jukebox for December 22

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EVERYBODY WANTS MY FANNY
by Benny Bell


Everyone is out to get my Fanny
Everybody wants to see my Fanny
Everybody likes to hold my Fanny
But she loves no one but me

Everybody wants to seize my Fanny
Everybody likes to squeeze my Fanny
They do everything to please my Fanny
Still she loves no one but me

Oh, don't touch my Fanny
Please don't ever try
My little Fanny
Is reserved for just one guy

That's why I never let another love light blind me
Everywhere I go you'll always find me
With my little Fanny right behind me
'Cause she's so in love with me

Everyone who ever spied my Fanny
Tried to hang around beside my Fanny
Maybe I should go and hide my Fanny
Or she'll find somebody new

I've seen lots of fannies in my time
And frequently their cheeks were close to mine
But never have I held one so divine
Like the Fanny that belongs to me

We will be married
Some day next June
And when we go away
To spend our honeymoon

I know that everyone is goin'a miss my Fanny
No one ever could resist my Fanny
But they wouldn't dare to kiss my Fanny
'Cause she's so in love with me

[Lyrics courtesy of The Mad Music Archive]
(If you enjoyed this, you might also like Shaving Cream, The Automobile Song, Why Buy a Cow When Milk is Cheap, or some of his other tunes over at archive.org.)
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Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

That's even more offensive in England.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

In England it makes no sense at all. They don't have "cheeks" and they don't go right behind you. I am guessing they know what the word means here, partly because I think it used to mean the same there as it does here.

At one point, there was a stage farce with a maid named Fanny, and in one scene, the lady of the house is hollering for the maid while telling someone about a misbehaving door. The dialog is something like: "Fanny! FANNY! I swear, you can't get good help any more. Watch out for the door, every time you bend over it hits you right in the-- FANNY! Where is that girl?" The house, reportedly, exploded in mirth, and folks came to the show just to witness that line.

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I hear people on this side of the pond say "don't let the door hit you on your fanny on the way out" when they're aiming for a euphemism. I permit myself a knowledgeable transatlantic smile.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

My maternal grandmother was named Fanny. Maybe that's why I turned out the way I did.