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Thread #68922   Message #1325606
Posted By: Bat Goddess
13-Nov-04 - 09:45 AM
Thread Name: ballads/tunes about ladies of the night
Subject: RE: ballads/tunes about ladies of the night
Late again, late again.

How about "Dicey Riley"? Not the drinking one, the prostitute one. (Which I learned from Debbie McClatchy and she said, I think, she learned from Dominic Behan.)

"One woman put them all to shame,
Only one was worthy of the name,
And the name of the same is Dicey Riley."
. . .

"The balance paid, their looks all fade,
Out of all that brave brigade,
Ah the heart of the raul is Dicey Riley."

I, too, like to think Aunt Clara was just lucky in love . . .

Linn