloping window blind ann (and bill), this is the best I could come up with. there is an email address at the bottom, and I'll bet you could write to Mr. Glover and get more.... http://www.hamiltonet.com/4546.htmthe line "...he'd been in his bunk below" does make it look like there's a connection with G&S. and jackie, the minimum daily requirement is looking like the maximum too.
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Thank you, tsuwm ... I read the whole piece and found it delightful.
It started with the opening for WWB and gave the *real* chorus which my memory had outrageously scrambled. Herewith the correct chorus as copied from the column:
So blow, ye winds Hi Ho! a roving we will go,
I'll sail no more from England's shore, So let the music play-ay-ay.
I'm off on the morning train, I'll cross the raging main,
I'm off to me love with a boxing glove, ten thousand miles away.."
I did send a note off via Email to Mr. Glover and perhaps we may yet get more verses.
Hope springs eternal
wow
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When I put the Walloping Window Blind into my "Songs" folder, I found this one (copied as I found it):
My Uncle Charles McDermott (1st Photo squadron) sent this parody of the U.S. Army Air Corps anthem to my Mother and Dad in 1942.
Sung to tune of the real AAC anthem "The wild blue yonder"
Off we go into the file drawer yonder
Diving deep into the drawer,
Here it is, buried away down under
The gol dern thing the brass was searching for.
Off we go into the CO's office
Where we get one hellava roar
We live in miles of paper files. OH!
Nothing can stop the Army File Corps.
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How about some verses to
Mademoiselle from Armentiers, parlez vous
Hasn't been kissed in forty years....
We used to sing it while marching, and make up parodies as we went:
They say this is a mechanized war, parlez vous
So what the hell are we marching for?....
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Thanks Rod-- I know it as "Last night upon the stair" for the first line,
and "I wish, I wish he'd go away"
which scans fine. (and i thought it was too much fun for only american kids to have discovered)
do we have any former girls scouts? I don't remember the song about the rooster--only the idea of it
Its about the wonderful rooster--
who gets into the garden and everything starts coming up eggplants--
and he corners the farmers wife, and after that she only has eggheads--?
there are about six or seven verses
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Tsuwm reminded me of an old parody:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps unless the billboards fall
I shall never see a tree at all. (Ogden Nash?)
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In reply to:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps unless the billboards fall
I shall never see a tree at all. (Ogden Nash?)
Yes, that is Ogden Nash. I've seen it somewhere in the "the face is familiar" anthology.
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On the beach you nubile walk mid the billowing, seagull squawk! You, the constant of my thought, Could your latex lips but talk! [BF Goodrich?] 
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