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Cor Blimey ! Admiral Nelson's pant's ain't got no wrinkles.....

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treacletart · 15/01/2006 20:02

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Earlier this evening a mate and I both remembered singing this line at our respective schools (probaly about 25 years ago mind you!). I think it was part of a mini musical about Nelson and Lady Hamilton. Apart from something about a plate of winkles I can't remember any other lines or any other songs. Google hasn't helped me at all - can you?

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treacletart · 16/01/2006 18:03

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treacletart · 16/01/2006 20:56

anyone?

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Whizzz · 16/01/2006 20:57

I think you're on your own on that one

Surfermum · 16/01/2006 21:01

My dh is a salty old sea dog and generally up on things about Nelson ..... and hasn't a clue! Sorry.

starlover · 16/01/2006 21:05

how strange... i think i remember that! we did a singing thing on nelson... our school went somewhere with some other schools i think and we all had to sing a ton of songs...

puff · 16/01/2006 21:09

I remember bits of it:

can't finish the line, but later in the song:

We would like to give you the freedom of the smoke
So stick it on yer chest mate
Hold it in you hand
And ave a lump of sugar and the freedom of the land.

Bits of lyrics from other songs in the musical:

Got the evil weevil in my hard tack
Got the cat o nine tails upon my back
Got the kind of life I would rather lose
I got the mean old Royal Navy blues

Hip hip Horatio, hip hip hooray
drenched by the fountains cold spray, hey
We all admire you, cos you changed the course of history
Cheering Horatio Nelson, Horatio Nelson, all cheering Horatio Nelson this way!

puff · 16/01/2006 21:18

It's actually called "Hip Hip Horatio"

There is some stuff on the web about it

puff · 16/01/2006 21:23

You can still buy the score

LIZS · 16/01/2006 21:27

We did it too !

treacletart · 16/01/2006 22:08

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou!!!! Thought I'd lose my marbles over that one. Puff you're a star! LizS, think we've established before you were a year or two above me at BHHS, so I guess we may even have sung it together!

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Bolt75 · 17/04/2025 14:27

Walking in the city the other day
press gang took a fancy and stole me away
took away my clothing and both my shoes
i’ ve the Royal Navy blues. Yeh

gotta keep on scrubbing at that deck
gotta make it white as snow
got the bossan breathing down my neck
Lordy won’t you come and make him go

gotta keep on working the best I can
gotta keep on working for The rights of man
blsh blah blah blah blah blah
ive got the Royal Navy- drive me crazy
Royal Navy blues. Yea

BooK85 · 20/05/2025 13:26

Oh my goodness, this is the only instance online I have found of someone else remembering this! It was part of my childhood too... approx. 1995??

Cor Blimey Admiral Nelson, you're a smashing bloke - hoy!
All dressed up in your smart (something) hat,
With a lov-erly bright blue coat.
We would like to give ya the freedom of the smoke!
So come on 'ave a cuppa, 'old it in your 'and (something something something)
It's the freedom of the land!

I also remember snippets of "57? sailing ships, sliding through the night"

"Think of all them froggies, breakfasting on snails,
Won't they (something something something) when they see our sails!

Potentially about the Spanish armada?? Gosh, terribly racist now that I see it written down.

And a calypso tune...

And so it's hey bananas, dis am de refrain,
We am gonna sing it, again and again,
And every time we sing it, it gives us time,
To figure out a way to make the next verses rhyme.

Back at the guboner's house he find, a lady that create funny state of mind,
De guboner say you can take her hand, but you got to take her back with you to old engerland!

And something about "Little Fanny Nesbit the guboner's neice"

That's all I've got!

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