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Thread #20774   Message #218246
Posted By: Ely
26-Apr-00 - 10:34 AM
Thread Name: How many fallen women does it take? (songs)
Subject: RE: How many fallen women does it take?
Hazel Dickens' "TOMORROW'S ALREADY LOST"

Nanci Griffith's [LOOKING FOR THE TIME (WORKIN' GIRL)] one about "you say you're looking for the time, well I'm a working girl, you just wasted mine. And if you ain't got money, take it down the avenue, 'cause I ain't got the time for you."

"GIRL BEHIND THE BAR" ["West Side Tavern"] (probably trad.; I've got it on the Red Clay Ramblers & Fiddlin' Al McCandless record, and I think on Jay Ungar's _Catskill Mt. Goose Chase_)

Freakwater's "A SONG YOU COULD CRY FOR"

"PRETTY PEGGY": What will your mother think for to hear the guineas clink, and the soldiers all marching behind you?

"LITTLE SADIE"

I've always wondered about Norman Blake's "CHATTANOOGA SUGAR BABE"--the verse about "standing on the corner with your mouth in a pout". I'm assuming he means sulking, but it could be something else . . .