Good Ship Venus
Traditional song
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Key Takeaways
- " Good Ship Venus ", also known as " Friggin' in the Riggin ' ", is a bawdy drinking song devised to shock with ever increasingly lewd and debauched sexual descriptions of the eponymous ship's loose-moralled crew.
- Lyrics The opening verse is typically something along the lines of: However, the lyrics exist in numerous variations.
- The usual rhyming structure for this song is the limerick AABBA structure.
- This may have led to speculation by those left behind, with fantasies leading to the creation of this drinking song.
"Good Ship Venus", also known as "Friggin' in the Riggin'", is a bawdy drinking song devised to shock with ever increasingly lewd and debauched sexual descriptions of the eponymous ship's loose-moralled crew. The tune usually used (especially for the chorus) is "Go In and Out the Window".
Lyrics
The opening verse is typically something along the lines of:
However, the lyrics exist in numerous variations. For example, the last line varies, being substituted with any of a large variety of phrases such as 'Our crest a rampant penis', 'With a mouth full of dead man's penis', or 'Sucking on a red-hot penis'.
The usual rhyming structure for this song is the limerick AABBA structure.
A few other verses:
Origin
It is possible that this song was inspired by an actual event, where a female convict (Charlotte Badger), sailing on the colonial brigantine Venus, persuaded members of the crew to commandeer the vessel, sailing from Port Dalrymple, Tasmania, (now part of George Town, Tasmania) in 1806.
Despite various reports, the ultimate fate of the Venus is unknown. This may have led to speculation by those left behind, with fantasies leading to the creation of this drinking song. One of the verses also refers to a 'Charlotte':
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