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Thread #45811 Message #4174184
Posted By: Jack Horntip
08-Jun-23 - 08:02 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Miss Lucy Had a Steamboat
Subject: RE: Origin: Miss Lucy Had a Steamboat
DICKEY AND MURPHEY (Ben Edwards [informant])
Dickey and Murphey were playing in the ditch, When Dickey called Murphey a dirty son-of-a-b---- Bring all your children, and let them play with sticks Or when they grow oder, they'll play with their -----. Dickey and Murphey had a little doggie; They let her to a lady to keep her company; She led him and fed him, until one day on a hunt He played all around her petticoats and -----. Country lass a-sitting on the grass, A fence post fell over and ran a sliver up her --- Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies; And if I finish this, I hope I die And go to h--- Hello, Central, How's your brownie hair? And if you have no whiskey, I'll have to drink your beer.
From Songs and Ballads: Folk Material and Old Favorites, Collected by [James] Kenneth Larson in McCammon, Idaho. Undated [c1933], typescript. Tune not indicated. Dash expurgation in the original... so I'm not sure if it is a "teasing" song or used the "bad" words.