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Thread #172182   Message #4166782
Posted By: and e
03-Mar-23 - 03:48 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Dying Harlot (Charlotte the Harlot)
Subject: RE: Origins: The Dying Harlot (Charlotte the Harlot)
I'm going to place over some the texts from the Charlotte the Harlot thread.
Subject: RE: Charlotte the Harlot
From: GUEST,Parthenon - PM
Date: 23 Apr 00 - 07:17 AM

Methinks there is some confusion here!

"Charlotte the Harlot" and "The Harlot of Jerusalem" are not the same lady.

In my student and rugby playing days I came across both ditties. "The Harlot of Jerusalem" was the most common by far. Charlotte the Harlot I heard infrequently, but the words were published, as a previous correspondent said, in one of the series of Rugby Songbooks, in the late sixties.

If my beer befuddled memory still works, the first verse of Charlotte goes something like:-

Charlotte the Harlot lay dying
A pisspot supporting her head
As the blowflies were buzzing around her
She leaned on her left tit and said-

I've been had by the army and navy
By a bullfighting toreador
By *****'s and dagoes and drongoes
But never by maggots before.

Not the song to sing over your Sunday brunch!


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