In the first four verses, a boy pesters his father to take him and his numerous friends to the drive-in theatre, the funfair, a wrestling match (between the Canadian Ski Hi Lee and the South African Willie Liebenberg), and finally to a distant beach in Durban, with a chorus chanting: "Popcorn, chewing gum, peanuts and bubblegum".
[3] The song aroused significant controversy, with many Afrikaners unhappy about the mixing of Afrikaans and English in the lyrics, and its "far-from-flattering" representation of working-class whites, although some praised it for its "gutsiness".
"[6] Post-apartheid, the song was described as "vulgar and base, revealing the raw side of South Africans in all their humour",[7] and "a liberating anthem for hitherto doomed anglophone youth".
Outside this context, the word "nigger" was not widely used in South Africa at the time, or considered unduly offensive; but it was growing increasingly controversial in the United States, and in subsequent years became effectively taboo in all Anglophone countries.
When A New Book of South African Verse in English was published by Oxford University Press in 1979, edited by Guy Butler and Chris Main, the lyrics of "Ag Pleez Deddy" were included but the offending words were altered to "acid-drops", without Taylor's authority and to his great annoyance.