Venezuela ("I met her in Ven-e-zu-e-la. . .") I don't find my tape of it but I thought Dyer-Bennet sang it. Or McCurdy.

As far as McCurdy goes, he did a good job of cornering the market. Look for his Blood Booze 'n Bones and Sin Songs, Pro and Con. I'll list the contents. You'll find a smattering of songs on the subject, but you'll find lots of references.

Sin Songs: PRO

Jolly boatsman
How happy is she
Roving gambler
I once had virtue
Gambler's song
Good boy's song
Good old mountain dew
Ballad of a young man
Rye Whiskey

Sin Songs: CON (second side)
Tobacco is an Indian weed
Three pretty fair maids
Young people who delight in sin
Poor Polly, the mad girl
Gambling on the Sabbeth day
She plays the game
John Adkin's farewell
Frozen Charlottie (this is a personal favorite!)
An address to all concerning death

Blood Booze 'n Bones
Darlin' Cory
Josie
Dublin murder ballad
Four nights drunk
Cowboy's lament
Kentucky moonshiner
No more booze
Farewell to grog
Portland County jail
Banks of the Ohio
John Hardy
Pig and the inebriate (another favorite!)
Stackerlee
Lamkins
Yo Ho Ho (The derelict)
Lulu
Drunkard's doom (boy, does this one get you!)

Then there are McCurdy's four Daliance albums. But the message there has more to do with sex and pleasure than the business prostitution.

A lot of cheating songs out there--and those are on the whole very funny. As I type this I'm listening to Dyer-Bennet and "Charleston Merchant" is on. "I'm goin' off to sea and I've come to get my chest. . ."

I have a Smithsonian collection around here some where with a whole bunch of blue (not to be confused with "The blues") songs and again, a smattering of songs like "If I can't sell it I'm sitting on it."

SRS