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Thread #44626   Message #657103
Posted By: AR282
24-Feb-02 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: Bawdy songs
Subject: RE: Bawdy song
"The Art of the Bawdy Song" is great. Beautiful cover. Nothing obscene about it--just a very nice oil painting. Typical classical music CD except it has a parental advisory sticker in the corner. Talk about incongruous! To see this sticker on a classical CD made me laugh and I knew I had to buy it.

Most of the songs on it are a bit more restrained than the ones in my initial post but quite amusing. Here's one called "My Man John"

My Man John had a thing that was long.
My Maid Mary had a thing that was hairy.
My Man John put his thing that was Long,
into my maid Mary's thing that was Hairy.
My maid Mary then stir'd it about,
till with stirring and stirring at length it came out,
but then my Man John thrust it in once again,
and knock'd it most stoutly to make it remain;
but John with much knocking so widen'd the hole,
that his long thing slip'd out still in spight of his soul,
'till weary'd and vex'd and with knocking grown sore,
cry'd, "a Pox take the Hole for I'll knock it no more!"

The more restrained ones are generally more amusing but the explicit ones are necessary and inevitable.