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Origins: I Learned About Horses From Her DigiTrad: I LEARNED ABOUT HORSES FROM HER Related threads: Lyr Add: I Learned About Women from Her -Kipling (6) Lyr Req: The Ladies (Rudyard Kipling) (7)
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Subject: Origins: I Learned About Horses From Her From: GUEST,IanC Date: 02 Feb 05 - 08:48 AM I'm sorry if this has come up before, but th search isn't working at the moment and I thought I'd note it down while I remembered. I was looking for something else, when I came across the song above and it struck me that it looked very much like a parody of Kipling's "The Ladies" (I learned about women from her). The notes in DT say: From "Songs My Mother Never Taught Me", by John Jacob Niles, Douglas S. Moore, and A.A.Wallgren. EB OCT98 Here's the Kipling poem (the language might offend and, if so, I'm sorry). THE LADIES Rudyard Kipling I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts, An' four o' the lot was prime. One was an 'arf-caste widow, One was a woman at Prome, One was the wife of a jemadar-sais, An' one is a girl at 'ome. Now I aren't no 'and with the ladies, For, takin' 'em all along, You never can say till you've tried 'em, An' then you are like to be wrong. There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, There's times when you'll know that you might; But the things you will learn from the Yellow an' Brown, They'll 'elp you a lot with the White! I was a young un at 'Oogli, Shy as a girl to begin; Aggie de Castrer she made me, An' Aggie was clever as sin; Older than me, but my first un - More like a mother she were - Showed me the way to promotion an' pay, An' I learned about women from 'er! Then I was ordered to Burma, Actin' in charge o' Bazaar, An' I got me a tiddy live 'eathen Through buyin' supplies off 'er pa. Funny an' yellow an' faithful - Doll in a teacup she were, But we lived on the square, like a true-married pair, An' I learned about women from 'er! Then we was shifted to Neemuch (Or I might ha' been keepin' 'er now), An' I took with a shiny she-devil, The wife of a nigger at Mhow; Taught me the gipsy-folks' bolee; Kind o' volcano she were, For she knifed me one night 'cause I wished she was white, And I learned about women from 'er! Then I come 'ome in the trooper, 'Long of a kid o' sixteen - Girl from a convent at Meerut, The straightest I ever 'ave seen. Love at first sight was 'er trouble, She didn't know what it were; An' I wouldn't do such, 'cause I liked 'er too much, But - I learned about women from 'er! I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one; An' the end of it's sittin' and thinkin', An' dreamin' Hell-fires to see; So be warned by my lot (which I know you will not), An' learn about women from me! What did the Colonel's Lady think? Nobody never knew. Somebody asked the Sergeant's wife, An' she told 'em true! When you get to a man in the case, They're like as a row of pins - For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins! |
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Subject: RE: Origins: I Learned About Horses From Her From: GUEST,Joe Offer Date: 02 Feb 05 - 02:09 PM Hi, Ian - For the record, the lyrics in the Digital Tradition are here (click) Here's the entry from the Traditional Ballad Index: I Learned about Horses from HimDESCRIPTION: The singer describes the horses (and others) he has met in his life. Every incident ends with the rueful comment, "I learned about horses from him." There is a "horse," Conscience, he hasn't ridden; he expects hereafter to learn about that horse from HimAUTHOR: George B. German EARLIEST DATE: 1932 KEYWORDS: cowboy horse humorous Gods FOUND IN: US REFERENCES (1 citation): Ohrlin-HBT 71, "I Learned about Horses from Him" (1 text, 1 tune) Notes: Modeled after Kipling's poem "The Ladies" ("I Learned about Women from Her"). - RBW File: Ohr071 Go to the Ballad Search form The Ballad Index Copyright 2004 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle.
-Joe Offer- Click to play Ohrlin tune- It's unclear whether this tune is appropriate or authentic for the Kipling and Goebel Reeves versions. |
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