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Thread #72240   Message #2752804
Posted By: Young Buchan
26-Oct-09 - 05:27 AM
Thread Name: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs
Subject: RE: I have lost my underwear & other underwear songs
A few more items from the underwear drawer:

Take off, take off my gown of silk
But let my petticoat be,
And tie a napkin round my eyes
That the gallows I may not see.
             Mary Hamilton (and also similar in Earl of Warriston)

What's it to any man whether or no
Whether I'm easy or whether I'm true?
As I lifted her petticoat easy and slow
And tied up my sleeve for to buckle her shoe.
             Dom Behan

Flashy dashy petticoats
Flashy dashy shawls
Four and a tanner's worth of boots -
We're the Gallus Molls
             from Jeannie Robertson

Choruses of different versions of Robin-a-Thrush include 'Flashy green petticoats' and 'Show us your petticoat'

She's kilted up her petticoats
And after him rode she.
                False Lover Won Back and just about any other ballad where a girl gets on a horse

As we jogged on together, my boys, together side by side
By chance this fair maid's garter, by chance it came untied
For fear that she might lose it, I unto her did say
"Oh my love your garter is come untied, sing folderoliddle all day.

As we jogged on together, my boys, the grass was growin' high
I laid this girl upon her back, her garter for to tie
While tying of her garter, such sights you never did see
And we both jogged on together, me boys, sing folderoliddle all day.
             Umps and Dumps