The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167340   Message #4039023
Posted By: Jim Carroll
11-Mar-20 - 11:26 AM
Thread Name: Mediation and its definition in folk music
Subject: RE: Mediation and its definition in folk music
This is an example of a song recorded originally by R J Moeran who sent it to an early Folk Song Journal (singer unidentified)
Only the tune was published with a note that the words were too indecent to include
In the prtaining circumstances what should have happened to the song?
Jim Carroll

Girl of Lowestoft or The Hole in the Wall sung by Harry Cox, circa 1950 (rec by Alan Lomax)
If you go To Lowestoft
And ask for the Hole in the Wall
There you’ll find Polly Armstrong
She ain’t got a hole at all

She was a rum one, she was a funny one,
She was a rum one O

At last I found her hole
‘Twas underneath her frock
If you gave me all the world I coldn’t find my cock
She was a rum one etc

At las I found my cock,
My cock was in her hand
And if you gave me all the world
I couldn’t get him to stand
She was….

At last I got him up,
As stiff as a wooden pin
If you gave me all the world
I couldn’t get him in
She was….

At last I got him in
And wriggled him about
If you gave me all the world
I couldn’t get him out
She was….

At last I got him out, he was so stiff and sore,
If you gave me all the world   
I’ll never touch another whore
She was

Alternative first verse
If you go to Lowestoft
Sand ask fro the Rising Sun
It's there you’ll find two old whores
And my old woman is one