Origins: Rain and Sorrow (Beside A Babbling Brook)

10 Jun 23 - 05:51 PM (#4174302)
Subject: Origins: RAIN AND SORROW Beside A Babbling Brook
From: Jack Horntip

RAIN AND SORROW
(Nello Deschamps [informant])

Beside a babbling brook,
A shady nook;
A girl all dressed in yellow;
Two ruby lips,
Two snow-white tits--
Oh, what a lucky fellow!

Nine days went by:
He heaved a sigh
Of awful pain and sorrow;
Two spots of pink
Were on his d---,
And there'll be more tomorrow!

Nine months went by:
She heaved a sign
Of awful pain and sorrow;
Two little mutts
Up in her guts,
And they'll be out tomorrow!

Pg 38, Songs and Ballads: Folk Material and Old Favorites, by James Kenneth Larson, typescript, undated [c1933].

https://archive.org/details/1933-1972jameskennethlarson/page/n38/mode/1up

I can find only, what I believe, is a passing parodoy (or response) to this song/poem.

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10 Jun 23 - 06:05 PM (#4174305)
Subject: RE: Origins: RAIN AND SORROW Beside A Babbling Brook
From: Jack Horntip

THE OTHER SIDE.

The lad who wrote that little note
About the moonlight mellow,
The shady nook, the babbling brook,
The lady,--and her fellow,--
Was well nigh right to say next night
You'd finder her with another
Who hugged the shore,--and something more,--
Thrice closer than a brother;
But he left out the rest about
The first one who had kissed her;
The jilted one was not so slow
As to let on he missed her.
But he found, too, another who
Enjoyed the brook so shady,
And while she had another lad
He had another lady.

This poem/song is a parody-response to the above. Found in Cornell Verse, pg 170, 1901.

See online:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cornell_Verse/SWdhsaPn820C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22babbling+brook%22+%22shady+nook%22&pg=PA170&printsec=frontcover

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