Lyr Add: Canal Street (bawdy)

Subject: Lyr Add: The Whore Song
From: michaelr
Date: 24 Jun 05 - 07:03 PM

Walking in the park
Life was such a bore
Goddamn sonofabitch
I couldn't find a whore

Finally found a whore
She was tall and thin
Goddamn sonofabitch
I couldn't get it in

Finally got it in
Moved it all about
Goddamn sonofabitch
I couldn't get it out

Finally got it out
It was red and sore
Goddamn sonofabitch
Shouldn't have fucked that whore


Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One for John Mehlberg
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Jun 05 - 07:44 PM

There's nothing like a good song !!! And that is - - - - - - - - -

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One for John Mehlberg
From: Snuffy
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 09:28 AM

You'll find other versions (often called Canal Street) here, here, here, and here and probably in other threads as well

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One for John Mehlberg
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 10:05 AM

I heard it in Michigan in 1962. "Teensy-weensy Spider" tune.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One for John Mehlberg
From: michaelr
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 10:32 AM

I should have known...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One for John Mehlberg
From: John M.
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 04:21 PM

michaelr, Thanks for the song. As you can tell, I don't regularly read mudcat.

So michaelr when & where did you learn this song? What tune do you use? I know of "Bell Bottom Trowsers" & "Candy Man".

Would you be willing to sing it over the phone to me?

Any help is appreciated.

Yours,

John Mehlberg
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My website: www.immortalia.com



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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One for John Mehlberg
From: michaelr
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 06:40 PM

John, it was recited to me by a friend some years back. I've never heard it sung.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: One for John Mehlberg
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 08:00 PM

A version of this song is on record by Doug Clark and the Hot Nutts on one of their albums.