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Thread #173803 Message #4215379
Posted By: Lighter
15-Jan-25 - 01:48 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Red Light Saloon (Bawdy)
Subject: RE: Origins: Red Light Saloon (Bawdy)
Doerflinger, "Shantymen and Shantyboys" (1951), expurgated from the singing of Willis Norrad, Norrad's Bridge, near Boiestown, New Brunswick:
"A trip down to Bangor, the Fourth of July, To make my connection with a train I did try. The train it being late, as you all will know soon, I was forced to take a trip to the Red Light Saloon.
I boldly walked in and stepped up to the bar, When a saucy young damsel said. ‘Have a cigar!’ A cigar I did take, in a chair I sat down, When a saucy young damsel came tripping around.
She boldly came over, sat down on my knee, Saying, ‘Jack, you’re a woodsman, that I plainly see.’ Saying, ‘Jack, you’re a woodsman, and that we all now, Your muscle is hard from your head to your toe!’. . ."