Please circulate to interested parties
This web page is
dedicated to the collection of
S**T SONGS
FROM
AROUND THE WORLD
In October 2023 I sent out a call to
fellow ethnomusicologists for songs that deal with s**t. That most fundamental of
human topics.
This was in the context of our S**t
Conference @ SOAS
See: www.geocities.ws/s**tology
The response was remarkable.
Contributions arrived from all around the world.
They are assuredly deserving of being
archived so that they can be duly studied, and possibly also learned, practised, performed and enjoyed.
To that end I am publishing (below) a
LIST OF S**T SONGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
These songs, both individually and as a
collection, are frankly amazing. A good subject for several
potential PhDs.
For the time being the indexing and
presentation is rudimentary. But perhaps with the passing of time we shall be
able to provide texts, annotations, translations etc.
Some of the songs have links to lyrics.
More will follow, in time.
If you would like to assist in this
work, it would be good to hear from you. Write to:
A LIST OF S**T SONGS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD
[in
no particular order]
__________
Hayseed
‘I’m
Keeping Your Poop (in a Jar)’
__________
Lost
Dogs:
‘Bad
Indigestion’ [Lyrics]
__________
Funkadelic:
‘Promentals**tbackwashpsychosis
Enema Squad (The Doo-Doo Chasers)’
__________
Fela Kuti:
‘Expensive
S**t’
__________
Biz
Markie:
Title:
‘T.S.R. (Toilet Stool Rap)’
__________
Bob
Log III:
Title:
‘ I Want Your S**t on my Leg’
__________
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins:
Title:
‘Constipation Blues’
__________
The
Bonzo Dog Band:
Title:
‘The Strain’
__________
The
Mac Lads:
Title:
‘Dan’s Big Log’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8awaQSok5PQ
__________
Ween:
Title:
‘Poop Ship Destroyer’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxAbyCwEZw
__________
Ween:
‘Don’t
S**t Where You Eat my Friend’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCwk9lWwiI4
__________
Kunt and the Gang:
‘Bangers
and Mash’
__________
Ivor Biggun:
Title:
‘Richard the Third (He’s in the Business Now)’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQvPOlSdvhw
__________
Griff Pilchard:
Title:
‘Henry the Giant Turd’
__________
Ian
Dury:
Title:
‘Poo Poo in the Prawn’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTE1rCcMaZY
__________
Benny
Bell:
Title:
‘Shaving Cream’ (not sure if this one counts either, but worth a listen!)
__________
Fat
Pud:
Title: ‘The Spoons Bog Log Song’
[Dr
Sue Miller provided this explanation: “One of my students submitted this for
our music video project - sadly he hasn't put up the animation that went with
the log song - a trip around
__________
Mr Jowett:
Title:
‘Who Put a Solid in the Downstairs Loo?’
__________
Mr Tits:
Title:
‘Things I Like Doing, Number One Pooing’
__________
Mr Tits:
Title:
‘There’s Poo’
__________
Chumbawumba:
Title:
‘Mouthful of S**t’
(Metaphorical
s**t?)
__________
Donovan:
Title:
‘The Intergalactic Laxative’
__________
Title:
‘Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo’
(slightly different versions)
__________
The
Salty Seamen:
Title: ‘I S**t my Pants’
(apparently not The Fugs?)
__________
The
Fugs
Title:
‘I Feel Like Homemade S**t’
__________
Ezio Pinza and the
Title:
‘A Lovely Song’
__________
Gutalax:
Title:
‘Diarrhero’
Dear friends. We have a new videoclip
made by the master of cartoons Jan Tornad Ivan from
Animal Studio. Video is about a new superhero whose name is DIARRHERO
!!! Gutalax - Czech Republic 2023
Provided by: R.R.
__________
A couple of contributions from Chilean popular
musicians from the 90s and 00s.
Chancho en Piedra
Title:
"
__________
Los
Mox
Title:
"Ataque de caca"
("S**t attack"), from Vino caliente... tomó y se fue. 2001.
Provided by S. P.
__________
'Skata' [meaning: s**t], from the Greek band 'Methismena Xotika' [meaning:
drunken elves].
Provided by E. P.
__________
Drakator: an underground punk band from
Title:
“Deep in s**t [Music for the Office]”
Lyrics:
You
are buried in s**t [in s**t]
In
s**t [in s**t]
Deep
in s**t -you are buried deep in s**t.
Provided by: C. K.
__________
As
an ethnomusicologist, my work is mostly on the southern region of
Here
it is
Palazzu chi de mmerda si
'ntoriatu
e fravicatu de strunzicchi
hini
de intra ci sta tu donna cacata
che tieni 'n peste tutti li
vicini
Building
(palace) adorned with s**t ----> this is a parody of a verse
used in the wishing songs repertoire where the palace is adorned with gems
and cemented with fine (exquisite) turds
You
s**tted woman live inside it
and stink out all the neighbourhood
Love
songs were sung as serenades to the beloved one. In case of rejection, a scorn
song would be sung under the balcony.
Provided by: C. F.
__________
Title:
"Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo".
Provided by: A. P. K.
__________
Italian songs. The first two feature s**t as a somewhat
sophisticated metaphor. The last is a children song.
Lucio Dalla:
Title:
Merdman
Lyrics:
Merdman
__________
Elio e le Storie Tese:
Title:
La Ditta
Lyrics:
Ditta
__________
Giovanni
Caviezel e Roberto Piumini
– 1992
Title:
La Canzone Della Cacca
Provided by: C. F.
__________
Title:
The frontier hymn from Blazing Saddles!
https://youtu.be/HPrdomEq5Ro?si=F2VbaGtJhTAK_HUM
Provided by R. A.
__________
Title:
the American fiddle tune: 'Who S**t in Grandpa's Hat?'
Provided by: N. M.
__________
Lady Gaga - Scheiße
(Official Audio) - YouTube
SDP x 257ers - Scheiße
baut sich nicht von alleine - YouTube - socially disadvantaged
upbringing
Bschütte Lied - Gülle Song
- YouTube - singing about putting
dung on the field
Tic Tac
Toe - Ich Find Dich Scheisse - YouTube -
famous feminist rap from the 90s, disliking someone
PANTHA - Richtig scheisse (Offizielles Musikvideo) - YouTube -
woman singing about how she dislikes her ex
257ers - Fließend Scheiße (Official Video) - YouTube -
(image warning, very graphic) criticizing someone who keeps on talking s**t;
and how talking s**t is also art
Scheisse - YouTube -
oi punk, "scheisse"
as an exclamation of self-realization that one needs to get through something
that one started
Die Ärzte - Scheisstyp - YouTube -
a s**t person criticized for oppressing others
BJÖRN BANANE SCHEIßLIED
- YouTube - some Schlager-style song/Ballermann style, ideas expressed are from the anti-government, anti-covid regulations, parody on the "toilet paper apokalypse" of 2020
Kerstin Ott - Scheissmelodie (Offizielles Musikvideo) - YouTube -
Schlager style, a melody that is perceived as s**tty and brings certain memories
back
Provided by: C. M.
__________
I’d
like to add a Scottish Gaelic port-a-beul (mouth
music) that is well-known both in Gaelic
Here’s
a recording made in Scotland.
Here’s
a recording made in
Nova Scotia (the speaker, Isabelle MacIsaac
starts by saying that this song was about a priest).
Here
are the lyrics in Gaelic and
in English translation.
And
here’s a professional
recording of the song, sung by Julie Fowlis
of
Provided by: H. S.
__________
Hong
Kong Cantopop star Andy Lau had a song entitled
"Toilet Bowl" (馬桶). It's not explicitly about "s**t," but
it does include imagery related to "s**t" in the lyrics and music
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIDe6YJmi7w&ab_channel=macoto20jyyyun
Provided by: M-Y.
__________
Relatively
popular song in
屎我係一篤屎 (S**t I’m a piece of s**t)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR9AovhyZdo
Provided by A. W.
__________
I’m
assuming the scatalogical works of Mozart have already
made the list, but if not here is
“Leck
https://youtu.be/C78HBp-Youk?si=OY0bFaoWJyoTPCd8
Provided by: K. M. B.
__________
Ezio Pinza and the
Title:
"A Lovely Song"
Provided by: R. R.
__________
Eminem/D12
Title:
'S**t on You'.
Provided by: P. M.
__________
Japanese childrens’ song. Very common, probably all Japanese who grew up in
Title:
‘Mi-chan michi michi’
Provided by: Y. H. C.
__________
Here
is a TikTok/Instagram reel of a
"S**t Show Party on the Potty" stage at an EDM Festival. It appears
it is the Defcon1 festival organized by the QDance
label. There are three in the world, in the
So
here is the artist: https://www.instagram.com/gezellige_uptempo/
And the videos of the festival performance.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvM1tdFAIJO/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
And
https://www.tiktok.com/@prinz_balzke_the_third/video/7249333225879784731
Provided by: C. M.
__________
I
would like to contribute two quite well-known German songs to your collection,
which I remember singing from my childhood during the 1980s.
The
first one is an open-ended series of stanzas which describe what happens when
there is s**t in various places, e.g., when you have s**t on the lampshade, it
dims the light in the room etc. It apparently came up during the 1970s in
There
are numerous stanzas, here is a collection of some of
them:
https://www.volksliederarchiv.de/scheisse/
And
here is recording, using the typical melody ("Pay Me My Money Down"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8cyvK9Efc
The
other one is "Auf dem Donnerbalken"
(roughly: on the s**thouse; literally "on the
thunder beam"), which is about a a growing series of people who sit on the Donnerbalken, describing what happens, when the next person
sits on the Donnerbalken (e.g., the s**t is already
foaming), and telling that they all scream for toilet paper. The tenth person
brings the toilet paper.
Here
are the lyrics:
https://www.volksliederarchiv.de/auf-dem-donnerbalken-sassen-zwei-gestalten-klopapier/
Here
is a recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xld6z8D8t0
Provided by: M. S.
__________
Here
is one from
Provided by K. D.
__________
Here
is one from Latvian folklore side.
Title:
"S**t song"
Provided
by: Ilze Borodkina
__________
I wanted to add a Christmas song from
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ0mGazsAkU>
and the log s**ts Christmas
gifts.
Provided by: A-M. A.
__________
Not
forgetting of course El Caganer, who is the little
man in the red bonnet whom you will find out the back of the Christmas Nativity
cribs that families have in Catalonia, with Jesus, and Mary, and Joseph, and
the Three Wise Men. and he is s**tting
his own personal little "offering".
https://youtu.be/s5__1E5AiMw?si=AUkRERptB-sSOVjl
Subsequent
redactions of this figure have transformed him into Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, the Pope and Queen Elizabeth II.
https://caganer.com/en/300-politicians
Provided by E. E.
__________
And a humorous contribution from Haitian rapper Dimilòm!
Kaka Kenben
Provided by C. S.
__________
On
a more homely note:
Title:
Seven old ladies got locked in the lavatory
Lyrics:
Seven old ladies
__________
Title:
Blinded by s**t
Lyrics:
Blinded by s**t
__________
And Roberto de Simone’s
‘Tarantella de lu cacare. Best s**t song ever.
Lyrics:
Tarantella
Provided by E. E.
__________
Ends
Last updated: 20 November 2023
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