Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)

Subject: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 04:23 PM

I've looked on the Internet too - I'm only missing one phrase, help please, Oh you experts!

My first trip up the Chippaway river
My first trip to Canadian shores
There I met a young Miss O'Flanagan
Commonly known as a Winnipeg whore (bis)

So says she to me "I think I know you
Let me sit upon your knee
How's about a little loving?
A dollar and a half is the usual fee" (bis)

I took her arm and she led me quickly
To the place she used for sleep
Dirty old room with a straw-filled mattress
Wasn't too clean but she sure was heap! (bis)

Oh, she was as slick as a (what?)
I didn't know what she was about
Till I missed my watch and my wallet
"Holy Moses" I called out! (bis)

Then up ran the whores, them sons of a bitches
Up to the tune of forty or more
I left my clothes, my shoes and my britches
And I went a-hightailing out of that door! (bis)

In Winnipeg I learned my lesson
I learned it good cause I learned it there
If you're gonna visit a Winnipeg whore, boys,
Better make sure that you visit her bare! (bis)

I like this version better than either in the Trad, but couldn't find in anywhere. We actually had it on a record (one of Oscar Brand's Bawdy Songs and Backroom Balladds series) so it ought to be out there somewhere - what WAS she as slick as?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 04:59 PM

Oops - she sure was "cheap," not "heap" - sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Lighter
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 06:42 PM

"As the slipery ellum" of course.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 08:02 PM

Yep...slippery ellum...

(Slippery Elm is a tree extract)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 09:12 PM

OK, thanks - -Puzzled

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 09:45 PM

"slick as a slippery ellum" was just a metaphor...*grin*...'slick' in the song meant sneaky and tricky...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:01 PM

Here's a fragment that my mother learned from a retired Canadian lumberjack by the name of Aubrey Fullerton back in 1940 who attended one of their song parties in Maine:

I went down the Winnepeg River;
Must have been three months or more;
There I met old Nancy Finnegan,
Commonly known as the Winnepeg Whore.

Threw down six bits on the table;
Swore "By Christ, I ain't got more!"
Tore up nineteen yards of calico,
Putting the boots to the Winnepeg Whore.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Lighter
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 07:37 PM

Charley's version is probbly closer than Oscar's to the "old-time standard."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Sep 07 - 10:17 PM

Lighter-

So were my parents' song parties. I remember one of the family friends still chuckling 40 years later about my father climbing out the sendond floor window onto the kitchen roof, waving a whisky bottle at his friends gathered below. My father?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: GUEST,Eugene
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 01:00 PM

Better make sure that you visit her bare!
(if she has one)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 02:03 PM

that line is in the lyrics posted in the opening post. "bear" would have little meaning in the song.

Bill D., local pedant and curmudgeon.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Snuffy
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 04:30 PM

I'll buy pedant and curmudgeon, Bill, but local?? To Winnipeg??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad
From: Abby Sale
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 05:56 PM

Referring to a 2002 thread Buffalo Whore. I still think it's a much better chune than "Reuben."

Charlie, sorry I forgot about this when we met at last Mystic. If you haven't heard it yet, technology has now advanced to where I can post it to MYSpace if you like.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad
From: kendall
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 07:51 PM

Some were diddling on table
Some were diddling on the floor
I was over in the corner
Putting the boots to the Winnipeg Whore.

Some were diddling some were fiddling
One didn't know what the other was about
When I lost my watch and wallet
Jumped up-----I cried out.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 07:52 PM

I can still remember a few different verses from my young years. I'm not sure of exact words but something like this:

By the dirty old Red River
There's a shanty by the shore
That's where I got my first introduction
That's where I met the Winnipeg whore

Sons of bitches,whores and bastards
Half a dozen score or more
I was over in the corner
Banging like hell on the Winnipeg whore

Six long days my water burnt me
And my dick began to swell
How I cursed the Red River Valley
And the Winnipeg whore to hell

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Joe_F
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 10:04 PM

From _Songs of Raunch and Ill Repute_:

Five miles up the Saginaw River,
Way above the Canadian shore,
Lives a widow, Mrs. Finnigan,
Better known as the Winnipeg whore.

Mrs. Finnigan, where's your daughter?
We've come up to have some fun.
She's upstairs, a-passin' water;
She'll be down when she gets done.

Some were drunk, and some were sober,
Some were lying on the floor.
I was in the darkest corner,
Throwing the blocks to the Winnipeg whore.

She was fiddling, I was diddling,
Didn't know what 'twas all about,
Till she stole my watch and wallet,
And I let out a helluva shout.

Up jumped whores and sons-a-bitches,
Must have been a score or more.
You'd have laughed to cream your britches
To see my ass fly out the door.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Winnipeg Whore (not the 2 in the Trad)
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 10:11 PM

Snuffy...'local' always refers to Mudcat...*grin*