Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Name Is Yon Yonson - that's all???
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 05:55 PM

The song must have been widespread because I learned it in New Mexico-Colorado in the 1935 period.
Two songs are united in the extended version given by Barbara with the "Did but I don't anymore" line.

A very old song with a non-scandahoovian origin. See Randolph and Legman, "Roll Me in Your Arms," # 179, pp. 571ff.

Lyr. Add:
MY NAME IS JIM TAYLOR

My name is Joe Taylor, my prick is a whaler,
My ballyx weigh ninety-four pounds.
I'll seize old Susanner, I'll fuck her, God damn her,
I'll pin her old ass to the ground!

Variants Jim, Joe, Bill Baker, gals named Anna (from Butte, Montana, she loves my banana), and etc.

Oh, her love is a sailor, his name is Jim Taylor,
He's gone in a whaler all out on the sea.
Oh, how he loves her, whenever he grabs her,
And then he sits down to drink tea.

(I remember this from childhood- something mis-remembered in the last line)

 

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