Rugby song

Rugby Songs are drinking songs sung by rugby union players after the game at the after-party (aka "The Third Half"). As with most drinking songs, there is a high percentage of rude or bawdy songs sung by rugby players.

Some Rugby Songs

Some common rugby songs include:

*The Rugby Song
*Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg
*Eskimo Nell
*The Mayor of Bayswater
*T'was on the Good Ship Venus
*Do Your Balls Hang Low?
*The S&M Man
*The Yogi Bear Song
*I Used to Work in Chicago
*Bestiality's Best Boys
*Sosban Fach
*The Wild West Show
*Jesus Can't Play Rugby
*I Met a Whore in the Park (aka Yo-Ho)
*The Ball Of Kerriymuir often referred to as "Four and Twenty Virgins"
*Dough, A Thing I Buy Beer With - a particular favorite among gay rugby unions and women's unions for the line "Ray, a guy who buys me beer"
*All Black Rugby Song - song dedicated to the NZ All Blacks [http://www.wildmonks.com/intro.asp?loca=20&en=Music&locam=%D2%F4%C0%D6&a=62&tlb=2&id=122&js=2]
*If I Were the Marrying Kind
*The Limerick (song), better known among rugby players as 'Rodriguez the Mexican Pervert'.
*A rugby version of Swing Low Sweet Chariot complete with obscene gestures
*Cwm Rhondda. In English, 'Guide me, O Thou Great Redeemer' aka the Welsh Rugby Hymn (There are also ribald verses.)
*A rugby version of the French-Canadian folk song Alouette, sung by the assemblage to a 'rugby queen' and involving disparaging comments about this unfortunate, (and usually naive) young woman's anatomy.
*The Sexual Life of the Camel
*Why Was He Born So Beautiful? - sung to a teammate or opponent who has just fouled up the singing of another song.
*The Whoredean School
*The Mayor of Bayswater

References

Morgan, Harry, ed. "Why Was He Born So Beautiful and other Rugby Songs" (London: Sphere, 1963).

Morgan, Harry, ed. "More Rugby Songs" (London: Sphere, 1967).

Ron & the Rude Boys, 5 CDs of "Rude Rugby Songs" (Devon, 1990)