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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* There's a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Fanfic]] in which the Doctor's asked what the rudest song he knows is -- apparently, it's "a toss-up between 'The Lonely Little Academy Girl' and 'Och Aye! 'Tis Rassilon's Mighty Firm Rod" (the latter of which apparently runs to about fifty-four verses).
* Athena Prime's [[Knights of the Old Republic]] epic fanfic mentions a bawdy song called "The Starship Venus." Allronix, in her KOTOR fic, [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2344822/1/Destinys_Pawn_Leviathan provides some of the lyrics].
* In Rising Star (an adaption of [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]), [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2726841/10/Rising_Star Sonic suggests Tails should sing something during their trip through Casino Night Zone.] As it's revealed, Tails spent too much time hanging out behind the local bar...
* 'Galdwyn was a Shieldmaiden', in the ''Lord of the Rings'' fandom.
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*** Or not, considering that a "bogey" then, was what we today call a "par". Being called a scratch-player is probably NOT an insult anywhere.
** "Colonel Bogey March" inspired a [[Call Back]] of sorts about a decade after ''Bridge On The River Kwai'' was released when the Smothers Brothers did a comedic performance of the South African marching tune "Marching to Pretoria" in which they briefly stopped the song to discuss their favorite marching songs. They briefly reference "Colonel Bogey" (which they mistakenly call "March of the River Kwai") and note that you could never sing it because it was all whistling...then surmise that the song's lyrics must have been dirty, which is why they had to be whistled instead. Then, when they start singing again, one of them shifts to whistling just as their improvised lyrics are getting ''really'' naughty, prompting the audience to laugh.
* The theme song of ''[[Team America]]: World Police'' ({{spoiler|"America, Fuck Yeah"}}) makes a great one.
* In the movie ''[[Heartbreak Ridge]]'' [[Clint Eastwood]]'s platoon sing ''Model T Ford and a tankful of gas, mouthful of pussy and a handful of ass!" while jogging past their stuck-up CO, Major Powers, who is standing next to a female marine. She is a good deal more amused than he is.
* Mondain from ''[[Les Choristes]]'', being the resident [[Delinquent]], loves singing these in the face of the teachers. Maxence almost kicks him to the punishment room, before [[Save Our Students|cheerful music teacher]] Mathieu notices his baritone would be great for his choir.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In A.N. Wilson's ''The Vicar of Sorrows'', an evangelical lady suggests to the vicar that modern, upbeat hymns would be better for the Easter procession than the traditional hymn he always uses. He responds that if they ditch the traditional hymn, then they can sing "Eskimo Nell" for all he cares. This leads to the lady, who has never heard of this song, asking various other parishioners about it and whether it would be a good song to sing in the Easter parade, spreading scandal about the vicar's morals and mental health. Eventually she finds a copy of the lyrics in a book of erotic poetry from the library; given that she is a self-appointed [[Moral Guardians|moral guardian]], the look on her face as she read it can only be imagined!
* Mentioned a number of times in the [[Discworld]] novels. Two of Nanny Ogg's favorite tunes are "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered at All" and "A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End". In ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', a drunken banker is described as singing "the sort of song that is hilarious to rugby players and anyone under the age of eleven". There was also the song "All The Little Angels (How Do They Rise Up)", a marching song from the novel ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', and described as the best kind of song for old soldiers--sentimental, with dirty bits.
** Fans have of course written their own lyrics to Nanny Ogg's songs, some of which were printed in the aptly named fanzine ''The Wizard's Knob''. You really ''don't'' want to read them.
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* In ''[[Bottom]]'', Richie sings this version of [[wikipedia:The
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* [[Steeleye Span]]'s "Drink Down The Moon" uses "cuckoo's nest" as an [[Unusual Euphemism]].
{{quote|She said young man you blunder/ And he said it isn't true/ And he left her with the makings of a young cuckoo ...}}
** [[Folk Music]] is usually pretty filthy. Fairport Convention recording the song Bonny Black Hare in which a young hunter goes in search of the titular hare, which happens to live under the apron of a fair maiden.
*** Indeed, [[Discworld|Granny Weatherwax's]] assessment of the genre is fairly accurate: "I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think you're listenin' to a nice song about...about cuckoos and fiddlers and nightingales and whatnot, and then it turns out to be about...about something else entirely."
* Samantha Fox's songs are definitely this trope. The titles of her songs might be enough to clarify.
* [[ACDC]]
** "[[Double Entendre|Big Balls]]".
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The balls held for pleasure
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** Or "Billy Liar." "Decked by a Japanese Geisha with a garland of pearls," indeed.
** Come to think of it, ''The Tain'' is pretty bawdy at times too. Fuck it, let's just say Colin Meloy has a dirty mind.
** Seriously. Let's not forget the loquacious euphemisms scattered all throughout the Hazards of Love. "Here we died our little deaths," "bent to brush our blushing knees," "Margaret heaves a sigh, her hands clasped to her thigh," "I was wedded and it whetted my thirst..." Need we go on?
** Meloy is pretty much the king of eloquent sex references. He manages to put them in just about every song, somehow making a melancholy tune about two gay prostitutes sound like poetry.
* [[Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds]]' ''Easy Money'' is a narrative about a male prostitute. The lyric "He kissed me on the mouth / His hands they headed south / And my cheek it burned" is too subtle for some to completely give it away.
* Probably the songs Dropkick Murphys are best known for, including "Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced" and "The Spicy McHaggis Jig" ("Spicy was big, burly, and strong / His pipes were gigantic and so was his schlong / From city to city, running around / Always looking for chicks over [[American Customary Measurements|four hundred pounds]].")
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* ''The [[Howard Stern]] Show'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf9n9a7QROU a whole bunch] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEE6AyK85j8&feature=related of these] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXunV8gDYGU&feature=related about Robin Quivers.] A notable one is "I Want Robin's Bunghole" to the tune of "Welcome to The Jungle".
* A fairly mild verse or two of one of these these (well, compared to some of the others) is used in the radio play ''All Is Calm''. Since everything else in the play is based off of actual historical text from the time period, which is the very beginning of World War One, it's probably legit, but surrounded by all the other Christmas hymns and accounts of trench life it's one of the funniest moments in the entire thing. The loud Christmas songs drowning out the dirty bits of each verse don't help either.
* A skit in ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'' parodying ''Listen With Mother'' (a BBC children's show) presented a song by an Irish folk group. The show's host, appalled at the song's increasingly-bawdy lyrics, finally cleared the group out of the studio by reminding them that the pubs had just opened (at which point they suddenly stampeded off).
* And then on [[Round the Horne]] there was Kenneth Williams' character of Rambling Syd Rumpo, an itinerant folk singer of questionable old English ballads packed with double entendre and general murkiness.
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** ''[[The Sims Medieval]]'' has "Ne'er to [[G-Rated Sex|Woohoo]] Again" as one of the songs a Bard character can sing.
* Oblivion has "A Less Rude Song". Someone transcribed it at http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:A_Less_Rude_Song
** And [http://www.imperial-library.info/dfbooks/b068_rudesong.shtml the song it's less rude than] appeared in Daggerfall, an earlier game in the Elder Scrolls series.
* The [[Sound Off]] "quote" upon building a Network Node in ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'' is one of these [[Double Entendre|when you]] [[Unusual Euphemism|think about it]]:
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* In a similar vein, there was a Mouseketeers take-off on ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' where a wheel would be spun to see who would get the next cartoon.
{{quote|'''Babs''': Buster, would you like to lead us in the song?
'''Buster''': Sure! There once was a man from Nantucket --
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