10 Jun 23 - 06:46 PM (#4174309) Subject: Lyr Add: THE JAILER'S SONG (1920s, Bawdy) From: and e THE JAILER'S SONG 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 |
10 Jun 23 - 06:50 PM (#4174310) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: THE JAILER'S SONG (1920s, Bawdy) From: and e The Mudcat Café TM From this Mudcat post: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=3548381 |
10 Jun 23 - 06:52 PM (#4174311) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: THE JAILER'S SONG (1920s, Bawdy) From: and e It is #169, "In the Prison Cell I Sit", pg 531 in Randolph's Unprintable volume #1. Sorry I don't have a copy. Can someone post the text ? |
10 Jun 23 - 07:02 PM (#4174313) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: THE JAILER'S SONG (1920s, Bawdy) From: and e LITTLE BALL OF YARN (3) Song #3616, in the Digital Tradition. Entered by Robert Greenhaus. See here: https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3616 |
10 Jun 23 - 07:19 PM (#4174317) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: THE JAILER'S SONG (1920s, Bawdy) From: and e Prison Life Pg 22, from Apples of Eden: A Private Collection of American Folk-Lore: Gathered from cowboys, college boys, and latino americanos by a liberal who does not believe that these choice morsels should be thrown out of American Literature because of their vigorous and unconventional language. After all, a manure pile by any other name would smell no better! And even a manure pile has its values. 77 pages. 4to. (Berkley, California? ca. 1945.) Typescript. https://archive.org/details/1945applesofeden/page/22/mode/1up?q=prison |
10 Jun 23 - 07:28 PM (#4174318) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: THE JAILER'S SONG (1920s, Bawdy) From: and e 169. IN THE PRISON CELL I SIT Pg 531, Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume 1, printed with music. See here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Unprintable_Ozark_Folksongs_and_Folklore/rXAE-KbkomsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22prison+cell+i+sit%22+shit&pg=PA531&printsec=frontcover |
10 Jun 23 - 08:10 PM (#4174320) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jailer's Song (1920s, Bawdy) From: Lighter The jail song is an dysphemistic travesty of George F. Root's Civil War hit, "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! or, The Prisoner's Hope" (1864, which begins, "In the prison cell I sit, thinking mother, dear, of you...." "Ball of Yarn" was inspired by "Winding Up Her Little Ball of Yarn" (1884), by Earl Marble and Polly Holmes: https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/139/059 |
10 Jun 23 - 08:28 PM (#4174321) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jailer's Song (1920s, Bawdy) From: GUEST,.gargoyle and e THANK YOU Sincerely, Gargoyle you bring new strength to these old bones of tallow. |
12 Jun 23 - 09:14 AM (#4174386) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jailer's Song (1920s, Bawdy) From: cnd and e, looks like you found all of it previously. I was hoping there may have been more on the next page not shown in the Google books preview, but alas, just the one page. You can also see it on archive.org |
12 Jun 23 - 11:40 AM (#4174403) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jailer's Song (1920s, Bawdy) From: GUEST,Hootenanny Re Ball of Yarn, I can only remember one verse in full which presumably is a London version. His younger sister Milly Was a whore in Piccadilly And his mother was another In Strand His father flogged his arse hole At the Elephant and Castle They're the biggest fucking family in he land |
13 Jun 23 - 06:11 PM (#4174484) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jailer's Song (1920s, Bawdy) From: Joe_F Aliter: Oh, my name is Diamond Lily, I'm a whore in Piccadilly, And my father runs a brothel in the Strand, And my brother sells his arsehole To the guards at Windsor Castle -- We're the finest fucking family in the land. |