Lyr Add: Jim Taylor / John Taylor (Bawdy Song)

Subject: Lyr Add: Jim Taylor / John Taylor (Bawdy Song)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 11 Jun 23 - 09:42 PM

JOHN TAYLOR
(Dick Palfreyman [informant])

My name is John Taylor;
My c--- is a whaler;
My balls weight forty-five pounds;
If you see any ladies
Who want to have babies,
Just tell them John Taylor is in town!

My name is John Taylor;
My c--- is a whaler;
My balls weight fort-five pounds;
I'll catch Mrs. Hammer
And f--- her, God damn her,
And pin her old a-- to the ground!

My name is John Taylor;
My c--- is a whaler;
My balls weight forty-five pounds;
I say, in beginning,
Look out for your women,
When they hear that John Taylor is in town!

Pg 38, Songs and Ballads: Folk Material and Old Favorites, by James Kenneth Larson, Idaho, undated [c1933].

See online here:


See online here: https://archive.org/details/1933-1972jameskennethlarson/page/n39/mode/1up

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jim Taylor / John Taylor (Bawdy Song)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 11 Jun 23 - 09:44 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Name Is Yon Yonson - that's all???
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 05:55 PM

The song must have been widespread because I learned it in New Mexico-Colorado in the 1935 period.
Two songs are united in the extended version given by Barbara with the "Did but I don't anymore" line.

A very old song with a non-scandahoovian origin. See Randolph and Legman, "Roll Me in Your Arms," # 179, pp. 571ff.

Lyr. Add:
MY NAME IS JIM TAYLOR

My name is Joe Taylor, my prick is a whaler,
My ballyx weigh ninety-four pounds.
I'll seize old Susanner, I'll fuck her, God damn her,
I'll pin her old ass to the ground!

Variants Jim, Joe, Bill Baker, gals named Anna (from Butte, Montana, she loves my banana), and etc.

Oh, her love is a sailor, his name is Jim Taylor,
He's gone in a whaler all out on the sea.
Oh, how he loves her, whenever he grabs her,
And then he sits down to drink tea.

(I remember this from childhood- something mis-remembered in the last line)

 

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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jim Taylor / John Taylor (Bawdy Song)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 11 Jun 23 - 10:34 PM

The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #64869   Message #2352608
Posted By: GUEST
29-May-08 - 08:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Name Is Yon Yonson - that's all???
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Name Is Yon Yonson - that's all???

    When I was so young that us guys would repeat the dittys when adults couldn't hear, and I remember it this way:

    My name is Jim Taylor
    my dick is a whaler
    my balls weigh forty nine pounds
    so if you know a lady that wants baby
    just tell her Jim Taylors in town

    Forty nine pounds? We used to wonder at that.

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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jim Taylor / John Taylor (Bawdy Song)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 11 Jun 23 - 10:41 PM

JIM TAYLOR
Anonymous

My name is Jim Taylor,
My cock is a whaler,
My bollocks weigh ninety-four pound;
And when I fuck Anna
I fuck 'er God-damn 'er,—
I drive her ass into the ground.

Pg 52, Immortalia, 1927.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Jim Taylor / John Taylor (Bawdy Song)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 12 Jun 23 - 06:41 AM

My Name is Bob Taylor

My name is Bob Taylor
My cock is a whaler
My bollocks weighed 93 lbs
I captured your weather[?}
My partner got dam her
And pinned her old ass to the ground

"My Name Is Bob Taylor". Field recording. Sung in Portland, Michigan by Bill Bigford in 1975.

See online here: www.giffordmusic.net/MP3/BigfordMyNameIsBobTaylor.mp3

Other songs & recitations (Some bawdy) from the Gifford Collection is online:

https://www.giffordmusic.net/songs.html