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Sing, Sing or Show Us Your Ring.
[Song opens with "Why Was He Born So Beautiful" then goes on to the below song]
 
We call on the bastards to sing us a song
We call on the bastards to sing us a song
We call on the bastards to sing us a song
So, sing you bastards, Sing, or show us your ring



Retrieved from http://www.thehookers.nl/shoemaker.html on 18 June 2005:

We call on the bastards

We call on the bastards to sing us a song
We call on the bastards to sing us a song
So sing you bastard, sing
Or show us your ring
But we don't want to see your ring
So sing, you bastard, sing.

 



Retrieved from http://www.srcthor.nl/songs/We.html on 18 June 2005

We call on our captain

We call on our captain to sing us a song
We call on our captain to sing us a song
So sing, you bastard, sing
Or show us your ring
But we don't want your ring
So sing, you bastard, sing.

 



A historical note with regards to this song: G. Legman in his book No Laughing Matter page 115. quotes an article:

In an article on "Rural Traditions of the Snake River Valley [Idaho/Oregon in the USA]," by Louie Attebery, in Northwest Folklore (1965) vol. 1, no.2: p.28-9, he explains the catchphrase "Whistle or sing, Or show your thing." During the harvest when a machine would break down or there was rain, people would use this phrase to jeer on the people to sing or entertain the people waiting around...each person would be required to do something entertaining or the penalty would be that they had to show their "thing".

This phrase now has permuted into showing your "ring" and seems to mean that the penalty for not singing is to show your ARSE. That is why sometimes the rhyme goes "But we don't want your ring" OR "We already saw your ring" so SING.

It seems that "up the ring" is British slang for "up the ass" or "up the arse".  here are a few examples of this usage:

SING A SONG OF ANAL SEX,
A ARSE FULL OF CUM
4N20 PENISES GOIN UP UR BUM
WEN THE ORGES OVER
UR ARSE BEGINS TO STING,
WASNT IT A SILLY THING
2 TAKE IT UP THE RING!


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Carnforth RUFC
Tampax Factory

Chorus:

We're the boys who work in the Tampax factory
Shout your orders loud and clear
We've got small ones, medium, family size and large
We can always get a sanny to fit your fanny
When the end of the month comes around.

You can tell by the smell that she isn't very well
When the end of the month comes along.

You can tell by the stress that her minge is one big mess,
When the end of the month comes along.

You can tell by the hum that she'll take it up the bum,
When the end of the month comes along.

You can tell by the taste that it isn't salmon paste,
When the end of the month comes along.

You can tell by the string that she'll take it up the ring,
When the end of the month comes along.

You can tell by the flood that her piss is mixed with blood,
When the end of the month comes along.

You can tell by the look that you ain't gonna get a fuck,
When the end of the month comes along.

You can tell by the moaning that she's pissing haemoglobin,
When the end of the month comes along.

You can tell by the smiles that you're gonna give her piles,
When the end of the month comes along.

You can tell by the colour that she shares them with her mother,
When the end of the month comes along.

 



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