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BS: Erotic folk music,

17 May 03 - 01:45 PM (#954438)
Subject: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: wilco

Are people who start, read, or post to a thread entitled "erotic folk music" necessarily reprobates?


17 May 03 - 01:49 PM (#954443)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: John MacKenzie

Nope only those who contribute to them, especially when they use the nom de plume of GUEST......Giok


17 May 03 - 02:23 PM (#954468)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: Dead Horse

Include those who call themselves Jock, and cant even spell it right!!


17 May 03 - 04:37 PM (#954525)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: GUEST

Just as I thought.... there is none.


17 May 03 - 04:41 PM (#954527)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: GUEST,Cluin

Whoops! Where'd my cookie go? That was me above.

Maybe we should write one.

Oooooooooooooooooooo.... luv ta folk ya, baby
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... luv ta folk ya, baby


17 May 03 - 04:51 PM (#954533)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: GUEST,Mrs. Grundy

nasty, all of them! Where has decency gone? I am ashamed at the very idea!

Hummmpf!


17 May 03 - 05:35 PM (#954540)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: GUEST,JestCarresst

Buncha folkin purr-verse! Attractin all them lurker-jerkers ...


17 May 03 - 05:56 PM (#954548)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: Amos

Oh, go Jock off, why doncha....

While we are on the subject, does anyone know the lyrics to a highly suggestive Elizabethan ballad which recounts the adventures of a cockroach (Hillacock, yclept) slowly climbing a lady's leg?

"Hillacock came to my lady's thigh
And there the rascal began to spie.
Had he an eye? Aye, marry, had he!
And did he spie? Aye, marry did he...."


is almost all I remember of it. Love to get it back.


A


17 May 03 - 06:33 PM (#954576)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: harvey andrews

well, I once was a member of a trio.


17 May 03 - 06:51 PM (#954586)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: *daylia*

Don't know the ballad, Amos -- but the very idea brings on the goosebumps! Especially after I read this bit of trivia ...

"Licking the Envelope

A woman licked an envelope in a local post office and cut her tongue. After several days the place where she'd been cut began to swell. She started to get nervous and went to see a doctor. The doctor cut open the swelled area and a cockroach climbed out. There had been eggs on the envelope she had licked! -From Margaret
"

Now just imagine what might happen if Hillacock set up housekeeping in her ... um .... ahem!

never mind


17 May 03 - 06:59 PM (#954589)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: Amos

Bet you 2 bucks it is fictitious, daylia, but just as horrible for all that!

A


17 May 03 - 07:32 PM (#954607)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: GUEST

gee that sounds familiar, daylia....

roach story, snopes

really wish folks would look things up before posting them as FACT...not hard...


17 May 03 - 07:52 PM (#954617)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: *daylia*

gotta be hard to be ... oh, be a good GUEST!    ;)

(Did I forget the ;) before? -- sorry!)

But that story about Taco Bell just brings on a hankerin for fast food, don't it?   ;>)   Thanks!

daylia


18 May 03 - 10:06 AM (#954802)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: Sooz

Oops - thought it said erratic. (More suitable for my age group!)


18 May 03 - 11:14 AM (#954830)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: John MacKenzie

Menage a trois Harvey? Or should it be men age at Roy's??
Slainthe.....Giok
Who only spells it that way 'cos someone else got in first with the DH spelling, anyway who's to say he's right, he never was before ;¬]


18 May 03 - 05:57 PM (#955049)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: The O'Meara

Us reprobates have started an anti-defamation league, and you will be hearing from our lawyer!

O'Meara


18 May 03 - 05:59 PM (#955051)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: The O'Meara

Um..what exactly is a reprobate anyway?

O'Meara


18 May 03 - 08:18 PM (#955114)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: Amos

reprobate


NOUN:        1. A morally unprincipled person. 2. One who is predestined to damnation.
ADJECTIVE:        1. Morally unprincipled; shameless. 2. Rejected by God and without hope of salvation.
TRANSITIVE VERB:        Inflected forms: rep·ro·bat·ed, rep·ro·bat·ing, rep·ro·bates
1. To disapprove of; condemn. 2. To abandon to eternal damnation. Used of God.
ETYMOLOGY:        From Middle English, condemned, from Late Latin reprobtus, past participle of reprobre, to reprove : Latin re-, opposite; see re– + Latin probre, to approve; see prove.


18 May 03 - 08:31 PM (#955116)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: Deckman

Thanks Amos ... I kinda like that! Bob


18 May 03 - 10:51 PM (#955180)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: Metchosin

Gee Amos, maybe I can find it in my copy of An Anthology of Restoration Erotic Poetry. It may be the one after An Elegy on the Burning of a Hogshead of Dildos. (English and French trade wars ya know, freedom fries pale by comparison....)

As a reprobate of the highest order, the first song that popped into my mind was The Cuckoos Nest.

"Oh I like a gal who can wiggle and can twist.........."


18 May 03 - 11:19 PM (#955192)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk muisc,
From: Joe Offer

Now, if you go to our Digital Tradition Keywords Search (in QuickLinks), you can do a search for "bawdy" and find lots of "bawdy" songs. Now, my question is, Is bawdy erotic?
I don't think so.
Erotic is Loreena McKennitt singing "She Moved Through the Fair" - but it isn't bawdy.
-Joe Offer-


19 May 03 - 12:01 AM (#955202)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Amos

Joe:

Does your fair and esteemed wife know how you feel?? Maybe she'll put it on the player as background music...

But I concur that bawdy is not erotic, and its a pity there's no "erotic" tab in the DT! :>) And there are no words to Bolero anyway....


A


19 May 03 - 02:50 AM (#955239)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Wilfried Schaum

Daylia - this kind of stories can be found all over the world. The German professor Wilhelm Brednich (former custos of the German Folk Song Archive) has coined them Modern Myths or stories a good friend heard from a good friend. He edited three collections until now.

Amos - Does your A-key work only at random? The verb is reprobare.

Wilfried


19 May 03 - 04:34 AM (#955262)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: GUEST,noddy

erotic folk songs are nothing new.

"There is no such thing as a dirty book its just the way you read it"
Alex Harvey.

Then of course there are many Burns Poems such as one on the latest Eddie Reader Cd in which the young "lady" in the song asks the gentleman to come into the barn and try her.


19 May 03 - 09:52 AM (#955417)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: *daylia*

Wilfrid, the site where I found the story "Licking the Envelope" included other incredulous tales, like one about a girl who (supposedly) had a baby octopus removed from her swelling belly after swallowing some eggs while swimming in the ocean. I included the story above as a JOKE, because I thought it lent an, um, interesting twist to Amos' Elizabethan ballad about Hillacock the cockroach. HA!

daylia


19 May 03 - 01:14 PM (#955547)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: John MacKenzie

I'm yours bawdy and soul [sole?]
Giok


19 May 03 - 02:44 PM (#955599)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: GUEST

Sounds like a foot fetish to me.

Hmmm, that iambic pentameter makes me so hot!


19 May 03 - 07:07 PM (#955772)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Joe_F

Wind, and sky,
And sounding surf,
And you and I
And soixante-neuf.


19 May 03 - 08:25 PM (#955817)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: GUEST,Q

Hillacock must have been an ancestor of archie.

expression is the need of my soul
i was once a vers libre bard
but I died and my soul went into the body of a cockroach
it has given me a new outlook upon life
i see things from the under side now

apologies to archie mehitabel and don marquis


19 May 03 - 08:56 PM (#955826)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Mr Happy

here's some erotic folkie pics!

http://www.johnnylondon.co.uk/31950/index.html


20 May 03 - 01:44 AM (#955950)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Wilfried Schaum

Daylia - as joke you intended it, and as a joke it was understood.

Joe F - ... And soixante-neuf Could it be this abominable position LIX?

Wilfried


20 May 03 - 03:32 AM (#955972)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Metchosin

I think you're right Joe, bawdy yes, but erotic folk music.....Erotic folk music? Isn't that sort of an oxymoron?

And come on people, ya gotta be pretty perverse to find a cockroach erotic.

Sting's Fields of Gold or Leonard Cohen's Closing Time, maybe, but they're rather debatable as far as being classified as Folk.


20 May 03 - 07:35 AM (#956058)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Dave Bryant

What about erotic Morris Dancing. A certain side used to dance on the "Fun Day" of a local naturist (nudist) club. The first year they danced they wore full kit, but by a couple of years later I seem to remember they wore only hats, bell pads, plus an extra bell on a piece of elastic around their "middle legs". Of course a suitable dance would have been "Tool Setting".


20 May 03 - 11:41 AM (#956217)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Metchosin

oh jeez, the mind boggles, I can think of things a lot more erotic than a bunch of nude men jumping up and down waving handkerchiefs and sticks.*BG*


20 May 03 - 11:46 AM (#956220)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Amos

Exotic, yes, erotic, doubtful -- buncha flapdoodle! Boing, boing, boing!! LOL!!!


A


20 May 03 - 01:01 PM (#956277)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: GUEST,Ron Olesko

Of course there is Ed McCurdy who recorded a series of albums "When Dalliance is in Flower" plus another series called "Lyrica Erotica". These are the songs that the Francis Child's of the world did not want us to discover!   

I often wonder how many great songs were never saved because the collectors used their own self-censoring of the material.

By the way, Ed used to correct anyone who called his songs "bawdy". "Oscar Brand sings bawdy songs" Ed told me, "I sing erotic ballads". He was 100% correct, there is a big difference.


20 May 03 - 01:23 PM (#956288)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Kim C

I think LIX is only 59... wouldn't soixante-neuf be LXIX?

Anyhow... there are some good collections out there. I particularly like "The Two Magicians," and any number of night visiting songs. The idea of the man sneaking in through the window in the middle of the night is just so dashingly romantic!


20 May 03 - 01:26 PM (#956292)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: GUEST,Ron Olesko

Kim - it isn't that romantic.   I almost killed myself with the damn ladder!


20 May 03 - 01:27 PM (#956293)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Amos

Kim, what is 59?

A


20 May 03 - 03:06 PM (#956379)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: John MacKenzie

A year younger than me....Giok


20 May 03 - 03:07 PM (#956380)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: GUEST

LIX is 59


20 May 03 - 04:49 PM (#956444)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Kim C

I guess 59 is ten minutes shorter. :-)


20 May 03 - 05:25 PM (#956470)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Bill D

" Hmmm, that iambic pentameter makes me so hot!"

A horny young poet from Lameter,
Had an organ of tremendous diameter.
But it wasn't the size
That brought tears to girls eyes-
'Twas the rhythm, iambic pentameter.

"I wandered lonely as a cloud"....ooohhhh!


20 May 03 - 05:44 PM (#956481)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Amos

It ain't what you do with what you got, it's how you time what you do with what you got? Don't mean a thing if it ain't....oh, never mind!!!


:>)


A


21 May 03 - 03:32 AM (#956744)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Wilfried Schaum

Kim - caught me, I just forgot an X. Your guess was right, the correct figure is LXIX.
But without this error we would have missed your witty answer about the ten minutes ...

Wilfried


21 May 03 - 05:26 AM (#956776)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Jeanie

Kim C - I'm glad I'm not alone on this one ! "The Two Magicians" is one of my all time favourite songs. The very thought of being chased by the husky, dusky, musty, fusky coal black smith....oooooh......

(I know she also calls him "nasty" as well as husky etc. etc., but I'm sure she's only teasing him). Oooooh......


- jeanie


21 May 03 - 03:13 PM (#957141)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Cluin

But the real question is what is he going to do with her maidenhead once he's gained it?


21 May 03 - 05:37 PM (#957248)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Herga Kitty

Gather her up by the middle so small, and throw her into the bed. Turn her heels where her head should be, and give her back her maidenhead.


21 May 03 - 06:42 PM (#957293)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Desdemona

Or---most disturbing of all----morris lap dancing!

(blame my husband!)


22 May 03 - 04:46 AM (#957508)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Dave Bryant

I could think of several ladies morris side members who I would find very erotic. Perhaps a certain Kentish group could issue a new badge - "I've been lap danced by a Loose Woman".


22 May 03 - 05:11 PM (#957884)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Charley Noble

And an erotic limerick for the recently widowed:

There was a young widow named Brice,
Who kept her dead husband on ice;
She said, "T'was hard when I lost him,
I'll never defrost him;
It's rather cold comfort but nice."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble


22 May 03 - 05:22 PM (#957889)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: John MacKenzie

And then there's the old blues song...
If you see Kay
before I do.
It's phonetics you know. ;¬]>


23 May 03 - 04:54 PM (#958392)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Kim C

Hee hee Wilfried! ;-)

For some reason it's Mister that brings home the bawdy music. Must be a guy thing.


26 May 03 - 11:51 AM (#959314)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Art Thieme

REFRESH !!!

i like to watch


26 May 03 - 02:35 PM (#959379)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: John MacKenzie

Rolex Art???


27 May 03 - 12:07 AM (#959569)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Cluin

Art is Chance.


(the Gardener)


27 May 03 - 08:14 AM (#959669)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Charley Noble

But which watch is which?

Charley Noble


27 May 03 - 10:48 AM (#959767)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: John MacKenzie

Timex and tide wait for no man. No sorry just winding you up!!
Giok


27 May 03 - 11:52 AM (#959805)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: The O'Meara

The immortal and superbly bawdy Scottish tune "The Gatherin' o' the Clan." It's very rank, but has such class..

O'Meara


28 May 03 - 09:29 AM (#960446)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Sam L

One wouldn't usually think of appallachian clogging as erotic, but when the woman in the duo Zoey Speaks does it, it is. Not that it's trying to be erotic, but it brings to mind every kind of association of fun.

   I think the directness, the frankness of folk music is an erotic quality, and it's very naked music, in a sense.


28 May 03 - 09:33 AM (#960450)
Subject: RE: BS: Erotic folk music,
From: Kim C

Fred, I think you may have a valid point there.