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Thread #168225 Message #4173167
Posted By: GUEST,Robert B. Waltz
25-May-23 - 09:20 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Chickens Are A-Crowin'
Subject: RE: Origins: Chickens Are A-Crowin'
There is good reason to think all of these are bowdlerized, as we'd expect with something that was collected by Cecil Sharp. The Jane Hicks Gentry version, while not explicit, does say specifically "I'll stay with the girls till morning" as the first line of a verse (much more obvious than in the Lomax version) offering as an excuse the fact that the man's legs were tired. Right.