"Disobliging" was the word Bert Lloyd would use to describe songs with amorous content of a sort which might offend the prim or prudish -- much of his, or any folksinger's, repertoire, in fact!

Was this usage peculiar to him, or did he get it from any traditional informant, or from any other source? I remember a story told by the early collector Priscilla Wyatt-Edgell, of the man reluctant to sing her a certain song, as it was, in his words, too "outway rude" for a lady's ears. But I can't remember anyone except Bert using "disobliging" as euphemistic descriptor for such songs. Has anyone come across it in anyone else's usage apart from Bert's, or was it an expression peculiar to himself? — Or, possibly, a term in use dialectally in his native Suffolk?

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