Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Charlotte the Harlot
From: Abby Sale - PM
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:51 AM

I finally have "Charlotte the Harlot Lay Dying" on a record (on which it's called "Charlotte the Harlot," just to keep us confusd.) It's on the superb Salty Dick's Uncensored Sailor Songs (available at Camsco & Immortalia) which is not only excellently sung but the CD for the first time gives good text & background on a bunch of these songs.

It's Australian, of course, and seems to have no connection at all with "Charlotte the Harlot" except the title & being a tragic song of her death. Enough new songs (and Art in general) are created with no more reliance on an old idea that the two songs could derive one from the other.

Here are "Richard Docker's" words - a few extra over those posted.

Charlotte the Harlot lay dying, a pisspot supporting her head,
Surrounded by six horny sailors, she rolled on her left tit and said,

"I've been fucked by the Pohmmies and Irish, I've been fucked by the
                            Yanks and the Jews,
Now I've come over here to Australia to be fucked by bastards like you.

So out with your dirty old organs, and gimme the juice of your nuts.
Out with your dirty old organs and I'll tattoo my name on your guts."

(Notice that she has not been fucked by cowboys.)

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In a later post Abby Sale confirms that the tune is "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean".