The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80625   Message #4178363
Posted By: and e
03-Aug-23 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: 'Ruptured Cowboy' Traditional Bawdy Song
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Ruptured Cowboy' Traditional Bawdy Song
My name is Pancho Villa
I got my gonorrhea.
I got from Maria
She gave it to me free-a
And now I can not pee-a.
Yaha! Syph too!


Transcribed from the recording below of Gregory Hildebrand. Recorded December 7, 2004

Listen here: https://archive.org/download/jack_horntip_collection_field_recordings/0552%20My%20Name%20Is%20Pancho%20Villa%2C%20I%20Got%20The%20Gonorrhea%20%5BPoncho%20Via%2C%20Parody%20Of%20El%20Rancho%20Grande%5D.mp3


Another recording of Greg Hildebrand singing "My Name is Pancho Villa" dated June 6, 2006 is in the Rob Willis Folklore Collection in the Oral History and Folklore Collection of the National Library of Australia. ORAL TRC 5484/75/1.