Type of folk song

[LewPaper]

I've heard a few songs, usually rendered as a folk song, where the expected ending to a line is either replaced by another more harmless word or begins the following line. The word replaced is usually disgusting but so very funny.

One example is called 'Sweet Violets' but I've heard far funnier ones. Does anyone know the name of this type of song or can give examples?

[celeryman]

And Ive heard the roumers,theres lots of girls on winters nights go out without their GARTERS cos Mr Woos a window cleaner now. Good old George master of the genre.

[another-view]

'Twas on the good ship Venus,
By JOVE you should have seen us,
The Captain was a VERY NICE MAN
And all the crew were VERY NICE TOO."

Something like that.

[BigDogsWang]

I took my Granny to the station, to see a Steam Train shunt,
a piece of coal came flying out and hit her in the...

Country girls are pretty, country girls are slick, I sat a country girl on my knee, and she played with my...

Dick was a Bulldog, sitting on the grass, along came a bee and stung him up the...

Ask no questions, tell no lies, I saw a China man doing up his...

Flies are a nuisance, fleas are worse, that is the end of my silly little verse.


I was taught that when I was about 12.