After the Ball Parody

An earlier post about a parody of a popular song brought in a number of responses. Gavin Atkin (now of Marden, Kent) sent me this one, which he remembers his father singing:

After the ball was over

She lay on the sofa and sighed

Put her false teeth in salt water

And took out her lovely glass eye

Propped up her leg in the corner

And hung up her wig on the door

And the rest of her went to by-byes

After the ball!

I've also been told that this was current in Herts/Cambridgeshire in the late 1970s/early 1980s. (I'll post the variant if I can get it taken down accurately).

I never tire of these parodies, and I also never tire of body-part songs, so expect more (and feel free to send me more).

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean Parody

I heard this from a classmate from Forest Hill in the early 1980s:

My granny went down to the cellar

To see where her gas-leak could be

She struck a match for to see better

Oh bring back my granny to me