Re "bawdy" Matty Groves.

I once saw a version (from New York State, I believe) that the collector called a "bawdy" version because - despite being unremarkable in every other way - the singer had somehow snuck the word "screwed" into the last stanza.

That may not be the level of "bawdry" that people on this thread are thinking of, however.

Also, *many* versions of "Matty Groves" would have seemed "bawdy" in the nineteenth century (and later) simply because they feature adultery and the image of Matty and Darnell's wife in bed together, with Matty, at least, "naked."

Times change.