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Thread #172487   Message #4175194
Posted By: and e
21-Jun-23 - 07:51 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (bawdy)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
...how I had transformed a bawdy verse that I'd learned in my teens
from a respected pharmacist.

Did you ever see Miss Margaret make water?
She pisses a wonderful stream,
Seventeen miles and a quarter,
And you an't see here twat for the steam.

You can see what I did to those noble lines on p. 179 of IM [Invisible Man].


Pg 781, The Select Letters of Ralph Ellison

See online here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Selected_Letters_of_Ralph_Ellison/DapQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22ever+see%22++%22make+water%22&pg=PA781&printsec=frontcover