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Thread #174646 Message #4235025
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
27-Jan-26 - 03:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Gardener's Wife (?) (Bawdy)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Gardener's Wife (?) (Bawdy)
Steve Gardham wrote:
Hardly bawdy, chaps!
Well, what do you expect of a music hall song? :-p
The Ballad Index, at least, has only seven songs which I keyed as bawdy and with food references, and none of them about vegetables. I certainly wouldn't have thought of "Houses in Between" as a candidate, but I have no alternative to offer.