Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Flanders & Swann
Michael Flanders and Donald Swann
This song (with its intentionally censored title) satirizes the avant-garde literature and media of the mid-1960s. Flanders and Swann are poking fun at the dirty minds and mouths of that era in art, comparing their self-conscious obscenity with the delight a young child takes in saying rude words.
[Flanders & Swann]
Ma's out, Pa's out, let's talk rude--
Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers!
Dance in the garden in the nude
Pee, po, belly, bum drawers!
Let's write rude words all down our street
Stick out our tongues at the people we meet
Let's have an intellectual treat!
Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers
Sunday again on CBC
[Flanders]
Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers
[Flanders & Swann]
And Norman Mailer is coming to tea
[Swann]
Pee, po, belly, bum, pants!
[Flanders & Swann]
Allen Ginsberg reads on and on
But we're having a happening when he's gone
Come to the party in the john
Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers
Disney's planning a double bill--
Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers--
Christopher Robin meets Fanny Hill
Pooh Bear, belly, bum, drawers!
On stage and screen we can all work hard
Throwing toilet rolls in our own backyard
Who's afraid of the avant-garde?
Pee, pee, po, po, belly, belly, bum, bum
Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers
What gets the prizes and wins awards?
[Flanders]
Pee!
[Swann]
Po!
[Flanders]
Belly!
[Swann]
Bum!
[Flanders & Swann]
Drawers!
[Flanders]
What did Prince Philip tell the lords?
Well, never mind that
[Flanders & Swann]
At Oxford and Cambridge and Yale and all
And at Berkeley, they really have a ball
'cause the higher the brow, the harder they fall, for
[Flanders]
Belly, belly, bum, bum, botty, botty, po
Pee, po, belly, belly, bum, bum--
[Swann]
Pee, po, belly, belly, bum, bum
Pee, po, belly, bum, pee, po, belly, bum--
[Flanders and Swann]
Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers!
P** P* B**** B** D******* was written by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
Michael Flanders and Donald Swann released P** P* B**** B** D******* on Wed Jan 01 1964.