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Thread #9589 Message #62462
Posted By: MAG (inactive)
11-Mar-99 - 03:08 PM
Thread Name: Origins: riddle song (I Gave My Love a Cherry)
Subject: riddle song
The Data Base has the classic (and to me boring) riddle song in it -- no flames please; I just think it's boring -- and it mentions an earlier version in a 15th century manuscript.
I brought this song up on another list I belong to, as my old friend T.C. in Chicago had what he claimed was an ur-verse of the riddle answers which actually had the song making sense; namely:
A lassie has a cherry without no stone
A laddie has a cock without no bone
dee dumm dee dum dee dee dee (sex or marriage; take your pick)
A baby nine months young, has no cryin'.
Does this make sense to people? that the answer to the riddle is actually woman-man-sex-baby? and we got the bowdlerized version as impressionable youth? Is this the mss version referred to in the DB?
or did everybody else in the world justknow this but me? Mary Ann
^^