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Thread #59013 Message #937865
Posted By: Charley Noble
22-Apr-03 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Bawdy Bar Room Song
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy Bar Room Song
Abby-
I think we have a winner here in "Lehigh Valley." It feels right to me.
The Count was using these two lines as an example of what had been overlooked by his grandfather Sforza "Puffer" Vicarion, in the three volumes of bawdy ballads and ditties his grandfather had bequeathed to himself. Unfortunately, while the Count had been able to add many songs to the collection through his diligent research in libraries, pubs, and the armed forces in WW II, he was unable to nail this song.
Another fragment the Count claimed to have heard from a girl from the "Miss Brice School", "all golden she was and with a voice like a lark", had this lilting refrain:
Oh, how did Edith ever, Get so shitty round the titty?