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Thread #172461   Message #4174185
Posted By: Jack Horntip
08-Jun-23 - 08:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Bye-Bye Cherry / Bye Bye Boyfriend
Subject: Lyr Add: Bye Bye Boyfriend / Bye-Bye Cherry
BYE-BYE BOY FRIEND
(Nello Deschamps)

Pack up all my underwear
I don't care, anywhere.
Bye-bye boy friend.
He taught me how to dance and sing,
He taught me how to shake his thing.
Bye-bye boy friend.
He took me to his cottage in the wildwood,
There he took advantage of my childhood.
He went once, and I went twic
Holy jumping Jesus Christ!
Bye-bye boy friend.

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.

I did a search in Mudcat using google search and couldn't find this text.
I will post the "Bye Bye Cherry" text from the rugby
songs thread.


See the Larson MS online here:

https://archive.org/details/1933-1972jameskennethlarson/page/n37/mode/1up