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Thread #172523   Message #4176206
Posted By: and e
06-Jul-23 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation)
...They fucked and fucked for hours and hours
A-tearing up trees and shrubs and flowers...

Part of text "D" of the recitation "Lady Lil" collected from Mr. A. M., Columbia, Missouri, October 3, 1948. He heard it recited at Kirksville, Missouri in 1918. in Blow the Candle Out: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Folklore by Vance Randolph (Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1992), Vol. 2, page 668. Edited & annotated by G. Legman

The "Head? Who said head?" shares that rhyme with the "Lady Lil" recitation.