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Subject: Lyr Req: help-need title of a raunchy blues song From: GUEST,Asheville1120 Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:30 PM I am trying to find a song I heard on a North Carolina public radio station, on Sat Sept 3, around 11pm. I believe it was part of a radio show, which featured risque blues songs, but I'm not sure. This was a song sung by a woman, and used 'drilling for oil' as a metaphor for having sex. Does anyone know what this song is? I need to find a copy of it. Thanks! Asheville 1120 |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help-need title of a raunchy blues song From: Janie Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:48 PM Could it have been the show "Back Porch Music"? You can go to WUNC.org, click on Back Porch Music and from their archives download a playlist from any particular date. Janie |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help-need title of a raunchy blues so From: GUEST,Asheville1120 Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:58 PM I checked the WUNC website and I don't see it. I'm thinking that this song may be a little too 'blue' for Back Porch music. Some other lyrics I'm remembering: "if the well runs dry then you grab a stick and I'll grab a pole and we'll find another hole..." Can't believe I'm writing this... :) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help-need title of a raunchy blues song From: Janie Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:07 PM There is also Blues Central out of Charlotte--I'm wondering about Memphis Minnie on the 9/3 playlist. Janie |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help-need title of a raunchy blues so From: GUEST Date: 12 Sep 05 - 02:49 PM I checked with Back Porch music and he said it wasn't played by them... how could a song be so difficult to find? Thanks for everyone's help. It is much appreciated! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help-need title of a raunchy blues song From: Le Scaramouche Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:45 PM Have you tried googling the lyrics you remember? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help-need title of a raunchy blues song From: Tinker Date: 13 Sep 05 - 07:14 AM I haven't heard that one and my first search doesn't bring it up. This link may give a few ideas... Hokum had many private label releases and it could be hard to find. The radio station is your best bet. Tinker |
Subject: Lyr Add: DRILLING FOR OIL From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 13 Sep 05 - 11:56 AM It's a reasonably common bawdy song known as "Drilling For Oil" that may have stemmed from an older one called "Digging for Gold." Check Llewtrah's website, he has "Oil" under the title "Boring For Oil" and one of "Gold." Here's my text, goes to tune, more or less, of "Sweet Betsy." My tune's a little closer to the Irish original and has a different sound. Bob DRILLING FOR OIL It's not an uncommon but an unpleasant thing To be asked for a song and have nothing to sing, This world's always looking for something that's new, But I'll sing you an old one if an old one will do. I went to Oil City, it's a place of renown, To view the oil wells and look all around, I had a notion of prospecting the soil, In search of someplace to go drilling for oil. So I was out searching for oil wells one day, When I met a young lady and to her did say, I'm seeking my fortune and willing to toil, If you'll show me someplace to go drilling for oil. I know of one place, sir, she said with a smile, Which I've guarded and protected since I was a child, My mama told me this place not to despoil, And if you drill there you are bound to strike oil. She lifted her skirts up for fear they might soil, And showed me the spot to go drilling for oil, My heart it did tremble, my blood it did boil, I pulled out my auger to go drilling for oil. I hadn't bored more than six inches or so, The maiden cried out, have a care, please go slow, My character you've ruined, my clothes you did soil, I'm awful afeared you're about to strike oil! But on I bored deeper, I could not go slow, The oil from my auger so swiftly did flow, She screamed and she hollered and tried to recoil, You've busted my bedrock in your drilling for oil! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help-need title of a raunchy blues so From: dick greenhaus Date: 13 Sep 05 - 09:26 PM There's another version in DigiTrad: BORING FOR OIL. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help-need title of a raunchy blues song From: Dani Date: 13 Sep 05 - 10:00 PM WELL, if Tinker and Greenhaus can't find it, you're.... out of luck. You can also try WXYC (www.wxyc.org): they're good about playlists and helping people find songs, and are always playing some of the strangest things at the strangest times. Dani |
Subject: RE: req title of a raunchy blues song-drilling for oil From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 14 Sep 05 - 03:31 PM In Texas, some of the men do it; Others drill a hole & then do it. Let's do it -- let's fall in love.... --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Faith is belief for which evidence is not needed, because it is backed up with the threat of a beating. :|| |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil From: and e Date: 14 Jan 25 - 08:53 AM Boring for Oil. 1883-1897. Broadside from Bawdy Ledger Book With Broadsides. This scanned ledger/scrapbook -- with two-thirds song related -- with approximately 35 bawdy broadsides. The it consists of doggerel poems, bawdy jokes & stories. Using internal dates, the collection dates from ~1883-97. Reportedly the ledger book was found in the attic of an 1880's house during renovations in a town in upstate NY near the Erie Canal. See online: https://archive.org/details/1883-1897-bawdy-ledger-book-with-broadsides/page/n27/mode/1up |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil From: Richard Mellish Date: 14 Jan 25 - 11:03 AM Bert Lloyd had a version of this, set on the shore of the North Sea and involving a mermaid. I wasn't aware of these American versions till now. Bert presumably based his on one of them. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil From: and e Date: 14 Jan 25 - 07:03 PM BORING FOR OIL c1924. The Gordon Inferno Collection. Davids MSS. Written down by R.M. Davids, Cross X Ranch, Woodmere, Florida, Sent in to R.W. Gordon by J.C. Colcord 12/21/29. See online: https://archive.org/details/1917gordoninfernocollection/page/n19/mode/1up?q=oil |
Subject: RE: Origins: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil From: Richard Mellish Date: 16 Jan 25 - 04:12 AM As sung by Bert Lloyd at Dingle's Folk Club 4-4-1973. Down by the North Sea shore, a while before now, While seekin' me fortune and ramblin' around, I spied a young mermaid, very pretty as I recall, And I asked this sweet creature where I might find oil. "Oh I know a little oil well not very far from here, And I've been watchin' over it with the tenderest care, And no-one's been near it since I was a child, And I think you'd find profit to bore there a while." So I set up me rig and I made a fine stand, And this sweet little creature gave me a helping hand, Saying "Daddy, oh Daddy, it makes me blood boil, When you set up your auger to go boring for oil." Oh I kissed this little creature ten thousand times o'er, As we toiled there together all on the sea shore, With a pillow under her fish-tail, for fear it should soil, I spat on me auger and went borin for oil. Hadn't been borin' three minutes or four. At a few inches depth, boys, the gusher did pour, And she wriggled and giggled and looked up and smiled, Said "Bear down on that auger, for I think you've struck oil." It's about a few days after, a thought come in me head, For the end of that auger was rusty and red, And I took it to the doctor, and he says with a smile, "I think you struck shale there while boring for oil." |
Subject: RE: Origins: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil From: and e Date: 22 Jan 25 - 09:56 PM Brown wax home recording of accordion music and two men singing "Boring for Oil". I can't make out the words. The notes: Announcement at beginning: "Accordion solo, let 'er go." Listen here: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder13201 |
Subject: RE: Origins: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil From: and e Date: 23 Jan 25 - 11:06 AM Boring For Oil August 24, 1938. Emerald Gallagher. Saint James, Beaver Island, MI. Listen here: https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1939007_afs02267a/? |
Subject: RE: Origins: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil From: and e Date: 23 Jan 25 - 11:14 AM Drill Daddy, Drill To answer the initial post, the song is "Drill Daddy Drill" sung by Dorothy Ellis. Released as a single on Federal Records in April 1952. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil From: and e Date: 23 Jan 25 - 02:04 PM Boring For Oil August 27, 1940. Transcribed from the singing of Lewis Winfield Moody, Plainfield, WI. Download here: https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/J7G5SVHXEPAC58U |
Subject: RE: Origins: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil From: Lighter Date: 24 Jan 25 - 01:58 PM This is what I hear on the Giovannoni cylinder. A few words may be off: I met a fair damsel one night in fresh spring. She told me of an oil well that’s not far away. No one had touched it since she was a child, What a beautiful place to go boring for oil. I showed this fair damsel my tools of the trade. Show me the oil, I’ll see you’re well paid. She hoisted her garments for fear they might spoil And she showed me the place to go boring for oil. I hadn’t been boring but a minute or two, For the oil from her oil well so freely did flow. I got so excited my blood it did boil, When I throwed her my augur when boring for oil. Tune is "The Wagoner's Lad." The accordion leads me to think the recording was made in the '20s. |
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