The Ring-Dang-Doo

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I met a girl the other night.
She surely was a lovely sight.
I gave her hugs and kisses too,
And tired to feel her ring-dang-doo.

Chorus:
Oh, ring-dang-doo, oh, what is that?
Soft and round like a pussy cat,
Soft and round and split in two,
"Why that," she said, "is my ring-dang-doo."

She took me down into her cellar
And said I was a damned fine feller.
She gave me wine and whiskey too,
And let me play with her ring-dang-doo.

She laid her down upon her bed,
And put a pillow 'neath her head.
She took my cock-a-doodle-doo
And slipped it in her ring-dang-doo.

The jizzum came just like a flood.
The bedclothes they were soaked with blood.
I screwed her twice and she came too,
And washed the blood from her ring-dang-do.

We tried it lying on the floor
And standing up behind the door,
And tried it upside, downside too,
I couldn't quit diddling her ring-dang-doo.

Her mother said, "You God damned fool,
He broke your hymen with his tool.
So pack your kit and then skidoo,
And go to hell with your ring-dang-doo."

So now she is a dirty whore
With a painted sign above the door:
Two dollars now and two-bits two,
To take a crack at her ring-dang-doo.

The years went by and ring-dang-doo
Taught nice young fellows how to screw.
One dollar cash, six bits will do
To take a crack at ring-dang-doo.

	This is from the Canfield Collection amassed in 1926 from a number of correspondents nationally.  Canfield had another which adds after the "father" verse of "A":

"Oh, mother dear, I'm not to blame;
When you were young you did the same.
From sweet sixteen to sixty-two,
My old man played with your ring-dang-doo." 

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Down on the farm, where I met Sue,
I used to play with her ring dang doo!

She moved to town and became a whore,
And she painted a sign and put above her door:

"Come all you young, and you old ones, too,
Come take a pop at my ring dang doo."

I took one pop at her ring dang doo,
And that is why I sing to you.

My cock has rotted through and through
Since I took that pop at her ring dang doo!

	Sung by Phenoi Deschamps, J. Kenneth Larson's Idaho informant, who provided a number of unusual songs.  No tune is indicated in the Larson "Barnyard" typescript.

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Chorus: 
The ringadangdoo, pray what is that?
It's furry and soft, like a pussycat,
It's got a crack down the middle, and a hole right through,
That's what they call the ringadangdoo.

I once knew a girl, her name was Jean,
The sweetest girl I'd ever seen,
She loved a boy who was straight and true,
Who longed to play on her Ringadangdoo.

So she took him to her father's house,
And crept inside as quiet as a mouse,
And they shut the door and the window too,
And he played all night on her Ringadangdoo.

The very next day her father said,
"You've gone and lost your maidenhead!
You can pack your bag and suitcase too,
And bugger off with your Ringadangdoo."

So she went to town and became a whore,
And hung a red light outside her door,
And one by one and two by two,
They came to play on her Ringadangdoo.

There came to that town a son of a bitch,
Who had the pox and the seven-year itch,
He had gonorrhea and syphilis too
So that was the end of her Ringadangdoo.

Paul Woodford's "Hash Hymns II" (Honolulu, Hawaii, 1994) gives this as number 104, sung to the melody of "How Dry I Am."

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This recitation ???????????????? was forwarded by John Garst <garst@sunchem.chem.uga.edu



>on October 11, 1997.  BLACK currency as a toast?  See Abrahams?

Well, when I was young,
 and we moved away,

Well, I left behind
 all my friends that day.

Well, it made me sad
 until my new neighbor girl,

Showed me her ring dang do.


Well, a ring dang do
, what the heck is that?

Well it's soft and warm
, just like a pussycat.

And like a pussycat,
 you can pet it too.


Me and that girl
 liked to play at her house.

One day me and that girl
 played up on her couch.

When her mom walked in,
 honest unanounced
,
Well, I got scared
 and I tried to run.

But her mom grabbed me
 by my tommygun.

Well, about that time
 little tommy sprayed.

Her hands got wet and I slipped away


From that Ring Dang Do,
 what the heck is that?

Well, it's soft and warm,
 just like a pussycat.
 
And like a pussycat,
 you can pet it too.

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