Hi,

BTW you can hear the Three Tobacco Tags song here:

http://www.juneberry78s.com/otmsampler/otmsampat374.html

Here's the Pretty Polly variant:


Lyr add: PRETTY POLLY (Variant of "Snoring Maid")

Sung by Mrs. M.M. of Springfield MO Aug. 27, 1938
She learned the song in the 1890's

Pretty Polly, Pretty Polly
Oh won't you come to me?
Pretty Polly, Pretty Polly
Oh won't you come to me?
Oh no, my young man,
I'm afraid you'll undo me
Just lie your leg over me, do!

Her drawers they was tied
An' he couldn't undo them
Her drawers they was tied
An' he couldn't undo them
She snored and cied,
Just take your knife to them
Just lie your leg over me, do!

An' then they began,
Like lightnin' an' thunder
An' then they began,
Like lightnin' an' thunder
On the green green grass,
Pretty Polly layin' under.
Just lie your leg over me, do!

In about nine months
Polly went to weepin',
In about nine months
Polly went to weepin',
An' then she remembered
That crawlin' an' creepin'
Just lie your leg over me, do!

Richie