songs where the woman comes out on top

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 09 Jun 06 - 12:35 PM

Eggs and Marrowbone

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jun 06 - 12:31 PM

also...Unfortunate Miss Bailey in the DT.

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jun 06 - 12:28 PM

"The Ten Dollar Bill"
a young serving woman at a 'gathering' is seduced by cad who gives her a $10 note for her trouble....so next year at the gathering, he settles back to smoke cigars with the boys, when the girl walks up and plops a baby in his lap...."What's this?", he cries...."do you not remember last year when you gave a girl a note for 'services'? Here's your change."

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: nutty
Date: 09 Jun 06 - 12:03 PM

I would love the words to this song .... the chorus goes something like.......

So I'll go and I'll GET BLUE BLAZING BLIND DRUNK
JUST TO GIVE MICKEY A WARNING
AND THEN, JUST FOR SPITE,
I'LL STAY OUT ALL NIGHT
AND COME ROLLING HOME DRUNK IN THE MORNING

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: bfdk
Date: 09 Jun 06 - 10:20 AM

Bloke "hires" a bonny maid and refuses to pay. The song ends

"For I will hae the last laugh
For I've left ye wi' the pox.."

From "Fair Maid of London Town", to be found on this CD.

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Jun 06 - 01:01 AM

The Friar And The Well.

eric

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: Little Robyn
Date: 09 Jun 06 - 12:55 AM

Mike Waterson's song

A stitch in time.
Here in Digitrad.
Robyn

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: Deckman
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 10:28 PM

I was going to mention "EQUINOXIAL AND PHOBE", but some else already did. So, I won't mention "EQINONIAL AND PHOBE" again ... tonight ... maybe. Bob

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: mrdux
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 10:13 PM

Sovay, about an apparently successful woman highwayperson, whose lover turns out to be faithful. A version is in the DT. Bert Lloyd's version adds this final verse (our heroine to her lover (and erstwhile robbery victim)):

"I only did it for to know
Whether you were a man or no;
If you would given me that ring", she said,
"I'd pull the trigger,
I'd pull the trigger and shot you dead!"

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: Abby Sale
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 09:58 PM

Cherry Tree Coral
Bonnie Lass of Anglesee
Baffled Knight, #112 & all its varients - Shepherd L
Birken Tree (not the one in DT, the one where she tricks him - again)
Tailor's Breeches (in its way and all the other prostitute/beggar lass songs where he winds up with a std & she winds up with his money & clothes. Dozens of these.
The Half Hitch
Most songs that begin "The Female ..."
Get Up and Bar the Door (?)
Prince Heathen (Carthy's version, anyway)
Ned of the Hill
Devil And Feathery Wife
Farmer's Crust Wife

Oh, I think there's plenty

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 08:58 PM

Yonder Stands Little Maggie is the only Bluegrass song that I know of where the woman comes out ahead.

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: Susan of DT
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 08:56 PM

Broomfield Wager
Maid on the Shore
Crafty Maid's Policy
Phoebe and Equinoxal/Old Grumble

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: GUEST,TJ
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 08:49 PM

"The Elf Knight", in which a young woman is lured into the woods by an unpleasant little fellow who turns out to be a serial murderer, but she successfully induces him to fall asleep and then stabs him with his own knife. Moral of the story: don't date elves.

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: IvanB
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 08:42 PM

"Willy Taylor" He's pressed before they can marry, she signs on board a ship to go find him, finds he's married a rich young lady, shoots him and is rewarded with command of a ship.

"The Outlandish Knight" Child #4, also known by various other names. In most of them the maiden outwits the knight, leading to his death or to his looking the fool outside her father's gates.

"A Blacksmith Courted me" Another one where the man marries another. Her response, is, basically, "Well that was stupid of me, but the best revenge is a good life."

There's another one where the young lady is angered by the long lost lover's testing upon his return and tells him to get lost, but I can't remember the name.

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: freightdawg
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 08:31 PM

Is the title of this thread a double entendre?

Subject: RE: songs where the woman comes out on top
From: jaze
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 08:28 PM

How about "Jackaroe"? A wealthy merchants daughter who dresses as a man to find her true love in the war and actually does!

Subject: songs where the woman comes out on top
From:
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 08:17 PM

I'm looking for songs where the woman comes out on top. Ballads are best. Any folk songs would be good. Where the woman doesn't end up pregnant, heart-broken, or dead.