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Thread #172467   Message #4174309
Posted By: and e
10-Jun-23 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Jailer's Song (1920s, Bawdy)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE JAILER'S SONG (1920s, Bawdy)
THE JAILER'S SONG
(Dick Palfreyman [informant])

In the prison cell I sit,
With my fingers dipped in sh---,
While the mice shoot craps upon the floor;
If you want to hear the f---,
You just spread their legs apart,
And they'll blow you through the keyhole in the door!

In the prison cell I sit,
With y shirt-tail dipped in s---,
And my balls a-hanging loose upon the floor;
And the women as they pass,
Shoot peanuts at my a--;
I don't want to go to prison any more!


Pg 40, From Songs and Ballads: Folk Material and Old Favorites, Collected by [James] Kenneth Larson in McCammon, Idaho. Undated [c1933], typescript. Tune not indicated. Dash expurgation in the original.

See online here: https://archive.org/details/1933-1972jameskennethlarson/page/n39/mode/1up