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29 Feb 08 - 02:39 AM (#2275448) Subject: Chimney Sweep - erotic song? From: GUEST,Murray on Salt Spring I'm annotating a song about seduction by various trades, and while the tinker is no problem, I'm stymied by a chimney sweep. ARE there any songs about seduction [or just advances] made by a sweep? I'm sure there must be some, the metaphors would be obvious. |
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29 Feb 08 - 03:09 AM (#2275460) Subject: RE: Chimney Sweep - erotic song? From: pavane Have you checked at the Bodleian library? Broadsides of all varieties there Bodleian ballad library Even if no sweeps, there are lots of others. |
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29 Feb 08 - 03:15 AM (#2275463) Subject: RE: Chimney Sweep - erotic song? From: Dave Sutherland There is a verse from "Early in the Morning" I'll be up your flue next week, I'll be up your flue next week, Right now I'm up some other woman's flue, It's as much as I can do, But I'll do your upstairs and your down, It'll only cost you half a crown, I'll be up with my brush and down like a thrush, And I'll be up your flue next week |
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29 Feb 08 - 04:17 AM (#2275483) Subject: RE: Chimney Sweep - erotic song? From: davyr How about "Sweep, chimney sweep"? The girls must have been coming unto his door for some reason... http://www.thecopperfamily.com/songs/coppersongs/sweep.html |
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29 Feb 08 - 07:54 AM (#2275587) Subject: ADD: Chimbley Sweep - Dylan Thomas From: John MacKenzie There's a song that was sung in the BBC production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, which was about chimney sweeps, and was definitely of the double entendre variety. It's sung by Mr Waldo Chimbley Sweep (Dylan Thomas - from Under Milk Wood) In Pembroke City when I was young I lived by the Castle Keep Sixpence a week was my wages For working for the chimbley-sweep. Six cold pennies he gave me Not a farthing more or less And all the fare I could afford Was parsnip gin and watercress. I did not need a knife and fork Or a bib up to my chin To dine on a dish of watercress And a jug of parsnip gin. Did you ever hear a growing boy To live so cruel cheap On grub that has no flesh and bones And liquor that makes you weep? Sweep sweep chimbley sweep, I wept through Pembroke City Poor and barefoot in the snow Till a kind young woman took pity. Poor little chimbley sweep she said Black as the ace of spades O nobody's swept my chimbley Since my husband went his ways Come and sweep my chimbley Come and sweep my chimbley She sighed to me with a blush Come and sweep my chimbley Come and sweep my chimbley Bring along your chimbley brush! Giok |
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29 Feb 08 - 09:39 AM (#2275680) Subject: RE: Chimney Sweep - erotic song? From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle On the same lines as DaveS: The lodging house I live in - it drives me off my dot The landlady there she's very nice, but a smokey flue she's got. This morning she came up to me as I was coming down And she said 'Mister, can you sweep my flue?' I said 'I'm off to town. But I'll be up your way next week, I'll be up your way next week. I've just swept out another woman's flue and my brush is bent and it won't suit you. I always like to do the job as well as any sweep You'll be singing like a thrush when I get my second brush - I'll be up your way next week' |
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29 Feb 08 - 11:42 AM (#2275785) Subject: RE: Chimney Sweep - erotic song? From: GUEST,Russ Maggie Hammons Parker (Pocahontas County, WV) sang a song she called "Little Tom Car." It does not say that Tom is a chimney sweept but he does enter a maiden's bedroom via the chimney to avoid her parents. Russ (Permanent GUEST) |
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29 Feb 08 - 12:57 PM (#2275857) Subject: RE: Chimney Sweep - erotic song? From: Q (Frank Staplin) There are several 'Chimney sweep' song sheets at the Bodleian. It seems to me these songs came up last year but I can't remember the thread. None erotic, if I remember. In the Bodleian, linked above by Pavanne, enter Chimney in Browse Index and their names and links are shown. |
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29 Feb 08 - 08:45 PM (#2276223) Subject: RE: Chimney Sweep - erotic song? From: SINSULL Chim Chiminey Chim Chiminey Chim Chim Cheree HMMMMM What exactly was Dick Van Dyke up to with Mary Poppins? |
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29 Feb 08 - 08:56 PM (#2276232) Subject: RE: Chimney Sweep - erotic song? From: Artful Codger Just to clarify, the "Chimbley Sweep" song in "Under Milk Wood" is an original part of Dylan Thomas's play; the script even provides the tune. |