Old songs with unacceptable lyrics in todays' society

[Graham Knight]

I just heard Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant openly proclaim to "have a little schoolgirl and she's all mine", which led me to creating this thread.

Thinking more along the lines of lyrics from the older songs that were initially innocuous, but now not so.

Anybody got any more?

"Meat Man" written by the late Mack Vickery recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis

Oh, they call me the meat man

Ya oughta see me eat, m'am

Hear I'm the meat man, baby

Ya oughta see me eat, m'am

I got jaws like a bear trap

Teeth like a razor

Got a Maytag tongue

With a sensitive taste

A born in Texas

A land of beef

Never cared much for greens

Ya' oughta heard I like meat

I'm the meat man

Woo, oughta see me eat, now

Whoa, I'm the meat man, baby

Ya oughta see me eat, now

I been down to Macon, Georgia

I ate the furs off a Georgia peach

Plucked me a chicken in Memphis

Mama, I still got feathers in my teeth

Ate a pound of pork Huntsville, Alabama

From a fine Alabama hog

I went to Dallas, Texas

Got no love, my baby left me

Fed the bone to a Louisiana dog

......

"She Won't Turn Over For Me - Tommy Odim" - you'll have to look up the lyrics otherwise the Lenny Bruce fan moderator will be editing my posts again

"Baby Let Me Bang Your Box" - Doug Clark and the Ho Nuts

Baby let me bang your box, baby let me bang your box

Baby let me play your eighty-eight

I'm gonna bang 'til the whole house rocks

When I was young they called me Piano Bill

When I was young they called me Piano Bill

'Cause I played so fine I gave everybody a thrill

(Oh) baby let me bang your box,

baby let me bang your box

Baby let me bang your box, (hey) baby let me bang your box

Baby let me play your eighty-eight

I'm gonna bang 'til the whole house rocks

I've been bangin' since I was a kid of four

I've been bangin' since I was a kid of four

I've been bangin' along 'til I can't bang no more

Oh-oh baby let me bang your box, baby let me bang your box

Baby let me bang your box, hey baby let me bang your box

Well baby let me play your eighty-eight

I'm gonna bang 'til the whole house rocks

I've been playin' piano, large and small

But you've got the best piano of all

I banged everyone in the eighbourhood

Never banged one that sounds so good

I've got a shuffle, a back beat, a boogie oogie too

But when I play my jelly roll you won't know what to do

...........

Sixty Minute Man - Billy Ward and the Dominoes

Well listen here girls, I'm telling you now

They call me lovin' Dan

Oh, I'll rock 'em roll 'em all night long

I'm a sixty minute man

And if you don't believe I'm all I say,

Come up and take up my hand

When I let you go you'll cry Oh Yeah, he's a sixty minute Man!

You give me 15 minutes of kissin',

And then you holler "Oh please don't stop!"

There'll be 15 minutes of teasin'And 15 minutes of squeezin'

And 15 minutes of blowin' my top!

And if you don't believe that I'm all I say,

Come up and take up my hand

When I let you go you'll cry Oh Yeah,

he's a sixty minute Man!

Well, you give me 15 minutes of kissin',

Honey then you holler "Oh please don't stop!"

There'll be 15 minutes of teasin'

And 15 minutes of squeezing'

And 15 minutes of blowin' my top! TOP! TOP!

.......

Feat of the Mau Mau - written by Screamin Jay Hawkins

after reading about the blood soaked uprising in Kenya in 1947!

Cut the fat off the back of a baboon

Boil it down to a pound in a spoon

Scoop the eyes from a fly flying backwards

Take the jaws and the paws off a 'coon

Take your time, ain't life a good cookin'

Cause the rest of this mess ain't good lookin'

Take the fleas from the knees from a demon

Tell your pals and gals and come screamin'

To the feast with the beast of the Mau Maus

"Strokin" - Clarence Carter

......

I stroke it to the east

And I stroke it to the west

And I stroke it to the woman that I love the best, huh

I be strokin'

Now when I start making love to my woman

I don't stop until I know she's sas-ified

And I can always tell when she gets sas-ified

'Cause when she gets sas-fied she start calling my name

She'd say: 'Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter

Clarence Carter, ooooh shit, Clarence Carter'

The other night I was strokin' my woman

And it got so good to her, you know what she told me

Let me tell you what she told me, she said:

'Stroke it Clarence Carter, but don't stroke so fast

If my stuff ain't tight enough, you can stick it up my...**

I be strokin' Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

I be strokin'

.......

Chuck Berry's Ding A Ling was mentioned in earlier posts

"Chuckles" copied it from Dave Bartholemew who recorded it in 1953. He ran a band in the 40's that Fats Domino joined and then they all became famous. He played trumpet for Fats and collaborated in writing many famous numbers including "Blueberry Hill" etc. The original Ding A Ling is more "creative" than "Chuckles" later version and quite risque for 1953.

Dave Bartholomews My Ding-a-Ling Lyrics

I have a little girl, her name is Sing

She likes to play with my ding-a-ling

My ding-a-ling is the cutest thing

When Sing plays with my ding-a-ling

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling

Oh my, its the greatest thing

My ding-a-ling is the greatest thing

When Sing plays with my ding-a-ling

When you are young and you are on the go

Your ding-a-ling wont ever get sore

But when you are old and you lost your sting

You dont need the doggone thing

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling

Oh my, its the greatest thing

My ding-a-ling is the cutest thing

When Sing plays with my ding-a-ling

Theres a little girl, she lives next door

I like to play with her Yo-Yo

She likes to play with my Yo-Yo string

But she will not play with my ding-a-ling

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling

Oh my, its the cutest thing

My ding-a ling is the cutest thing

When Sing plays with my Ding-a-Ling

Shouldn't the BBC be banning older numbers like "I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China all to myself alone" by Bing Crosy - presumably Bing someone to sing duets with - the BBC has been playing it for 50 years.

or a few months ago the BBC had a jazz program recalling the forties and there was a marvellous video clip of a white suited Cab Calloway singing these lyrics:

Cab Calloway - Reefer Man lyrics

"Man whats the matter with that cat there?"

"must be full of reefer"

"full of reefer?!"

"yea man"

"you mean that cats high?!"

"sailing"

"sailing"

"sailing lightly"

"get away from here

Man is that the reefer man?"

"thats the reefer man"

"I belive hes losing his mind"

"I think hes lost his mind!"

Oh have you ever met that funny reefer man reefer man

have you ever met that funny reefer man reefer man

If he said he swam to china, and he sell you south carolina

then you know your talkn to that reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man

If he said he walks the ocean, any time he takes the notion

then you know your talkn to reefer man.

Have you ever met this funny reefer man reefer man

oh baby baby baby reefer man reefer man

If he trades you dimes for nickles

and calls watermellons pickles

then you know your talkn to that reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man

If he takes a sudden mania

he'll want to give you pennsylvaina

oh you know your talking to the reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man

If he said one sweet is funny

because he wont sell me atlantic

then you know your talkin to that reefer man

Check it out here:

YouTube - Cab Calloway - Reefer Man High Quality

[delboy]

there's a line in the patrick macnee/honor blackman (from the avengers) duet 'kinky boots' that has macnee (then aged in his late 40's) referring to 'naughty little schoolgirls' not particularly politically correct...

[Judge Michael T. Sauer]

"I ain't goin' to school cos I ain't got a gun" I guess is, retrospectively, a bit wrong.

[Lemonade]

The folk singer Donovan, one of my heroes, has a dodgy one about falling in love and getting stoned with a 14 year old girl.

Donovan - Superlungs lyrics

You will see this kind of chick in every town.

Whenever there's a scene she's always hanging around

She's so naive and innocent, she stares at you with awe

She's only fourteen but she knows how to draw.

Superlungs

Superlungs

Superlungs

She's my supergirl!

Superlungs

Yeah!

She doesn't get involved with blowing her cool

She's too busy getting high with her classmates in school

The people they ignore her, they would if they could

She ain't quite grown up yet but her credence's real good.

Superlungs

Yeah, come on!

She's my supergirl!

Superlungs

Yeah

Supergirl

Superlungs.

My!

Superlungs

Superlungs

Superlungs

She's my supergirl!

Superlungs

Fly, take off, now take off, fly!

Hey come on

Tho he wisely changed the name and the lyrics for a re-recording, took out all the references to her smoking weed but left in the bits abouther being 14. So, ya know. Shagging a girl who smokes weed is obviously worse than shagging a girl who's 14.

Donovan - Supergirl lyrics

You see this kind of chick in every town.

Whenever there's a scene she's always hanging around

She's so nave and innocent, stares at to it all

She's only fourteen but she knows how to draw.

Supergirl, supergirl.

Supergirl, supergirl.

Supergirl She's my supergirl and I love her

Supergirl She's my supergirl and I love her

Supergirl She's my supergirl and I love her

Supergirl She's my supergirl and I love her.

She never gets involved with blowing her cool

She's to busy painting sky with her classmates in school

Teachers they ignore, they would if they could

She ain't quite grown up yet but her credence's real good.

Supergirl She's my supergirl and I love her

Supergirl She's my supergirl and I love her

Supergirl She's my supergirl and I love her

Supergirl She's my supergirl and I love her.

[Stichman]

I agree about the underage stuff, its pretty nuts..

and song wise theres nickelbacks song "animals".

Its all about sex.

Copy and pasted from some random site..

You know the most horrifying thing about this song?

Chad Krueger. Having sex.

[Guest Jake Wifebeater]

So, ya know. Shagging a girl who smokes weed is obviously worse than shagging a girl who's 14.

Definitely. Any idea how boring stoners are?

[Jammer]

What about W.A.S.P and the glorious atrocity that is Animal (F***like a beast)? Ah heavy metal that subtle and thoughtful genre...

I got pictures of naked ladies

Lying on their beds

I whiff that smell and sweet convulsion

Starts a-Swelling inside my head

I'm making artificial lovers for free

I start to howl I'm in heat

I moan and growl and the hunt drives me crazy

I f*** like a Beast

I come round, round i come feel your love

Tie you down, down i come steal your love

I come round, round i come feel your love

Tie you down, down i come steal your love

I'm on the prowl and i watch you closely

I lie waiting for you

I'm the wolf with the sheepsskins clothing

I lick my chops and your tasting good

I do whatever i want to, to ya

I'll nail your ass to the sheets

A pelvic thrust and the sweat starts to sting ya

I f*** like a beast

I come round, round i come feel your love

Tie you down, down i come steal your love

I come round, round i come feel your love

Tie you down, down i come steal your love

Come ride, savage seduction

Ride, ride, ride

[Lemonade]

This one's a beauty, I just heard it on Radio 1 where they are discussing this very topic (old songs with dodgy lyrics). I've put the best bits in bold!

Clair (1972)

The moment I met you' date=' I swear

I felt as if something, somewhere

Had happened to me, which I couldn't see

And then, the moment I met you, again

I knew in my heart that we were friends

It had to be so, it couldn't be no

But try as hard as I might do, I don't know why

You get to me in a way I can't describe

[b']Words mean so little when you look up and smile

I don't care what people say, to me you're more than a child

Oh Clair, Clair

Clair

If ever a moment so rare

Was captured for all to compare

That moment is you in all that you do

But why in spite of our age difference do I cry

Each time I leave you I feel I could die

Nothing means more to me than hearing you say

I'm going to marry you, will you marry me Uncle Ray

Oh Clair Clair

Clair

I've told you before don't you dare

Get back into bed

Can't you see that it's late

No you can't have a drink

Oh alright then, but wait just a bit

While I, in an effort to babysit, catch up my breath

What there is left of it

You can be murder at this hour of the day

But in the morning the sun will see my lifetime away

Oh Clair, Clair

Oh Clair

And listen to the laughing at the end - so creepy!!!!

YouTube - "clair " gilbert o' sullivan

[Jammer]

Is that not a song about his daughter? Apart from that the man is MOR personified.

[Aileen]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this one yet.....

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,

Sold in a market down in new orleans.

Scarred old slaver know hes doin alright.

Hear him whip the women just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good

(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should

A-huh.

Drums beating, cold english blood runs hot,

Lady of the house wondrin where its gonna stop.

House boy knows that hes doin alright.

You should a heard him just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good

(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a black girl should

A-huh.

I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boy

Friends were sweet sixteen.

Im no schoolboy but I know what I like,

You should have heard me just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good

(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said

Oh just like a, just like a black girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said

Oh just like, just like a black girl should.

[Guest davetherave]

Not so old non PC songs

How about some of the Cramps stuff

The Cramps - I Wanna Get In Your Pants

May I have this dance? Can I get in your pants?

Oh baby it's uncanny. Bout them there Sunday panties.

Hey, today ain't Sunday. Get 'em off o' your fanny.

Oh, under your underpants. You got a wonderful ass.

It's in the back o' my mind. But, meanwhile, back at the ranch.

I wanna get in your pants.

Or maybe the Cure - Killing an Arab

I can turn And walk away

Or I can fire the gun

Staring at the sky

Staring at the sun

Whichever I chose

It amounts to the same

Absolutely nothing

I'm alive

I'm dead

I'm the stranger

Killing an arab

I'm not racist or sexist (ok maybe a bit sexist at times) but personally I think political corectness has gone too far, eg: you can no longer call a blackboard a blackboard, its black and its a board for fecks sake! Same story with Manhole covers, its now called a drain services hatch or something! Last years Mohammed the Bear incident also springs to mind! Imagine if we had such extremist laws in the UK, I would get locked up for calling my dog Jesus Christ !! Oh no, I'm ranting again, this is what happens when you turn 40

Long may we have songs like the above examples, but I'm bias, I happen to like The Cramps.

[Old Gold]

How about some of the Cramps stuff

The Cramps - I Wanna Get In Your Pants

May I have this dance? Can I get in your pants?

Oh baby it's uncanny. Bout them there Sunday panties.

Hey, today ain't Sunday. Get 'em off o' your fanny.

Oh, under your underpants. You got a wonderful ass.

It's in the back o' my mind. But, meanwhile, back at the ranch.

I wanna get in your pants.

Or maybe the Cure - Killing an Arab

I can turn And walk away

Or I can fire the gun

Staring at the sky

Staring at the sun

Whichever I chose

It amounts to the same

Absolutely nothing

I'm alive

I'm dead

I'm the stranger

Killing an arab

I'm not racist or sexist (ok maybe a bit sexist at times) but personally I think political corectness has gone too far, eg: you can no longer call a blackboard a blackboard, its black and its a board for fecks sake! Same story with Manhole covers, its now called a drain services hatch or something! Last years Mohammed the Bear incident also springs to mind! Imagine if we had such extremist laws in the UK, I would get locked up for calling my dog Jesus Christ !! Oh no, I'm ranting again, this is what happens when you turn 40

Long may we have songs like the above examples, but I'm bias, I happen to like The Cramps.

The Cramps was probably more unacceptable when it was released methinks. Songs about girls underwear have been wandering into the pop charts since the 80s.

I'm not sure about the Cure being overtly racist either...

[KarmaTsunami]

I'm no Cure fan, but is that song not about Camus' 'The Outsider'?

[The Milner]

im sure status quo had some dodgy lines about chinese women i cant remember then off the top of my head.

[Elizabeth]

Would Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung' (1971) count?

Sitting on a park bench --

Eyeing ittle girls with bad intent.

Snot running down his nose --

Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.

Drying in the cold sun --

Watching as the frilly panties run.

[Jammer]

Would Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung' (1971) count?

I wouldn't include that as it's meant to be that way, a social commentary (like Fiddle About by The Who), whereas the rest are examples of lyrics that were perfectly acceptable in their day (apart from WASP who just went for shock value).

[Swingin' Ryan]

I happen to like The Cramps.

Me too, they're brilliant. They're lyrics are always pretty sordid but I've never thought of them as being non-PC though as they're done in such a camp, 50's B-Movie style that they're more funny than innapropriate. The Cramps are kind of the musical equivalent of trashy American B-movie cinema.

The sex based lyrics wouldn't be as funny if they were being sung by some laddy pub-rock singer, but when it's a guy in leather pants and a pair of stilletos it's brilliant. They're great because they take all the things that are classic 'Americana' culture and make it so shocking that it would disgust the majority of Middle-America.

[Lemonade]

Thirded on the Cramps, they are pretty ace.

[qzdiablo]

im sure status quo had some dodgy lines about chinese women i cant remember then off the top of my head.

oh shit, yes

i went to see status quo at the aecc like five years ago (not for pleasure, my dad was supposed to take my little brother but my dad was unable to go). half-way though their set they broke out that particular number. stuff about "oriental, drives me mental" and "really spicy, does me nicely". i can't remember all the words and i'm not going to look them up online and have my browser inundated w/ pop-ups in order to reproduce them here. i do remember, however, that it was perfectly clear that they were not singing about the finer points of asian cusine.

[Mouse]

Her name was Mia

from North Korea

I said, Come over

Bring your Land Rover

I don't like sushi

She said, that suits me

I take a shower

On every hour

Oh, the Oriental, very very special

If you ever get some

You want another one and another one

The Oriental, very very gentle

I got one for a cousin

Can you send me a dozen?

Her name was Mae Wong

She came from Hong Kong

She was a raver

Of Eastern flavour

I said, I love you

She said, I'd love to

Go down to Texas

Must have one Lexus

Oh, the Oriental, so very very special

If you ever get some

You want another one and another one

The Oriental, very very gentle

I like it spicy

That'll do me nicely

I'm gonna cross the water, take a plane to Tokyo

And find a little geisha, I love to see them go

And carry on to China, Asia Minor and some more

Then finish with a sling in Singapore

Oh, the Oriental, very very special

If you ever get some

You want another one and another one

The Oriental, very very gentle

I got one for a cousin

Can you send me a dozen?

Oh, the Oriental will drive you mental

I really gotta get one

And then another one and another one

Oh, the Oriental, can you get them on a rental?

Don't send me a Russian

Ain't no discussion

Got to be an Oriental

[Jammer]

Her name was Mia

from North Korea

I said, Come over

Bring your Land Rover

I don't like sushi

She said, that suits me

I take a shower

On every hour

Oh, the Oriental, very very special

If you ever get some

You want another one and another one

The Oriental, very very gentle

I got one for a cousin

Can you send me a dozen?

Her name was Mae Wong

She came from Hong Kong

She was a raver

Of Eastern flavour

I said, I love you

She said, I'd love to

Go down to Texas

Must have one Lexus

Oh, the Oriental, so very very special

If you ever get some

You want another one and another one

The Oriental, very very gentle

I like it spicy

That'll do me nicely

I'm gonna cross the water, take a plane to Tokyo

And find a little geisha, I love to see them go

And carry on to China, Asia Minor and some more

Then finish with a sling in Singapore

Oh, the Oriental, very very special

If you ever get some

You want another one and another one

The Oriental, very very gentle

I got one for a cousin

Can you send me a dozen?

Oh, the Oriental will drive you mental

I really gotta get one

And then another one and another one

Oh, the Oriental, can you get them on a rental?

Don't send me a Russian

Ain't no discussion

Got to be an Oriental

:laughing:

Well that's also the worst lyrics I have ever seen...contrived and soooo shite. Unnaceptable on every level

:laughing:

[Neill]

Oh you can't beat a good bit of the Meatmen:

1 down 3 to go

chapman shot him dead

plugged him in the head

no more slopehead wife to fuck

no more squito bites to suck

lennon's dead hip hip hooray

all his dues he know must pay

george, paul, ringo any day

will be dead we all must pray

a paunched out hippie fart he was

a pot smoking scumbag

bespeckled old scuz

his panface gookin' fuck so me stud

insurance cash all covered in blood

one year later

they paid their respects

prayed for his soul

then went went home & had sex

hipocrytes all of them

the worst kind of drugged out phlegm

crippled children suck

it's easy to see

their parents were dumb

for having v.d.

and conceiving a baby as ugly as it

i say give it leg braces

that don't even fit

mom & dad smoked their dope

for a liberal smooth future

they had a lot of hope

but because of their folly

their life is pretty crass

a little baby boy

with an arm stuck out its ass

Tooling for Anus

Tooling For Anus...That's You

Tooling For Anus...Him Too

Tooling For Anus...Her Too

Tooling For Anus..Them Too

Detroit City is the place to go

if you wanna lick gonads or blow a stiff

bookies, nunzios, menjos too

to pack some blowin'

to shoot some glue

(chorus)

i'm not a fag and i'll never be

afraid to hit the can to take a pee

afraid some sissy'll grab my ass

i'll stick his face with broken glass

[Lemonade]

I don't think you've quite grasped the point of this thread Neill....

[Lemonade]

Sorry for the thread revival, but the breakdown in "Christine Sixteen" by Kiss makes me chuckle every time.

I dont usually say things like this to girls your age,

but when I saw you coming out of the school that day,

that day I knew, I knew, Ive got to have you!

Ive GOT to have you!

[unbroken]

look up Little Girls by Oingo Boingo.

Awesome tune, great lyrics, and a shit load of people over reacting in the comments bit on youtube!