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Thread #174646   Message #4235034
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
27-Jan-26 - 07:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Gardener's Wife (?) (Bawdy)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Gardener's Wife (?) (Bawdy)
Jack Horntip wrote:

How about "The Marrow Song" ?

Maybe bawdy, but it's not in the TBI or the Roud Index, at least under that title, first line, or first line of chorus. :-) So I don't feel much blame for not knowing about it. :-)

To the original poster: Is there any possibility that the song you're thinking is a teasing song? (That is, one that seems to be leading up to an obvious rhyme and then veers off, such as "Sweet Violets": "There once was a farmer who took a young miss Back by the barn, and gave her a... lecture On horses and cows and eggs And told her that she had such beautiful... manners....) This might explain both bawdry and comestibles. :-)