The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155545   Message #3659881
Posted By: Jim Carroll
13-Sep-14 - 11:31 AM
Thread Name: 'Innocence' in amatory folksong
Subject: RE: 'Innocence' in amatory folksong
"I love it".
Me to - it's a celebration of sex rather than a lewd display of it.
The Foggy Dew always does it for me
"And once in a while she'll wink and smile,
And I'll think on the foggy dew, dew, dew"
Tony McCarthy made a few nice points on the subject in his introduction to 'Bawdy British Folk Songs in 1972
Jim Carroll