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Thread #81400 Message #1491879
Posted By: Abby Sale
24-May-05 - 08:43 AM
Thread Name: Songs about rough folk women
Subject: RE: rough folk women
Here's a woman clearly rough but she's a minor character in the song:
I was layin' round town in a house of ill fame, Laid up with a rough, tough hustlin' dame, When a hop-headed pimp with his nose full of coke Beat me outta that woman and left me stone broke.
"The Castration of the Strawberry Roan" Text A (Collected from Baxter Black)
Here's one roughish:
She was slick as oil on water, I didn't know what she was about A-singing, way, Niagara, Below Niagara Falls. 'Til I missed my watch and wallet, Then I popped her on the snout. A-singing, way, Niagara, Below Niagara Falls.
"The Buffalo Whore" (Below Niagara Falls)
Sweet Betsy is pretty rough but doesn't get punished. (I'm not sure what the question is, either. Or is it several questions.)
And a naughty woman who is quite punished for running away with a demon:
He strack the tapmast wi' his hand The foremast wi' his knee And he brake the gallant ship in twain And sank her in the sea.
"The Daemon Lover/House Carpenter" Child #243 (Note the two Child women cited at the top of this thread are congratulated, not punished for their roughness.)
And in real bawdry there are numerous women with surprisingly agile, gunshot-proof, nutcracker-strong, and etc. cunts. They gotta be considered fairly rough but are rarely punished for it. When they are, as in "The Great Wheel," the moral issue can be pretty questionable.