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Thread #37679 Message #1104229
Posted By: Abby Sale
29-Jan-04 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Eskimo Nell
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Eskimo Nell
Yeah, but Greg...verses evolve in oral tradition. The verses in DigTrad are more common and are better scansion.
5. Now Deadeye Dick and Mexico Pete had been working Dead Man's Creek, And they'd had no luck in the way of a fuck for nigh on half a week --
36. He winked his arsehole in and out, and make his balls inflate Until they looked like granite knobs on top of a garden gate.
Yes, sounds like Service to me.
I think Joe, the poster of the text(s), clearly shows it's most likely of Canadian (and not Brit or USian) origin. And after all, how many Canadian poets are there?