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Last year I got a book called What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor?, which was all extremely vulgar sea shanties of one sort or another. As I was lacking in alternative material, I had a British soldier RP character of mine (I think at the moment I've got three, though I could be wrong) say that he knew the more interesting ones thanks to an old Navy drinking buddy.
I'd like to get him some more appropriate material before I send him off on a plot that I know is going to involve singing. Back when I was in high school, I wrote the usual Mary-Sue tripe that people of that age write- or rather I composed it; it all stayed in my head rather than ever going down on paper- and part of that tripe involved introducing my favourite acoustic instrument-suitable rock and pop songs to the Harpers of Pern. Harry's going to get plunked down without warning in a culture where singing and dancing are significant forms of entertainment. Aside from a couple of Queen songs I've never gotten the impression that he's much of a popular music person, but it's been far too easy to see him memorizing things like the Ballad of Eskimo Nell, or the pre-Gulf War song "Guantanamo Bay". I think it would be a rather appropriate penance for the Sue stuff to have Harry get asked for some of the songs of his homeland and respond with something too filthy to repeat on prime time television.
So I suppose the question is: knowing that we're dealing with an English soldier (second battalion, Light Infantry) as of about 2005 or so, can anyone point me at somewhere I could pick out a few suitably bawdy songs my boy might reasonably know? Thanks.
I'd like to get him some more appropriate material before I send him off on a plot that I know is going to involve singing. Back when I was in high school, I wrote the usual Mary-Sue tripe that people of that age write- or rather I composed it; it all stayed in my head rather than ever going down on paper- and part of that tripe involved introducing my favourite acoustic instrument-suitable rock and pop songs to the Harpers of Pern. Harry's going to get plunked down without warning in a culture where singing and dancing are significant forms of entertainment. Aside from a couple of Queen songs I've never gotten the impression that he's much of a popular music person, but it's been far too easy to see him memorizing things like the Ballad of Eskimo Nell, or the pre-Gulf War song "Guantanamo Bay". I think it would be a rather appropriate penance for the Sue stuff to have Harry get asked for some of the songs of his homeland and respond with something too filthy to repeat on prime time television.
So I suppose the question is: knowing that we're dealing with an English soldier (second battalion, Light Infantry) as of about 2005 or so, can anyone point me at somewhere I could pick out a few suitably bawdy songs my boy might reasonably know? Thanks.
