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Lighter Origins: Red Light Saloon (Bawdy) (25) RE: Origins: Red Light Saloon (Bawdy) 15 Jan 25


Doerflinger, "Shantymen and Shantyboys" (1951), expurgated from the singing of Willis Norrad, Norrad's Bridge, near Boiestown, New Brunswick:

"A trip down to Bangor, the Fourth of July,
To make my connection with a train I did try.
The train it being late, as you all will know soon,
I was forced to take a trip to the Red Light Saloon.

I boldly walked in and stepped up to the bar,
When a saucy young damsel said. ‘Have a cigar!’
A cigar I did take, in a chair I sat down,
When a saucy young damsel came tripping around.

She boldly came over, sat down on my knee,
Saying, ‘Jack, you’re a woodsman, that I plainly see.’
Saying, ‘Jack, you’re a woodsman, and that we all now,
Your muscle is hard from your head to your toe!’. . ."


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