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Thread #151204   Message #3533271
Posted By: dick greenhaus
03-Jul-13 - 09:56 AM
Thread Name: Origins: 'The Bloody Great Wheel'
Subject: RE: Origins: 'The Bloody Great Wheel'
I strongly suspect that the "dirty" songs--the ones featuring "nasty language" and scataology and misogyny--are almost entirely Victorian and post-=Victorian in origin. Burns' "Merry Muses", for example were certainly bawdy and certainly explicitly sexual, but, generally speaking, a good time was had by all.