Carving with elbow nudges, Lobsters we throw behind, Vinegar nobody grudges, Lower boys drink it blind, Sober as so many judges, We'll give you a bit of our mind.
"Dreadnought" "Britannia" "Thetis", "St George" "Prince of Wales" and "Ten", And the eight poor souls whose meat is, Hard steak, and a harder hen, But the end of our long boat fleet is, Defiance to Westminster men.
An instrumental big band version of the tune by Ted Heath & His Music has been played regularly on the PA system at Coventry City's home matches.
[9] In the Thunderbirds episode "The Cham-Cham", Parker briefly sings part of the song as he prepares to go boating, before being called out on a mission by Lady Penelope.
The "Eton Boating Song" is briefly sung by the Earl of Gurney during his sanity examination in the play The Ruling Class and its 1972 film adaptation.
It is also played in 1972 comedy film The Adventures of Barry McKenzie in the scene where Mr. Gort, dressed as a schoolboy, urges the bewildered title character to whip him.
In his appearance on Inside the Actors Studio, Hugh Laurie - an Old Etonian - sang, with great embarrassment, the first verse of the "Eton Boating Song"; he also dryly commented on the homoeroticism that can be read into the phrase 'With your bodies between your knees'.