The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127487   Message #4223169
Posted By: Lighter
25-May-25 - 09:27 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Pretty Polly (Knife in the Window)
Subject: RE: Origins: Pretty Polly (Knife in the Window)
"Bang those bushes" and "pluck some" might have seemed to risque for some.

Up thread I posted stanzas from Francis O'Neill in which the young men "strip off" to swim after. That might have been a little too graphic for some singers.

Of course, there may have been many unrecorded possibilities.