Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: masato sakurai
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 10:52 PM

There has been a related thread:

'Unprintable Songs'.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: MikeOQuinn
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 11:27 PM

MMario, you asked about a female-perspective version of the Two Magicians...

There's a group called 'The Ravens', who I don't think perform together anymore, who did a version of the song ending like this (I think)

Then the lady, she ran into the house, and she became a bed
Then he became a silk coverlet and over her he spread
Then the lady, she became a moth, and ate a little thread
And when he turned back to a man, he'd lost his little head (HA!)

I've not heard it in long enough that I'm not entirely sure if that's it, but something like that would work, no?

-J

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 08:13 AM

Thanks, Masato. I had forgotten which recent thread these titles came up in and the "unprintable" Mudcat search engine still will not fire up!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: Joe_F
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 07:33 PM

Speaking of female perspectives, there is, or was, a group in Boston called The Bawdy Ladies (Anne Goodwin, Anabel Graetz, Linda Lombardi), which used to perform a variety of stuff in odd venues, and which issued, in 1986, a tape called _The Bawdy Ladies' Book_, containing the following songs, all amusing & some seldom heard:

Three Drunken Maidens
Christmas Goose
Johnny Be Fair
Eppie Morrie
Sorry the Day
Wife's Lament
Home Dearie Home
Malurous Qu'o Uno Fenno
Maids When You're Young
Nine Times a Night
Isabel and the English Monuments
I Lay with an Old Man
Foolish, Incredibly Foolish
You Were Only Fucking While I Was Making Love
Kitchen Man
Man in the Moon

The last is a women's version of "Roll Your Leg Over".

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: Abby Sale
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 10:01 PM

Enjoy, Charley. You will find many, many happy surprises in there. Not just the texts...the unexpected settings.

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: masato sakurai
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 10:56 PM

I've found this book on the net and just ordered it.

Bawdy Ballads and Dirty Dities from Ontario and Newfoundland
by Goldstein (Edt).
Paperback
January, 2003
Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr; ISBN: 0889203849

~Masato

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: GUEST,Steve
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 12:03 AM

Where can I get "When Daliance was in Flower " Albums?

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: Nerd
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:15 AM

Masato,

You will find that that book is not yet available. I am in fact editing the manuscript, and it has not been through music editing or layout yet! It has been delayed several times, which I suppose is why it's already on their website as being available!

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 02:00 AM

Hi, Steve -
there were four LP's in Ed McCurdy's "Dalliance" Series (When Dalliance Was In Flower and Maidens Lost Their Heads), Volumes I, II, III, and Son of Dalliance. You can find a new Best of Dalliance (click) compilation at www.rhinohandmade.com. It's a limited edition, only 2,500 copies made. It's expensive, but it's a first-class production with 28 cuts. You can get it at Amazon ($25), but it's cheaper ($20) if you order it direct from Rhino. It's also available at Collectors' Choice, http://www.ccmusic.com/. While you're at it, you may want to pick up the Rhino Handmade albums from Jean Ritchie and Theo Bikel.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: GUEST,Rev. Vicar
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 07:12 PM

Dirty beasts, all of you.

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: GUEST,Jack-
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 06:20 AM

I am searching for the lyrics to a ballad 'Tiddly Winks', I was told that there were many versions......all I know of the ballad I am after goes like....

Tiddly winks old beam
Have you ever kissed a queen
Have you have seen a sailor
Eat a can of sardines
Said the Captain of the lugger
To another filthy bugger
Lets have another drink
Before the ship goes down

Any help will be appreciated........thank you....Jack

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: Fred (Beetle) Bailey
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 09:24 AM

Am I the only Mudcatter with a copy of "Count Palmiro Vicarion's Book of Bawdy Ballads"? It was printed in France (of course) in 1961 by The Olympia Press, 8 rue de Nesle, Paris 6 and smuggled into the bible-thumpers belt in the bottom of my brother's seabag after a North African (I think) tour of duty. (Can anyone imagine a more seminal gift for a barely adolescent guitar-banger?) The binding failed long ago and I may have lost a few pages but there's 65 listed in the table of contents -- only a few with a sparse melody score.

The Count's frontspiece:
"To those who have written, are writing, and who will write them, together with those who have the sensibility and courage to publish them, this collection is fondly dedicated. And may they drop dead who secretly read and publically burn them -- or else begin their real education."

It's an amazing collection of scatalogical and sexual humor that stands head and shoulders (so to speak) above the respected journeyman works of Mr. Silverman and Brand and others mentioned above.

Anyone know where I can get a fresh copy?

Failing that, I'll trade lyrics of any of the 65 for any others that I don't have -- or any such deal -- let's keep this Folk Heritage alive!

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 10:28 AM

Guest Jack: Search the Forum under "balls hang low" for plenty of versions.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: There are three kinds of economists: crackpots, hired liars, and John Kenneth Galbraith, who is an old man. :||

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: Tcrier
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 02:18 PM

Heard a Verse of Pheasant Plucker in a World Town Crier Competition Show in Shanklin Isle of Wight in 1991.

The Town Criers performing were doing a rendition of "I Am A Lumberjack"

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 02:24 PM

Try this site mate....http://www.armadillo.net/llewtrah/
Yours, Aye. Dave (known to sing a few of these the odd time or two)

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding 'bawdy ballads?'
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 17 - 12:15 PM

We wrote that song, mmario.1980 ny renfaire.
Sherry Nehmer