Lyr Req: Urgent need help -found- No John No

Subject: Lyr Reqneed help finding a certain bawdy song fast
From: GUEST,desperate
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 11:14 AM

so there is this really great song about a wife and her husband is leaving and says that she must say no to every guy that comes her way. and then she meets a guy and she keeps saying no but then he re words everything to make so they can do stuff and she still say no. it was a really great song and i wanted to sing it at a bardic competition tonight. and i really need help

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Urgent need help finding a song
From: Deckman
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 11:17 AM

What are the chords? bad,bad, bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Urgent need help finding a song
From: curmudgeon
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 11:18 AM

Check "Oh No, John" in the DT.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Urgent need help finding a song
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 11:20 AM

thank you so much it was "oh No, John". you just saved my life

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Urgent need help finding a song
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 12:47 PM

Wow, that was easy! :)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Urgent need help finding a song
From: GUEST,leeeia
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 12:58 PM

Curmudgeon, that was simply brilliant.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Urgent need help finding a song
From: curmudgeon
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 01:20 PM

Having been immersed in traditional song for over fifty years has resulted in thousands of song/tune fragments and plots to be rattling around in my head.

In this case, it was an educated guess, especially as I remembered the verse as, "My FATHER was a Spanish Captain..."

What's more, after I posted my theory, my mind started hearing Peggy Seeger's voice singing the refrain, "Always answer the young man no." A variant? a totally different song?

BTW, I think I first heard Oh No, John sung by John Runge.

Pleased to be of service - Tom

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Urgent need help finding a song
From: Amos
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 02:19 PM

Went to sea two years ago.
First he kissed me, then he left me,
Bade me always answer "No".


An old favorite....



A

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Urgent need help finding a song
From: GUEST,Noreen
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 07:42 PM

The bowdlerised version i was taught at school, Tom, had 'my father' but the orginal was 'my husband' and went rather further!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Urgent need help finding a song
From: Tangledwood
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 07:54 PM

thank you so much it was "oh No, John". you just saved my life


What bardic competition was this? You seem to play for very high stakes.