06 Sep 23 - 05:49 PM (#4180801) Subject: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e The song below is bawdy traditional drinking song. If you are easily offended, please do not read or post to this thread. It will disappear from the thread list faster that way. I will be posting transcriptions of field recordings, example & variant texts, and, ultimately, evidence the song can be dated to at least the 1920s with some evidence that it was known during WWI. 82. I LOVE MY WIFE 1994. Song 82, Hash Hymnal of Paul Woodford, TXT file, This was sent to Ed Cray in 1994. |
06 Sep 23 - 05:49 PM (#4190061) Subject: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e The song below is bawdy traditional drinking song. If you are easily offended, please do not read or post to this thread. It will disappear from the thread list faster that way. I will be posting transcriptions of field recordings, example & variant texts, and, ultimately, evidence the song can be dated to at least the 1920s with some evidence that it was known during WWI. 82. I LOVE MY WIFE 1994. Song 82, Hash Hymnal of Paul Woodford, TXT file, This was sent to Ed Cray in 1994. |
06 Sep 23 - 05:51 PM (#4190062) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I Love My Wife November 1, 2004, retrieved from geocities.com/rugbysongs/rugbsongs.htm Seems to be an endlessly repeated version... |
06 Sep 23 - 05:51 PM (#4180802) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I Love My Wife November 1, 2004, retrieved from geocities.com/rugbysongs/rugbsongs.htm Seems to be an endlessly repeated version... |
06 Sep 23 - 05:51 PM (#4180803) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY WIFE February 2001, SRC Thor SONGBOOK, [songbook of the Student Rugby Club Thor, a student rugby club in Delft, Netherlands]. This Dutch songbook has some English language songs. Retrieved from www.madridlionsrfc.com/downloads/SONGBOOK.pdf on July 24, 2009. |
06 Sep 23 - 05:51 PM (#4190063) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY WIFE February 2001, SRC Thor SONGBOOK, [songbook of the Student Rugby Club Thor, a student rugby club in Delft, Netherlands]. This Dutch songbook has some English language songs. Retrieved from www.madridlionsrfc.com/downloads/SONGBOOK.pdf on July 24, 2009. |
06 Sep 23 - 05:53 PM (#4190064) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I love my wife International Federation of Mining and Metallurgy Students (IFMMS) International Songbook. [Created by Berencsi Zsolt, Digitally time stamped 3/15/2001] Retrieved from www.uni-miskolc.hu/~ifmms/songbook.doc on July 21, 2006. |
06 Sep 23 - 05:53 PM (#4180804) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I love my wife International Federation of Mining and Metallurgy Students (IFMMS) International Songbook. [Created by Berencsi Zsolt, Digitally time stamped 3/15/2001] Retrieved from www.uni-miskolc.hu/~ifmms/songbook.doc on July 21, 2006. |
06 Sep 23 - 05:54 PM (#4180805) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY WIFE June 1, 2002. USAF Series Utility After-Flight Manual: Bone Driver's Handbook [37th Bomber Squadron B1-B songbook]. pgs 10-11, MS-Word file. See online here: https://archive.org/details/200237thbombersquadronb-1bsquadronsongbook/page/10/mode/1up |
06 Sep 23 - 05:54 PM (#4190065) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY WIFE June 1, 2002. USAF Series Utility After-Flight Manual: Bone Driver's Handbook [37th Bomber Squadron B1-B songbook]. pgs 10-11, MS-Word file. See online here: https://archive.org/details/200237thbombersquadronb-1bsquadronsongbook/page/10/mode/1up |
06 Sep 23 - 05:56 PM (#4190066) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e How does every good fighter pilot song start? Track #2, "I Love My wife" on 2003, A Night at the Bar with the Boys. It was recorded by Sneedo, G, and Tommy T, aka T-Bone, aka Face (a trio of US Air Force Warthog pilots) in St. Thomas Church, Glenhoola, Scotland in 1989 and originally issued on cassette. |
06 Sep 23 - 05:56 PM (#4180806) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e How does every good fighter pilot song start? Track #2, "I Love My wife" on 2003, A Night at the Bar with the Boys. It was recorded by Sneedo, G, and Tommy T, aka T-Bone, aka Face (a trio of US Air Force Warthog pilots) in St. Thomas Church, Glenhoola, Scotland in 1989 and originally issued on cassette. |
06 Sep 23 - 05:57 PM (#4180807) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e One night in gay Paree Posted by mudcat GUEST,Jan to the HOW I LOVE MY MOTHER IN LAW thread April 18, 2010. See here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=2889249 |
06 Sep 23 - 05:57 PM (#4190067) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e One night in gay Paree Posted by mudcat GUEST,Jan to the HOW I LOVE MY MOTHER IN LAW thread April 18, 2010. See here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=2889249 |
06 Sep 23 - 05:58 PM (#4190068) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I love my wife February 15, 1998. Finnish Wuorikautiset online magazine in PDF. Retrieved from www.tky-hut.fi/~vk/Wuorik_2-98.pdf |
06 Sep 23 - 05:58 PM (#4180808) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I love my wife February 15, 1998. Finnish Wuorikautiset online magazine in PDF. Retrieved from www.tky-hut.fi/~vk/Wuorik_2-98.pdf |
06 Sep 23 - 06:04 PM (#4180809) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I KNOW A GIRL Transcribed from the field recording dated August 8, 2006 of "BoY GeOrge", learned 1965 at university. He thought the song was one song until he started playing rugby and then heard others sing "these foolish things..." but never heard other sing the beginning. Listen here: https://archive.org/download/jack_horntip_collection_field_recordings/0042%2011%20-%20I%20Know%20A%20Girl%20%5BAka%20I%20Love%20My%20Girl%20With%20These%20Foolish%20Things%2C%201964-1965%5D.mp3 |
06 Sep 23 - 06:04 PM (#4190069) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I KNOW A GIRL Transcribed from the field recording dated August 8, 2006 of "BoY GeOrge", learned 1965 at university. He thought the song was one song until he started playing rugby and then heard others sing "these foolish things..." but never heard other sing the beginning. Listen here: https://archive.org/download/jack_horntip_collection_field_recordings/0042%2011%20-%20I%20Know%20A%20Girl%20%5BAka%20I%20Love%20My%20Girl%20With%20These%20Foolish%20Things%2C%201964-1965%5D.mp3 |
06 Sep 23 - 06:05 PM (#4190070) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY WIFE Posted by GUEST,.gargoyle December 16, 2001 from the 1981. CAMP PENDLETON "GHOST RIDERS" RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB OFFICIAL SONG BOOK (Second Edition). See post here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=611351 |
06 Sep 23 - 06:05 PM (#4180810) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY WIFE Posted by GUEST,.gargoyle December 16, 2001 from the 1981. CAMP PENDLETON "GHOST RIDERS" RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB OFFICIAL SONG BOOK (Second Edition). See post here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=611351 |
06 Sep 23 - 06:06 PM (#4180811) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e ANTON RAFF: It was a ribald song. Pg 77, Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years by Michael Posner. 2020 Google search that has text: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+LOVE+MY+girl%22+%22love+the%22+%22through%22+song&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=562531629&biw=1536&bih=704&tbm=bks&ei=6dn1ZJmEHKewptQPy62r2A8&ved=0ahUKEwjZnMqihpGBAxUnmIkEHcvWCvsQ4dUDCAk&uact=5&oq=%22I+LOVE+MY+girl%22+%22love+the%22+%22through%22+song&gs_lp=Eg1nd3Mtd2l6LWJvb2tzIioiSSBMT1ZFIE1ZIGdpcmwiICJsb3ZlIHRoZSIgInRocm91Z2giIHNvbmdIgQ1QngNY3AhwAHgAkAEAmAFboAG2A6oBATa4AQPIAQD4AQHCAgQQIRgKiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-books |
06 Sep 23 - 06:06 PM (#4190071) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e ANTON RAFF: It was a ribald song. Pg 77, Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years by Michael Posner. 2020 Google search that has text: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+LOVE+MY+girl%22+%22love+the%22+%22through%22+song&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=562531629&biw=1536&bih=704&tbm=bks&ei=6dn1ZJmEHKewptQPy62r2A8&ved=0ahUKEwjZnMqihpGBAxUnmIkEHcvWCvsQ4dUDCAk&uact=5&oq=%22I+LOVE+MY+girl%22+%22love+the%22+%22through%22+song&gs_lp=Eg1nd3Mtd2l6LWJvb2tzIioiSSBMT1ZFIE1ZIGdpcmwiICJsb3ZlIHRoZSIgInRocm91Z2giIHNvbmdIgQ1QngNY3AhwAHgAkAEAmAFboAG2A6oBATa4AQPIAQD4AQHCAgQQIRgKiAYB&sclient=gws-wiz-books |
06 Sep 23 - 06:06 PM (#4190072) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY GAL January 18, 2006, transcription of field recording of Ian Cumming. He said this was a cleaned up version for mixed company. Listen here: https://archive.org/download/jack_horntip_collection_field_recordings/0124%20I%20Love%20My%20Gal%20%5BAka%20I%20Love%20My%20Wife%2C%20Cleaned%20Up%20Version%20For%20Mixed%20Company%5D.mp3 |
06 Sep 23 - 06:06 PM (#4180812) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY GAL January 18, 2006, transcription of field recording of Ian Cumming. He said this was a cleaned up version for mixed company. Listen here: https://archive.org/download/jack_horntip_collection_field_recordings/0124%20I%20Love%20My%20Gal%20%5BAka%20I%20Love%20My%20Wife%2C%20Cleaned%20Up%20Version%20For%20Mixed%20Company%5D.mp3 |
06 Sep 23 - 06:08 PM (#4180813) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e Pat Rocchio-19 Indiana University Archive Ascension # 2003/055. |
06 Sep 23 - 06:08 PM (#4190073) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e Pat Rocchio-19 Indiana University Archive Ascension # 2003/055. |
06 Sep 23 - 06:09 PM (#4190074) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e To show that this is not exclusively a "male" song, here is evidence of a woman performing: ... During a Scotch-and-tradition-soaked weekend at Princetone, Cece and I c1960, from Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir by Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan. Done while at Finch College while visiting Princeton. See here: https://archive.org/details/1917gordoninfernocollection/page/n133/mode/1up?q=%22love+my+wife%22 |
06 Sep 23 - 06:09 PM (#4180814) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e To show that this is not exclusively a "male" song, here is evidence of a woman performing: ... During a Scotch-and-tradition-soaked weekend at Princetone, Cece and I c1960, from Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir by Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan. Done while at Finch College while visiting Princeton. See here: https://archive.org/details/1917gordoninfernocollection/page/n133/mode/1up?q=%22love+my+wife%22 |
06 Sep 23 - 07:12 PM (#4180820) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e List of titles of unpublishable WWII songs in Les Cleveland's 1959 book Songs We Sang: A Collection of N. Z. Army and Service Ballads
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06 Sep 23 - 07:12 PM (#4190075) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e List of titles of unpublishable WWII songs in Les Cleveland's 1959 book Songs We Sang: A Collection of N. Z. Army and Service Ballads
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07 Sep 23 - 12:00 AM (#4190076) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY GIRL October 19-20, 1963, transcribed from the singing of Jim Hitchcock, recorded by Joe Hickerson, in an informal song session. This collection (LC-AFS 17022) is in the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The tune is the same as in the field later field recordings above. |
07 Sep 23 - 12:00 AM (#4180834) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e I LOVE MY GIRL October 19-20, 1963, transcribed from the singing of Jim Hitchcock, recorded by Joe Hickerson, in an informal song session. This collection (LC-AFS 17022) is in the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The tune is the same as in the field later field recordings above. |
07 Sep 23 - 12:01 AM (#4180835) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e 25 I LOVE MY WIFE c1937, Song 25, The Digger & Jovial Songster, Alland & Co. Pty. Ltd. (publisher), [undated]. A "digger" was a Australian & New Zealand soldier. Online here: https://archive.org/details/1937ca-the-digger-and-jovial-songster/page/n10/mode/1up |
07 Sep 23 - 12:01 AM (#4190077) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e 25 I LOVE MY WIFE c1937, Song 25, The Digger & Jovial Songster, Alland & Co. Pty. Ltd. (publisher), [undated]. A "digger" was a Australian & New Zealand soldier. Online here: https://archive.org/details/1937ca-the-digger-and-jovial-songster/page/n10/mode/1up |
07 Sep 23 - 12:02 AM (#4190078) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e 2377 December 25, 1926, William F. Burroughs, DuBois, Maryland, in the Gordon Inferno Collection, No. 2377. See here: https://archive.org/details/1917gordoninfernocollection/page/n133/mode/1up?q=%22love+my+wife%22 |
07 Sep 23 - 12:02 AM (#4180836) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: and e 2377 December 25, 1926, William F. Burroughs, DuBois, Maryland, in the Gordon Inferno Collection, No. 2377. See here: https://archive.org/details/1917gordoninfernocollection/page/n133/mode/1up?q=%22love+my+wife%22 |
07 Sep 23 - 03:53 AM (#4180843) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: Steve Shaw I'm ashamed to say that we sang a version very close to the one in the opening post (though with "nut-brown") in the Imperial College union bar in the late 60s/ early 70s. I don't remember anything beyond that one verse. |
07 Sep 23 - 03:53 AM (#4190060) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Love My Wife / I Love My Gal (Bawdy) From: Steve Shaw I'm ashamed to say that we sang a version very close to the one in the opening post (though with "nut-brown") in the Imperial College union bar in the late 60s/ early 70s. I don't remember anything beyond that one verse. |