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Thread #38316   Message #538022
Posted By: Wolfgang
30-Aug-01 - 07:53 AM
Thread Name: Litotes in song
Subject: RE: Litotes in song
Here are a few from the DT:

You have to pluck them fresh, if they're fresh it's not unpleasant, (pheasant plucker)
And in no uncertain way she told him where to get off (DRINKING WITH ROSIE)
Don't pay no union dues (King of the road), but that's not really what you mean
of the last type there are more I guess as in 'London girls don't wear no panty-hose' (London Derriere)
here's a rare triple: There ain't no unemployment (Farina's MAINLINE PROSPERITY BLUES)
Where no unkind words are spoken (Shouting in the air)
We don't like the scroungers, the no-goods (Nice people like us)

It is easy to find dozens by a websearch in modern no-folk lyrics. I guess they are getting rarer by oral way of preservation.

Wolfgang