Talk:Good Ship Venus

Move

Please do not move this page to "Friggin' in the Riggin'". The more common title is GOOD SHIP VENUS and I can document that this is the more common title. Serendipitousstl 22:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's bollocks mate. The Sex Pistol's released it under Friggin' in the Riggin'.

So, if it didn't originate with the SP, then where did the bloody thing come from?

Pubs near docks? 86.142.175.177 (talk) 15:38, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I first heard it in 1964. The Roud Folk Song Index mentions Vicarion Book of Bawdy Ballads, 1959 edition., before the Sex Pistols were born. "Good Ship Venus" is in Roud. Scholarship is everything! Pustelnik (talk) 02:10, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Common rugby song...the last line I of the version I know is 'sucking a redhot penis'

Plus the chorus is sometimes "Frigging in the rigging, frigging in the rigging, frigging in the rigging, cos there's fuck all else to do" or more flashily " Frigging in the rigging, Wanking on the planking, Materbating on the grating, cos there's fuck all else to do!"

I agree that based on what I've seen and read GSV is a more appropriate title. But then why do we begin the article "Friggin' in the Riggin also known as Good Ship Venus" rather than the converse?Cncoote (talk) 21:34, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can hardly believe this, but Oscar Brand recorded this in 1952! Pustelnik (talk) 01:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Other verses

i don't have access to the references, but 2 other verses i know go

1/ the captain's daughter mabel, was ready,and willing and able, to fornicate with the second mate, on top of the chartroom table. 2/ the cabin boy, the cabin boy, the dirty little nipper, he stuffed his ass with broken glass, and circumcised the skipper. Toyokuni3 (talk) 04:21, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

3/ the bosun's mate was Jack, he didn't have the knack. He tried to screw the virgin Sue and p!$$ed right up her cr@ck.

4. The First Mate's name was Hopper. Wow! He had a whopper! Twice round the deck, Twice round his neck, And up his arse for a stopper.

Heard circa 1963 at a Boy Scout camp. 121.44.130.3 (talk) 20:17, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unintentional contribution by Wikipedia

"You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." Indeed. UrsusMaximus (talk) 21:28, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

OK, I added the Infobox. I hesitate to ask, but does anyone have an appropriate photo? Also note that one of the ships captured by the Somali pirates was the Venus! Pustelnik (talk) 01:05, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

From another version

The second mates name was also Carter. But he was a musical farter. He could fart anything, from God save the King to Beethovens moonlight sonata. 2001:FB1:13B:F956:2488:2ED4:E7A3:C8AF (talk) 11:01, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]