Friggin' in the Riggin' chords by Sex Pistols

"Good Ship Venus", also known as "Friggin' in the Riggin'", is a bawdy drinking song devised to shock with ever increasingly lewd and debauched sexual descriptions of the eponymous ship's loose-moraled crew. The tune usually used (especially for the chorus) is "In and Out the Windows". The lyrics exist in numerous variations. The opening verse is typically something along the lines of: 'Twas on the good ship Venus, By Christ you should have seen us, The figurehead Was a whore in bed, And the mast a rampant penis. The last line of which varies, such as Our crest a rampant penis or Sucking a dead man's penis. The usual rhyming structure for this song is the limerick AABBA structure. Oscar Brand recorded an early version in 1952, but the best-known version was recorded by the British punk band Sex Pistols, which appears on their Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle album, and was the finale track in the film of the same name. Released as part of a double-A side, it reached No. 3 in the UK singles chart in 1979 and was the band's biggest selling single. The American thrash metal band Anthrax covered the Sex Pistols' version, but with different lyrics. In 2006 Loudon Wainwright III recorded it on the compilation album Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys. The American punk band Showcase Showdown also released a version of the song on a tribute to the Sex Pistols. Serbian punk rock musician Toni Montano recorded a version of the song, with lyrics in the Serbian language, entitled "Frigidna je bila", relying on the Sex Pistols version. The chorus from The Sex Pistols version of the song was used in the opening titles of the Channel 4 situation comedy Captain Butler; minor variations to the words (in spoken form) were added, notably by the series' lead actor Craig Charles. A Royal Navy ship Venus plays is the setting of the film Carry On Jack. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.