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Caution: risqué content

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I happened to recall this from the days when I was a uni student, although the version I remember concerned a policeman and Waterloo Bridge. No matter.

So I present for your listening pleasure . . .

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Blinded by Turds

The origins of this musical work may be lost in time or it may have been written by Oscar Brand.

Here is the link to the version sung by Oscar Brand, Canadian singer who made a specialty of singing naughty ditties in the sixties:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhCzNXgBZE

Video:

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The lyrics:

There was an old lady who lived on Lick Street

Her passage was blocked up from too much to eat

She took stomach pills without reading the box

Before she could strip, turds were flying like rocks.

Toorala, tooralay

A rolling stone gathers no moss, so they say

Sing along, with the birds

It's a wonderful song but it's all about turds.

She ran to the window, stuck out her ass

Just at that moment a cowhand did pass

He heard the strange noise, so he gazed up on high

A mighty big turd hit him right in the eye.

Toorala, tooralay

A rolling stone gathers no moss, so they say

Sing along, with the birds

It's a wonderful song but it's all about turds.

Oh he ran to the east and the west

When a further consignment arrived on his chest

He fled to the north and he fled to the south

When a bloody big turd hit him right in the mouth.

Toorala, tooralay

A rolling stone gathers no moss, so they say

Sing along, with the birds

It's a wonderful song but it's all about turds.

The next time you walk over Flatriver Bridge

Look out for a cowhand asleep on the ridge

His chest bears a placard, whereon are these words:

"Be kind to a cowboy who's blinded by turds."

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Oscar Brand bio:

Oscar Brand (1920 – 2016) was a Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter and author. In his career, spanning 70 years, he composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums, among them Canadian and American patriotic songs. Brand's music ran the gamut from novelty songs to serious social commentary and spanned a number of genres.

Brand also wrote a number of short stories. For 70 years, he was the host of a weekly folk music show on WNYC Radio in New York City, which is credited as the longest running radio show with only one host in broadcasting history.

While Brand was not as well-known or radical an activist as some of his contemporaries, he was a long-standing supporter of civil rights. He told stories of buying food for Lead Belly when the two traveled together in segregated areas, and participated in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.

Brand was one of the original organizers of the Newport Folk Festival which began in 1959.

In the early 1960s, Brand brought his substantial connections in the worldwide folk music community home to his native Canada with his CTV and then CBC television program Let's Sing Out. The program was staged at and broadcast from university campuses across Canada and both revived the careers of long-forgotten pioneers of the folk music movement such as Malvina Reynolds, the Womenfolk, The Weavers and others and introduced then-unknown Canadian singers such as Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot.

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