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01 Oct 01 - 04:57 AM (#562390) Subject: womens drinking songs From: CharlieA Ok, now i am by no means a feminist. I am however rather bored by my lack of knowledge of drinking songs specifically for women. There are many for men about wenching, drinking etc but arn't great for a woman to sing. I'd love to learn some bawdy type songs that i can sing. anyone able to help? Cxxx |
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01 Oct 01 - 05:09 AM (#562395) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: The_one_and_only_Dai Three Drunken Maidens. COTTON MILL GIRLS? MY HUSBAND'S GOT NO COURAGE IN HIM Drop us a midi if you've got the resources. |
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01 Oct 01 - 05:15 AM (#562397) Subject: ADD: Three Drunken Maidens^^^ From: GUEST Suprisingly, doesn't seem to be in the DT:
Three Drunken Maidens
There were three drunken maidens come from the Isle of Wight.
Then up comes bouncing Sally, her cheeks as red as a bloom.
There's woodcock and pheasant, there's partridge and hare.
Well then up comes the landlord, he's asking for his pay.
So where are your feathered hats, your mantles rich and fine? |
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01 Oct 01 - 05:16 AM (#562398) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: CharlieA I know the last one vaguely but not the others - are they in the forum? if not any chance of the lyrics. Thanx. Cxxx P.S. any more suggestions welcome. |
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01 Oct 01 - 05:23 AM (#562401) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: GUEST Here you go Murray: |
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01 Oct 01 - 05:24 AM (#562402) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Murray MacLeod For a different take on female drinking, try DICEY REILLY . Murray |
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01 Oct 01 - 05:25 AM (#562403) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Murray MacLeod Telepathy, Guest? Murray |
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01 Oct 01 - 05:26 AM (#562404) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: The_one_and_only_Dai Charlie, Cotton Mill Girls. Three Drunken Maidens is posted by GUEST above. HUSBAND WITH NO COURAGE IN HIM is in the digitrad. |
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01 Oct 01 - 08:17 AM (#562458) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Bat Goddess Well, then there's another reason for drinking: "Mickey's Warning" also sometimes called "BLUE BLEEZING BLIND DRUNK" which I learned from a recording by Belle Stewart and I think is in the DigiTrad under one of those titles. "Of whiskey I ne're was a lover, but what can a poor woman do? Bat Goddess |
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01 Oct 01 - 10:26 AM (#562517) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Joe_F I am not sure if it's still in print, but _The Bawdy Ladies' Book_, a tape by Wild Rose (Anne Goodwin & Anabel Graetz, with Linda Lombardi), 1986, contains a variety of suitable songs, beginning with the already mentioned "Three Drunken Maidens" and ending with a women's version of "Roll Your Leg Over". The Bawdy Ladies are still around, so the address on the tape may be worth a try: Wild Rose, c/o SONG, P.O. Box 27, Cambridge, MA 02140. In the meantime, the following limerick, when I last sang it, caused the two ladies named Sue in the company to raise their eyebrows at each other: There was once a young lady named Sue, Who preferred a stiff drink to a screw. But one leads to the other, And now she's a mother: Let that be a lesson for you! |
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01 Oct 01 - 10:48 AM (#562536) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: GUEST,mgarvey@pacifier.com Beermaids of Valhalla, by Andrea Aldridge, I believe. I don't really know..just heard if a time or two. mg Offsite: Beer Maids in Valhalla |
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01 Oct 01 - 11:38 AM (#562570) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: CharlieA Hmm Beermaids of Valhalla - that sounds good - it's not in the database - anyone got the words Cxxx |
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01 Oct 01 - 11:46 AM (#562578) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Dave the Gnome Couple that could be easily adapted
Come landlord(landlady?) fill the flowing bowl Both in the DT (or is it with the DT's?) I think. Cheers Dave the Gnome |
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01 Oct 01 - 01:59 PM (#562683) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Herga Kitty The poor lonely widow - I can dance, I can sing, I'm as good now as ever, fond of me whiskey and good in a row, just 45 both witty and clever, I wonder if anyone will marry me now. It's in Bob Copper's Songs and Southern Breezes, and the tune's a variant of Constant Billy. Pm me if you can't find it. One you can adapt- I have drunk one and I will drink two, I can drink as much as anyone of you, for I've been and done what the rest have done, me and my good companions. I have drunk two and I will drink three, there sits a woman/ man who drinks whiskey free etc. Kitty |
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01 Oct 01 - 03:44 PM (#562767) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Noreen Guest, Three Drunken Maidens IS in the DT, found easily by putting those very words in the Digitrad and Forum Search box on the Forum page. Noreen |
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01 Oct 01 - 09:54 PM (#563015) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: dick greenhaus There's also a more explicit "Four Drunken Maidens". Also in DT. Please, please, please don't limit your searches to titles. |
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01 Oct 01 - 10:15 PM (#563031) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: GUEST,chrisj There's a song (i think its traditional, possibly Lancashire?) that is called something like " The Day We Went to Bangor". [DAYTRIP TO BANGOR] It seems to me to have a woman's viewpoint on generally having a good time. Whenever i hear it i'm reminded of girls from a factory or mill going on a bus (they'd probably say 'coach') outing to the seaside |
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01 Oct 01 - 10:28 PM (#563039) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Murray MacLeod Didn't Terry Wogan have a "hit" with "The Day We Went to Bangor"? Or is my memory playing tricks? Murray |
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02 Oct 01 - 12:28 AM (#563132) Subject: Lyr Add: CUSHIE BUTTERFIELD^^^ From: GUEST,maire You might consider 'Cushie Buttermilk'. It may be in the database, but if it isn't, here's goes: CUSHIE BUTTERFIELD I's a broken-hearted keelman and ower-head (sic) in love, With a young lass in Gateside and I call her my dove, Her name's Cushie Butterfield and she sells yellow clay, And her cousin is a muck-man and they call him Tom Grey. Chorus: She's a big lass and a bonnie lass and she likes her beer, And they call her Cushie Butterfield and I wish she were here. Her eyes is like two holes in a blanket burnt through Her brows in a morning would spyen a young cow, And when I hear her shoutin' 'Will ye buy any clay?' Like a candyman's trumpet, it steals my heart away. Chorus:^^^ |
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02 Oct 01 - 01:08 AM (#563146) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: GUEST CUSHIE BUTTERFIELD is already in the DT database with the full 5 verses. Wassail! V |
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02 Oct 01 - 01:12 AM (#563150) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Liz the Squeak I've got a few hangover songs, written by a woman, so I suppose they fit?? Let me know if you want them... LTS |
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02 Oct 01 - 02:11 AM (#563171) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Herga Kitty The day we went to Bangor was a hit for Fiddler's Dram(some of whom metamorphosed into the Oyster Band)with Cathy le Serf. On Roger Holt's Dingles label. |
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02 Oct 01 - 03:15 AM (#563180) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: dr soul DON'T YOU MAKE ME HIGH (DON'T YOU FEEL MY LEG) Don't you buy me gin, no don't you buy me rye, 'Cause if you buy me rye, you're gonna make me high, So don't you buy no rye. Don't you feel my leg, don't you feel my thigh 'Cause if you feel my thigh, you're gonna make me high, So don't you you feel my thigh. Marie Muldaur covered it. Women drinking.
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02 Oct 01 - 03:27 AM (#563188) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: The_one_and_only_Dai Terry Wogan had a hit with a highly Bowdlerised version of the Floral Dance. |
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02 Oct 01 - 05:11 PM (#563676) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: pattyClink "Never Wed an Old Man" is in the DT, not about drink but fun, female, and suitable for rowdy drinking. |
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02 Oct 01 - 06:14 PM (#563731) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Joe_F "Fathom the Bowl" ends with a story to which, I have always thought, there must be another side: My husband never tires of lying around. He drinks like a fish, and he sings like a hound. He eats like a pig and makes love like a troll, And the day he drops dead, I will fathom the bowl. There is also that lovely satire on male sexual vanity (or at least so I read it) that (in one of its many versions) begins: FOUR OLD WHORES OF LIVERPOOL Were drinking sherry wine, And one said to the other: "Yours is no bigger than mine." |
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17 Sep 03 - 02:07 AM (#1020492) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: The Fooles Troupe Any current info on the delightful Liverpool song above? :-) Robin |
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17 Sep 03 - 08:42 AM (#1020672) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: GUEST They are usually from Winnipeg, not Liverpool |
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17 Sep 03 - 12:22 PM (#1020827) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: CelesteF Sue West of Maine wrote a really nice song called "DRINK TO THE LADDIES." It's on DigiTrad. There's another drinking song a friend of mine swears is a woman's song; I think because he learned it without the verse that makes it clearly a man's song. I sing it without that verse and it works great. It's called "The Midnight Glass." A version of it is on DT as "JOKE AND PUSH ABOUT THE PITCHER," which is the last phrase of the chorus ( I learned it as 'sing and push about the pitcher'). I'm glad you started this thread, 'cause I like to sing bawdy/drinking songs too. ;-) |
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17 Sep 03 - 07:20 PM (#1021082) Subject: Lyr Add: FOUR OLD WHORES OF LIVERPOOL From: Joe_F There are of course many versions, and I suppose any three-syllable place name will do. (There is, of course, one Winnepeg whore who has an entire song about her.) The one I like is: Four old whores of Liverpool Were drinking sherry wine, And one said to the other, "Yours is no bigger than mine." "You're a liar," said the second one, "For mine's as big as the sea. The ships sail in and the ships sail out And never bother me." "You're a liar," said the third one, "For mine's as big as the air. The ships sail in and the ships sail out And never tickle a hair." "You're a liar," said the fourth one, "For mine's as big as the moon. The ships sail in at the first of the year And never come out till June." "You're all liars," said the first one, "For mine's the biggest of all. The ships sail in at the first of the year And never come out at all." Nice surrealism -- and, if you are a Freudian, a hint of castration anxiety too. |
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17 Sep 03 - 07:40 PM (#1021092) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Ned Ludd There's a Burns song MY WIFE'S A WANTON WEE THING' With the great line 'She selt her coat an' she drank it' |
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01 Dec 03 - 11:51 AM (#1063748) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: CharlieA Liz, Hangover songs would be great. Sorry for the late reply! Cxxx |
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01 Dec 03 - 12:21 PM (#1063761) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: womens drinking songs From: Madame P At Work There's the shanty "hurrah for Toy Boys" I'll post the words when I get home. TTFN Lady P. |
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01 Dec 03 - 12:52 PM (#1063789) Subject: Lyr Add: SHE'S MORE TO BE PITIED (Stanley Brothers From: BTMP "She's More to be Pitied" by the Stanley Brothers, while being a drinking song about women, does not cast them in a particularly good light: She's there at the bar every evening, face powdered and cheeks painted red. Her beauty has faded too early, Brought on by the fast life she's led. Chorus: She's more to be pitied than scolded, She needs to be loved, not despised. Too much beer and wine, too many good times. The lure of the honkytonk wrecked her young life. She once was the belle of the ballroom. She'd a-made some man a sweet wife. But too many parties, the wrong kind of crowd Ruined her happy young life. Chorus |
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28 Jul 08 - 08:29 PM (#2399945) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: GUEST,MaidofValahalla I know this is an old thread, but if you're still interested, "Beermaids of Valhalla" was recorded by The Pilots of Tiger Bay, aka Andrea Aldrich and Kathy McKenzie on their CD Tiger by the Tail. The Duo is no longer together, but there are still a few CDs and Tapes running around. I believe Kathy actually wrote the song. She is from the greater Seattle area, and can often be found a the Pacific Northwest Highland Games, held in July in Enumclaw, Washington. |
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29 Jul 08 - 07:02 AM (#2400172) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: gnomad One song about a drunken woman, not exactly the brief I know, but a cracking song for all that, is Wor Nanny's a Mazer, by Tommy Armstrong. Click 'ere I can imagine some catters trying to make sense of it, and as written it looks terrible, but if you simply read it out loud it makes much better sense. The accents (dialects?) of NE England can be pretty impenetrable at times, but the song makes a good fist of representing them. |
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24 Sep 08 - 12:21 AM (#2448679) Subject: Lyr Add: BEER MAIDS OF VALHALLA (Kathi McKenzie) From: GUEST,celticcowgirl Yep, Beer Maids of Valhalla was written by me, Kathi McKenzie. Here's the lyrics: Words and music by Kathi McKenzie BEER MAIDS OF VALHALLA Oh you Grim Reaper don't come for me I'm off to the heavens with fine company To a great hall with timbers that sparkle and shine With endless entertainment, good food, beer and wine And when we come back, we'll be high as can be With a whole herd of Vikings, well how can that be? 'Cause we are the Valkyries, goddess of the skies And if you wanna be my boyfriend, then you've gotta die With swords held high, you can hear us cry Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla, yaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa To be a Beer Maid in Valhalla, ah that would be swell Lots of eating, lots of drinking, beats the pants off of hell All those warriors with muscles that ripple when they drink Great kings and princes, they don't have to think We don't choose for valor like you have been told We just choose the cute ones that have lots of gold With swords held high, you can hear us cry Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla, yaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa We never get tired, we play and we drink We drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink Sometimes we wrestle and rip off our clothes I pull on your hair and you bloody my nose We play games like stickball and run through the halls We knock people over and get kicked in the.... Broken arms broken shoulders broken legs broken heads Broken ears broken toes, but it doesn't matter, we're dead............ With swords held high, you can hear us cry Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla, yaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa My best guy is Thor and he's really big. He drinks like a fish and he eats like a pig. When he belches the timbers all tremble and shake. And when he has gas, it's like an earthquake. With swords held high, you can hear us cry Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla, yaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa So don't tell me about heaven or the afterlife No harpist on the clouds no saviors' wife Won't bow down to Buddha, Vishnu or Allah I've got my salvation; I'm a beer maid in Valhalla With swords held high, you can hear us cry Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla Beer Maids of Valhalla, yaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa |
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13 Aug 10 - 07:49 PM (#2964730) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: GUEST,kendall Joe, here's another verse for 3 old whores. You'r a liar said the first again I'd blush to be so small, Many's the fleet that sailed right in and never came out at all So take up the sheets me hearties Water the decks with brine Bend to the oars you lousy whores None is bigger than mine. |
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14 Aug 10 - 01:39 AM (#2964884) Subject: Lyr Add: Let Her Sleep Under The Bar From: Genie DK the name of this, but I heard it often in college and it's probably in the DT. 'Twas a cold winter evening, the guests were all leaving, O'Leary was closing the bar, When he turned and he said to the lady in red, "Get out! You can't stay any more." She shed a sad tear in her bucket of beer As she thought of the cold night ahead, When a gentleman dapper stepped out of the men's room* And these were the words that he said: "Her mother never told her the things a young girl should know About the ways of college men, and how they come and go (mostly go**). Now age has taken her beauty and sin has left its sad scar, So remember your mothers and sisters, boys, And let her sleep under the bar." *Original lyric: "crapper" ** ( or "mostly come") |
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14 Aug 10 - 06:03 AM (#2964949) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: scowie Does the fabulous "Star 'o the Bar" fit the bill? Great song, but others will know about it than me. |
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14 Aug 10 - 06:05 AM (#2964952) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: scowie Sorry! last bit should have said "but others will know MORE about it than me" I must take more water with it! |
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14 Aug 10 - 06:48 AM (#2964969) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: Haruo The song Genie posted I sing in the following only slightly different version. I'm pretty sure it was in the 1954 ed. of Song Fest, which would be where I learned it originally, but I don't have a copy at hand to check whether it's closer to me or Genie:
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10 Aug 12 - 02:15 PM (#3388421) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: the lemonade lady Kitty: have you got the lyrics to the poor lonely widow? Can you send them to me, I'd be everso grateful. Can't seem to find the on google.xx I can dance, I can sing, I'm as good now as ever, fond of me whiskey and good in a row, just 45 both witty and clever, I wonder if anyone will marry me now |
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11 Jun 16 - 11:21 PM (#3794970) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: Janie I don't think my inquiry warrants a new thread so will ask here. Trying to definitely determine who wrote "She's More to be Pitied than Scolded." Is it a Stanley Brother's original or earlier than that? |
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12 Jun 16 - 02:20 AM (#3794978) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: MGM·Lion Can't see that Cotton Mill Girls, apart from some singers including the floating "Pickle bones in alcohol" verse [which I don't -- see my youtube channel]*, is a drinking song -- more a distinguished member of the 'sing to cheer self up coz the job is such a bummer' genre of work song, surely? ≈M≈ * http://www.youtube.com/user/mgmyer |
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12 Jun 16 - 03:09 AM (#3794983) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: Jim Carroll Can't lay hands on it, but there's a magnificent two-fingers-to-life song I've heard sung by Rosie Stewart entitled We're Three Drunken Whores (and we don't wear no drawers) Jim Carroll |
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12 Jun 16 - 03:36 AM (#3794986) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: BobL You might also consider George Formby's "Fanlight Fanny", with or without Clinton Ford's (authorized) additions. |
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12 Jun 16 - 05:05 AM (#3794999) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: Helen I Spent My Last $10 (On Birth Control and Beer performed by Two Nice Girls. I don't know why I know about this song, unless the Oz youth national radio station, Triple-J, used to play it. Helen |
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12 Jun 16 - 05:06 AM (#3795000) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: GUEST,bigJ Jim, Rosie's song is "A Bunch of Damned Whores" written by the Austraian Ted Egan. |
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12 Jun 16 - 05:34 AM (#3795004) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: Jim Carroll Thanks Big Jim - I look forward to being re-united with it, so to speak! Jim Carroll Yr 'tis |
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12 Jun 16 - 08:08 AM (#3795040) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: Lighter I haven't compared the lyrics, but it sounds like "...Scolded" is an adaptation or rewrite of William B. Gray's once well-known "She is More to Be Pitied than Censured" (1898). To "censure" means to express stern disapproval of (someone). A much more appropriate word in the song than "scold." |
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12 Jun 16 - 06:04 PM (#3795145) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: Janie Thanks, Lighter. I'll follow up on that. I had already found and listened to one recording of the Gray's song, but couldn't decide if they were related. Will listen to more recordings and arrangements. |
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12 Jun 16 - 07:08 PM (#3795161) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: GeoffLawes Sheila Stewart - Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk on YouTube |
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13 Jun 16 - 08:27 AM (#3795279) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: mkebenn From American country: "Little Wiskey Girl" and "Tequila Makes Her Cloths Fall Off" Mike |
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13 Jun 16 - 08:28 AM (#3795280) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs From: mkebenn Also "All Tore UP" M |