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Mark

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Anyone remember caving songs
 

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tamarmole

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Someone published a really good anthology of caving songs in the late 90s /early 2000s.  Unfortunately I lent my copy to someone and never saw it again.  Contained such classic as "Neoprene Ned the caver".  With regard to the BSA I recall this "gem" as a variation to the version above (to be sung to the tune of Clementine), from memory it goes:

Chorus:
Oh me cavers, Oh me cavers, oh me cavers so sublime, out of caverns into taverns where we drink till closing time.

Verse:
See the Beesa up at GG with their sexual machine, Burgess cranking, Simmy w***ing, its the finest sight you've ever seen.

Verse:
See fat Eli stuck in passage, see him wallow in the slime, stick a carbide up his backside, he'll be out in record time.

By t'heck, they don't right them like that anymore  ;)



 

Pitlamp

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See the Craven,
Up at Malham,
Excavating for a mine.
Sinking shafts of huge dimensions,
Just to pass away the time.

(Refers to the great dig down from the water sinks below Malham Tarn in the early 1950s. The fact this was refilled is a real tragedy, given what we now know lies under the Watlowes.)

There are other verses which I can't remember full details of but I do recall many an evening in the Helwith when the full song was given a mighty rendition.
 

yrammy

Member
You cant beat Caving Matilda.

Caving Matilda
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Once a jolly caver came upon a squalid hole
Under the shade of a rowan tree.
And he sang as he tied his ladder to a stalagmite
who'll come a-caving matilda with me
caving matilda, caving matilda
who'll come a-caving matilda with me
and he sang as he tied his ladder to a stalagmite
who'll come a-caving matilda with me
Far beneath the surface, deep inside a bedding plane
where cries the caver can the through route be
and he sang as he heard the murmur of a waterfall
who'll come a-caving matilda with me
caving etc.
Up rose the storm clouds down came the thunder rain
up rose the waters, turf brown sea
and he sang as the waters flowed into that bedding plane
who'll come a-caving matilda with me
caving etc.
Up came the rescue mounted on an ambulance
up came the wardens one, two, three.
and the sang as they festered, waiting for the tea to brew
who'll come a-caving matilda with me
caving etc.
Far beneath the surface deep inside a bedding plane
there lies a caver ne'er to be found
and his voice can be heard as you pass by that bedding plane
who'll come a-caving matilda with me

 
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