Bawdy Song: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
No edit summary |
m (cleanup categories) |
||
Line 15:
A song or poem which includes ribaldry for purposes of bonding and general letting-off-steam. May also be called a Barrack-room Ballad, a Rugby Song or a Hash Hymn. The level of ribaldry may range from mere [[Double Entendre]] to the kind of explicit lyrics that send [[Moral Guardians]] into conniptions.
Such songs are sometimes used as a nod towards [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], a character will be singing a well-known bawdy song and cut off a [[Last-Second Word Swap|split-second]] [[Orphaned Punchline|before actually singing anything obscene]]. Including snatches of bawdy songs in a scene indicates that characters are becoming relaxed and uninhibited (at the very least). If the song happens to be something as explicit as "[[wikipedia:Good Ship Venus|The Good Ship Venus]]" or "[[wikipedia:Barnacle Bill
An unseen incident of the singing of a bawdy song may be used to indicate that someone was drunk and disorderly or otherwise "out of order", especially if children, nuns or [[The Vicar]] happened to be present. Allusion to the vicar knowing such a song is a deliberate example of incongruity. Rick the Vic from ''[[Hellblazer]]'' probably knows them all.
Line 341:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Sex Tropes]]
[[Category:Music Tropes]]
[[Category:Bawdy Song]]
| |||