Click on the Play button to hear the song. This is the Smear Test song, singer Jane Williams. The words are shown below. We are in the process of making a CD of Edwin’s songs to aid teaching. To be kept informed as soon as further material becomes available, please fill in the form at the foot of this page.

This song was written on request by Linda Hughes, Nurse Co-ordinator with Cervical Screening Wales and Community LDS Nurses in the Flintshire area who had heard some of the other songs and felt that a song about the smear test would be useful especially as Cervical Screening Wales would be working closely with school nurses in the future.

The song is aimed at young women from age 14 upwards and simply follows the process women have to go through in having a smear test. Phrases such as ‘Open your legs for me’ are quite deliberate so that it is to the point. We asked a number of women if they knew exactly what a smear test entailed when they went for the first time and the majority had not expected the process that actually happens to them during the test. As the song is sung by a woman (and from a nurse’s perspective) and given the light style of the music I think that lines such as ‘open your legs for me’ have the right context within this song and do not convey anything gratuitous or unsavoury. The song was discussed thoroughly by the teams in Flintshire before we agreed to the final composition of the song and it has turned out to be a popular song with the teams. No one to our knowledge has found anything offensive about the words. The song could be used at the end of a learning session or simply to just listen to. The words follow closely the information given in a Smear Test Information Pack by Penny Tomlinson and Alison Corfield, (Community LDS Nurses in Flintshire and Wrexham). The singer on this track is Jane Williams.