From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) Subject: Re: Request::Good Ship Venus Lyrics Message-ID: Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 19:03:08 GMT Lines: 56 jslofs87@ursa.calvin.edu (Joel Slofstra) writes: >ben@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (Ben Cockfield) writes: >>Does anyone have a copy of "The Good Ship Venus"? I did have but seem to >>have misplaced it :( >>It's the one that stars: >>Twas on the good ship Venus >>by Christ you should have seen us >>The figurehead was a whore in bed >>astride a rampant penis. >that is a sex pistols songs of their "great rock and roll swinde" album It is much older than the Sex Pistols; I first heard it around 1956. The version I learned at St Andrews University in 1958 had the chorus Frigging in the rigging, Wanking on the planking, Buggery in the snuggery: There's fuck-all else to do. Frigging = wanking = masturbating; Americans are apt to misunderstand & imagine an impossibly acrobatic feat. As the the words, there is a large overlap between this song and various limericks. Some that I remember offhand are: The naughty captain's daughter, We threw her in the water. Delighted squeals revealed the eels Had found her sexual quarter. The cabin boy, named Ripper, A dirty little nipper -- He lined his arse with broken glass And circumcised the skipper. By skillful navigation We reached our China station, And sunk a junk in a hunk of spunk By mutual masturbation. 'Twas in the Adriatic, The crew became ecstatic. The rise and fall of cock and ball Was purely automatic. That should do to go on. I suggest that further discussion of this topic be moved to rec.music.folk. -- Joe Fineman