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Thread #66721   Message #1110005
Posted By: GUEST,ClaireBear
05-Feb-04 - 11:36 AM
Thread Name: Nice Songs Made Naughty
Subject: Lyr Add: THE LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ (Wade Hemsworth)
I swiped a technique from one of the cowboy poets -- sorry, I heard him about 20 years ago and I've forgotten his name, but I bet someone else will remember; he was opening for Riders in the Sky at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and he was wonderful!

Anyway, all he did was simple LEAVE OUT words (technically I think he hummed) to make the song seem naughty. He did a three-verse song about a woman, and by the time he got to the third verse it was nothing but humming.

This is not only hilarious, it's actually quite classy since you don't have to say anything raunchy.

Here is that effect applied to Wade Hemsworth's sweet and lovely Log Driver's Waltz, for instance. The original words are in the DT; here's my version (**** = silence, which I find more effective than humming):

THE LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ
(Wade Hemsworth)

If you should ask any girl from the parish around
What pleases her most from her **** to her toes,
She'll say - I'm not sure that it's business of yours,
But I do like to ***** with a log driver.

Cho: For he goes birling down a-down the white water;
That's where the log driver learns to **** ********.
It's birling down, a-down the white water;
A log driver's ***** pleases girls completely.

When the drive's nearly over, I like to go down
To *** all the lads while they work on the river.
I know that come evening they'll be in the town
And we all want to ***** with a log driver.

To please both my parents I've had to give way
And ***** with the doctors and merchants and lawyers.
Their manners are fine but their **** are of clay
For there's none with the ***** of a log driver.

I've had my chances with all sorts of men
But none is so fine as my lad on the river.
So when the drive's over, if he asks me again,
I think I will ***** my log driver.