19 Sep 97 - 10:09 PM (#12619) Subject: Lyr Add: THE BAD GIRL From: Alice
Well, here it is for all of you to join in with the songs that bemoan lives ruined by rum, Irish whiskey, or other chemicals. Prohibition, temperance, prodigal sons and daughters, opium eaters,... whatever. I'll start with one that I couldn't find in the database. My source for this song is FOLK SONGS OF NORTH AMERICA by Alan Lomax, but the second verse is a verse that I wrote. THE BAD GIRL
When I was a young girl, I used to seek pleasure
So go tell my mama that my life is over.
Come papa, come mama, and sit you down by me.
Oh, send for the preacher to come and pray for me.
I want four young ladies to bear up my coffin. |
19 Sep 97 - 11:52 PM (#12627) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Barry Isn't that to the tune "The Streets Of Libido" Barry |
19 Sep 97 - 11:58 PM (#12628) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Earl How about "The Fatal Glass of Beer" made famous by W.C. Fields? |
20 Sep 97 - 12:34 AM (#12630) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice Barry... close, but not really. "The Bard of Armagh" tune has more of the Laredo/Libido bent, so to speak. Alice |
20 Sep 97 - 12:52 AM (#12633) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice Barry, couldn't resist looking up more info on the "Bad Girl". I found more than I have the time to post here. It is derived from "The Sailor Cut Down in His Prime." The family of ballads with the guilt-ridden moral that Love Kills... Other titles in the family include, "The Unfortunate Rake", "The Irish Rake", "The Unfortunate Lad", "The Rakish Young Fellow", "St. James Hospital", and "The Rambling Boy". Syphilis often did them in:
Had she but told me before she disordered me The bad girl versions include "One Morning in May" and "The Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime". There is that "wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay" fate that later befalls our American cowboy. There are also versions for a lumberjack and a miner dying of silicosis, which comes close to home here.
Twas once in the saddle I used to go dashing, Alice in Montana (but not in Butte) |
20 Sep 97 - 01:44 AM (#12635) Subject: Lyr Add: JACK RADCLIFFE and BOSTON BURGLAR etc. From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Why, there are many songs that warn against drink and fast company. The ones you quote, BTW, I call the "beat the drums slowly" genre of song. "A Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime" (or "Unfortunate Lass,” which is in the database) is one such, as is "When I Was On Horseback" by Steeleye Span. I think they are indeed related to "Streets of Laredo" although there is a cowboy song very close to "When I Was On Horseback", the lyrics of which escape me now. It does say "I am a poor cowboy, who done no one wrong." I venture that the rarely heard full version of "Saint James Infirmary" (the one that begins, "I went down to Old Joe's bar-room") is also of this genre, except it asks for a twenty-dollar gold piece on the watch chain rather than roses and a jazz band rather than pipers. "The devil has all the best songs,” as Martin Luther said. Here are a few, pardon if I didn't split up the lines properly. They are just songs of downfall and warning, not of the above genre to which I refer. I post them because they don't seem to be in the database and the muse moves me: JACK RADCLIFFE
When first I came to Liverpool, I went upon a spree
Last night I slept with Angeline too drunk to roll in bed
As I went walking down the street I spied old Napier Brown
He put me on board of a whaling ship, bound for the Arctic seas
Sometimes we catches sperm whales, boys and sometimes we do catch none
So come all me bold sea-faring laddies and listen to my song THE BOSTON BURGLAR
I was born and raised in Boston, a city you all know well
My character was broken, and I was sent to jail
I can see me dear old father, standing at the bar
They put me on an eastbound train, one cold December day
All you who have your liberty, take heed if you can SAVE YOUR MONEY WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG ME BOYS (Forgot first two verses of earlier foolishness)
If you are a single man, I'll tell you what to do
(Chorus) For once I was a shanty boy, and wasn't I a lad
And if you are a married man, I'll tell you what to do (Chorus same) |
20 Sep 97 - 01:48 AM (#12636) Subject: Lyr Add: SAVE YOUR MONEY WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG ME BOYS From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Sorry, that should have been the rarely-heard full version of Saint James Infirmary. See the previous message for SAVE YOUR MONEY WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG ME BOYS. --JoeClone, 9-Mar-02.
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20 Sep 97 - 12:40 PM (#12658) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice Tim... just to clarify, my point was that the TUNE of Streets of Laredo is closer to the Bard of Armagh, than the TUNE of the Bad Girl. The sentiments and some lyrics are definitely of the same family of songs. Alice |
21 Sep 97 - 03:05 AM (#12726) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca I see that I forgot to put in the penultimate lyric of the Boston Burglar. Here it is:
There's a girl in Boston City, a girl I know so well, It's been a while since I've sung it, so you may excuse me. |
21 Sep 97 - 12:35 PM (#12752) Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL From: Shula This is the version of "The Bad Girl" I learned; don't recall the source; sorry:
WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL Shula |
21 Sep 97 - 11:07 PM (#12799) Subject: Lyr Add: MICHAEL ROY From: Barry I was being tongue and cheek when I mentioned The Bad Girl being sung to the tune of The Streets Of Laredo/Libido. In 1856, Michael Roy appeared published in songsters. In 1888 it appeared in a collection compiled by Evert Wendell with an added last verse. This seems to be a composite of two earlier songs "The Charcoal Man" and "My Boy With The Auburn Hair.”
In Brooklyn City there lived a maid, and she was known to fame.
CHO. For O, for O, for he was my darling boy.
She fell in love with a charcoal man. McCloskey was his name.
They both did holler with all their might for the donkey for to stop,
Now ladies all take warning by the fate of Mary Jane,
From June Lazare's Folk Songs Of New York City" 1966-Folkways
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22 Sep 97 - 02:12 PM (#12841) Subject: Lyr Add: HAVE COURAGE, MY BOY, TO SAY NO From: Jon W. Okay, here's my entries: "Fareweill tae Whiskey" (it's in DT)
"God Don't Like It (And I don't Either)" - this was sung by an unknown female vocalist, accompanied by Blind Willie McTell, about the evils of moonshine. I'll have to listen to it again before I can post the lyrics but the chorus goes like this:
'Cause God don't like it and I don't either (3x) And finally, from my own (Utah Mormon) tradition: "Have Courage, My Boy, To Say No"
You've started today on your journey, alone on the highway of life
Chorus: Have courage, my boy to say "No."
The bright ruby wine may be offered, no matter how tempting it be Chorus
In courage alone lies your safety, as you the long journey begin Chorus PS to Barry: I like to think my great-great-grandfather Omer loved my great-great-grandmother Eleanor just as much as he loved his other wives. And if you called him an object of pity, he'd probably kickbox you all the way back to Nauvoo ;-) |
22 Sep 97 - 03:47 PM (#12851) Subject: Lyr Add: THE JUICE OF THE BARLEY From: Wkailey Note to Time Jaques: The "Old Jack Sprat, the poor sailor man, who must go to sea once more" song is included in a collection of Sea Chanties I got from the Smithsonian Institution when I was there. It may still be available from the Smithsonian. They have alternative versions of several verses. One of there's, I think, is clearly superior to one of yours. It goes "But I'll give yer a chance and I'll TAKE yer advance and I'll send you to sea once more" This makes more sense than the version you recorded because sailors were often paid advances when signing up with a vessel. A percentage of this advance would often go to the agent who found them a birth. This particular agent is complaining because last time "to me you chalked no score." Therefore, he will take all of the advance money from the whaler this time. Hence, Jack has "no hard weather gear, since I'd spent all me money ashore." Here's one from the Clancy Brothers. It is typically Irish, and so I love it. OK, so it's not all sackcloth and ashes, but it's a good, light-hearted parody of this genre.
The Juice of the Barley |
22 Sep 97 - 04:53 PM (#12862) Subject: Juice of the Barley From: Wkailey Correction to foregoing: Juice of the Barley is in the database. The t__ and p__ words are "turf" and "primer." Primer makes sense, but turf makes no sense to me in this context. Can anyone explain it or suggest a better word? Also, the database has "danced 'round the floor with her slip of a boy," which is undoubtedly a better rendition of the third line of the song. However, I like my "in the corner blind drunk to be found" a lot better than their "in the corner was sure to be found." The latter version appears to be taken by the authors of the database from a cleaned-up version of the song that was sung when the Clancy Brothers appeared at Carnegie Hall. My version is from an earlier recording. |
22 Sep 97 - 05:06 PM (#12865) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Bob Landry I have the words to Juice of the Barley in an old Clancey Brothers songbook where they use the words "turf and primer". Couldn't figure it out either. Other lines are the same as Wkailey points out. For my contriution, I'll do an lod Newfie tune, The Liqour Book. I contributed the words in an earlier thread. |
22 Sep 97 - 05:22 PM (#12867) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice Wkailey, You got it in ahead of me.. I was going to do the Juice of the Barley next! I grew up listening to the Clancy bros. records, too. You left out the Gaelic in the chorus: "Singing banya na mo if an ganna, and the Juice of the Barley for me." That is the way the Clancys wrote it in their songbook from 1964. It is dog-eared from all my years of using it, and there are a few words here and there in songs that they sang differently on recordings. It makes sense to take turf to school if you want a fire in the stove to keep you warm. Possibly a typo on your part, but for accuracy's sake the priests are in the "vestry". Last verse:
Well from that day to this I have wandered alone, Alice Flynn in Montana |
22 Sep 97 - 05:35 PM (#12869) Subject: Juice From: Wkailey Thanks for the additional contributions relevant to this song, Alice and Bob! Songs like that are a treasure to be cherished, and it's always a pleasure to add to ones knowledge of their history and lyrics. The world would be a dreary place indeed without the Clancy Brothers! Who will take their place, I wonder? Alice, do you have a translation for the Irish words in the chorus? |
22 Sep 97 - 05:54 PM (#12874) Subject: Lyr Add: CANNED HEAT (Tommy Johnson) From: Jon W. My favorite from the blues: Canned Heat by Tommy Johnson. Canned Heat was wood alcohol mixed with wax, used for cooking fuel and by some to ingest when they couldn't get whiskey. My CD player is broke so I can't transcribe all the words but some follow: Cryin' Canned, Canned Heat mamma, Mamma sure Lord killin' me (3x)
Cryin' Mamma, mamma mamma, cryin' canned heat killing me (2x)
Cryin' woke up, up this mornin' cryin' canned heat all on my mind (2x) I had a friend at work, a talented musician I always wanted to get together with and learn from. But he died of alcoholism before we ever could. I think of him when I hear this song. |
22 Sep 97 - 05:56 PM (#12875) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice Wkailey, no I don't, but I think the correct spelling would look completely different in Gaelic. Maybe one of our Gaelic speaking members who cruise this site can be of help. I'd be interested to know the meaning. Alice |
22 Sep 97 - 05:59 PM (#12877) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Jon W. Speaking of Clancy brothers (& Tommy Makem), what about their song "The Parting Glass?" I've always interpreted it as the singer is dying from drink- "all the harm I ever did, alas it was to none but me." Am I way off base? |
22 Sep 97 - 06:48 PM (#12883) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca I'll stand corrected on Jack Radcliffe, as the correction makes more sense. I didn't record it, BTW, I learned it from a friend who told me it was formerly sung in New England. But it was definitely called "Jack Radcliffe", although there is no mention of his name in the song itself unless I am missing verses which is entirely possible. |
22 Sep 97 - 06:57 PM (#12885) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Catfeet Wkaily, What is the name of this fabulous book from the smithsonian that includes this version of Old Jack Sprat the Sailor Man? I learned this version at a chanty sing, and have been looking for it ever since, I'm eternally grateful to Tim Jacques for posting all the words, but your version is the one that I learned, and somehow, original always seems to have it's charms. Anyway, I'd be very interested in seeing if the book is still in print, and if it is avalilible. There should be an isbn number on the back of the book or on the copyright page. If you could include that in any post that replies to this one, it'd be much easier to track the book down. Thanks ahead of time for any answers, Catfeet |
22 Sep 97 - 07:16 PM (#12889) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: alison Hi It was perfectly normal to take a lump of turf to school to put on the fire, (it's pretty cold in Ireland in the winter,........and for that matter most of the time!!!) Just the same as all you Americans would have taken an apple for the teacher. (Or are THe Waltons and Little House on the Prairies not quite accurate??) The words at the start of the chorus are Ban-ya na mo if an gan-na, and the juice of the barley for me. as far as I know they are just gibberish Slainte alison |
22 Sep 97 - 07:21 PM (#12890) Subject: Lyr Add: THE BACKWOODSMAN From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca THE BACKWOODSMAN
Oh, well do I remember the year of forty-five.
I only hauled out one load. I should have hauled out more.
(Chorus) And my father followed after me. I heard the people say,
I met an old acquaintance. I dare not say his name.
By the time I got to Downyville, the night was far advanced. (Chorus again, repeat first verse)
Another song I learned by ear, apparently Canadian from Ontario. The place names are phonetic. |
23 Sep 97 - 12:25 AM (#12925) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice On to other chemicals. Alan Lomax writes this in his notes on "Willie the Weeper"... In this epoch, the snow-birds and hop-heads of the West had their own folky ballads, as optimistic and as unashamed as so many cowboy songs. "Take a Whiff on Me", "The Ballad of Cocaine Lil", and "Willie the Weeper", composed in the raggy style of those days, gave rise to a whole school of jazzy songs like "Minnie the Moocher" and " Calling the Vipers"...of "Willie the Weeper" he writes..."Robert Gordon found over thirty versions with a hundred different verses." Alice in Montana |
23 Sep 97 - 01:32 AM (#12932) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Backwoodsman: Probably should have been "I should have hauled out four," so as to prevent the repetition of "more". It's been some time -- years -- since I had reason to sing it. Speaking of cocaine songs, what was that one that Jackson Browne sang -- "You take Sally, and I'll take Sue."? |
23 Sep 97 - 06:50 AM (#12946) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Martin Ryan "Bainne na mbo is na ngamhna - and the juice of the barley for me." Basically, It means " Milk is for cows and for calves - whiskey for me!" "turf and primer", as Alison says, is payment and textbook. Regards p.s. "Go to Sea No More" is in the DT. |
23 Sep 97 - 09:58 AM (#12956) Subject: To Catfeet From: Wkailey What I got at the Smithsonian was a cassette tape, not a book; but it is a truly wonderful tape. It has dozens of good sea chanties on it. I will try to remember to get you a number or something off the tape when I'm at home, but I may not have it for a couple of days, because I have to go out of town. Best to send me a reminder via email. Email to wkailey@ball.com. Regards, Walt |
23 Sep 97 - 12:36 PM (#12968) Subject: Lyr Add: GOD DON'T LIKE IT (Blind Willie McTell) From: Jon W. Here's the lyrics of "God Don't Like It." This song is sung by an unidentified female vocalist accompanied by Blind Willie McTell on slide guitar and vocal harmony in the chorus. It is found on the Yazoo recording "Blind Willie McTell, 1929 - 1935(?)"
Some say they done took whiskey out, but you can have a little wine
Some of our members gets all a-drunk just to speak their sober mind
Some of our preachers just as bad as the members about this old moonshine
Now some of our children are naked, and their mothers never go
Now they say this yellow corn makes the best kind of shine
I know you don't like this song, just because I speak my mind |
23 Sep 97 - 03:01 PM (#12974) Subject: Go to sea & the DT From: Wkailey The version of this song in the DT is highly similar to the Smithsonian recording, though there are a few minor variances. The Calton Weaver (which I erroneously referred to as "Nancy Whiskey" above) is also in the DT. |
25 Sep 97 - 12:27 AM (#13109) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Barry Catfeet, Wkailey's version is almost the same as one of Hugill's, he also has Jack Ratcliff (no d) & Jack Rack in another, & gives it an alt. title of Shanghai Brown.Doerflinger's has Ben Breezer asthe victim landing in Liverpool or San Francisco Barry |
25 Sep 97 - 12:56 PM (#13175) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: leprechaun Jon W.: I suppose you could interpret The Parting Glass that way, or he could just be dying from anything, as we all are. Bob Dylan did a version of The Parting Glass also. Another song referring to drinking, but maybe not in a disparaging manner, is Carrickfergus. Come to think of it, I should post that on the men's drinking song thread. |
26 Sep 97 - 11:04 AM (#13237) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice Martin Ryan, Thank you, thank you for that translation of the chorus on The Juice of the Barley. I wanted to sing this with a group but held back because I couldn't be sure of the meaning, especially when the printed lyrics from the Clancy songbook had a phonetic version of the words rather than the real Gaelic spelling. Thanks. Alice in Montana |
26 Sep 97 - 02:07 PM (#13250) Subject: Lyr Add: GOOD NIGHT, AND GOD BE WITH YOU ALL From: Bruce "The Parting Glass" was originally a Scots song. Two early texts of the song are given below. Variants of the tune "Good night and God/joy go wi' you a'" go back to copies in the Skene and Guthrie MSS of the 17th century, and the tune is in Playford's 'Original Scotch Tunes,' 1700. Several other copies of the tune were published in Scotland prior to that in 'The Scots Musical Museum'. [Mitchell, Highland Fair, 1731; Oswald, CPC bk4, c 1752; McGibbon, 1755; Bremner's McGibbon, c 1768]
From 'Scots Musical Museum', #600 (1803/4)
The night is my departing night,
Earlier, c 1750, on a broadside (Roxburghe Ballads) we have:
Good Night, and God be with you all;
Now come is my departing time,
For here I grant some time I spent
Complementing I never lov'd,
I wish that I might longer stay,
The Friend's Reply.
Most loving friend, God be thy guide,
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26 Sep 97 - 03:06 PM (#13259) Subject: Lyr Add: COCAINE BLUES From: Whippoorwill Here's one I learned... or half-learned... from an old railroader. I always knew it as the Cocaine Blues, but it's not listed that way in DT. I'm fuzzy on the last couple of verses, but I'm sure some of you will set me straight. Late one night as I was makin' my rounds, Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun, Sittin' in a hop joint, a-smokin' my pill, "Yes, oh, yes, my name is Willie Lee, (Here's where Old-timer's Disease sets in. The next two lines are something about taking him to the county seat, followed by:) (Again the mind is gone, along with another two lines. Then:) (There may be, probably is, a final verse expounding a great moral lesson, but I couldn't swear to it. If anyone can fill in the blanks, I'd be grateful.) |
26 Sep 97 - 03:33 PM (#13264) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Bruce Under "The Parting Glass" I overlooked a copy of the Scots song in D. Herd's 'Scottish Songs', II, 225, 1776. This commences: O this is my departing time! The rest is almost identical to that in SMM #600.
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26 Sep 97 - 05:22 PM (#13269) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Nonie Rider You know, none of us has mentioned the obvious "bad living" warning song: "The House of the Rising Sun."
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27 Sep 97 - 01:42 AM (#13308) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Jackson Browne did a version of Cocaine Blues. As to God Don't Like It, if he didn't, then why did he turn water into wine at the Wedding of Cana (my favourite miracle) Bruce, those are lovely lyrics to The Parting Glass, which I shall save. |
27 Sep 97 - 12:15 PM (#13329) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice Bruce, thanks for those lyrics. A fine example of how the depth of meaning to lyrics is so evident as one traces back to the original composition. Alice in Montana |
30 Sep 97 - 11:36 AM (#13592) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Jon W. Tsk Tsk, Tim. The part God doesn't like (if I may be so bold) is illustrated in the 4th verse, repeated here so you don't have to scroll up:
Now some of our children are naked, and their mothers never go
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07 Mar 02 - 12:08 PM (#664254) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Some wonderful songs in this old thread of 1997. Music for one posted by Jon W, "Have Courage, My Boy, To Say No!," is given in Cheney, T. E., Mormon Songs From The Rocky Mountains, 1968 (1981), p. 149. Although there are similarities, the tune differs from Streets of Laredo (Bard of Armagh). |
07 Mar 02 - 01:04 PM (#664302) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Ebbie "My body's salivated"? Sounds like the folk process to me. Doesn't seem likely she's talking about drool. Anyone have an idea of what the word should be? Ebbie |
07 Mar 02 - 02:12 PM (#664347) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Don Firth On an evening in October, when I was far from sober I was wending my way home in tipsy pride When my knees began to flutter, so I sat down in the gutter And a pig came up and lay down by my side. Well, we talked about the weather, as friends do when they're together When a lady passing by was heard to say, "You can tell someone who boozes by the company he chooses." And the pig got up and slowly walked away. Don Firth |
07 Mar 02 - 02:55 PM (#664397) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice gee, a flash back to 1997, to see this thread revived. |
07 Mar 02 - 03:00 PM (#664406) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: MMario time flys, doesn't it? |
07 Mar 02 - 03:18 PM (#664425) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice yes, it flies, too. ;-) |
07 Mar 02 - 03:53 PM (#664469) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) The Bad Girl's Lament, in the Dt, has a different last verse than this one: Oh send for the young sailors to carry my coffin Oh send for a young man to sing me a song Get four pretty maidens with a bunch of red roses To place on my coffin as you carry me along. Like the version in the DT, this is an Acadian-Cajun song, from this website: Bad Girl |
07 Mar 02 - 04:29 PM (#664514) Subject: Lyr Add: LENA From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Alice? Wot means "salivated" in your original posting of Bad Girl? Here is one from American Memory. It had no title, so I have added "Lena." LENA Among the myriads of Gotham's fickle flappers, Saucy in manner and in feminist ruses schooled, Pursued each night by would-be trappers To elude their profane grasp, and leave 'em fooled Is little Lena Caffuzzi from Fordham Who, seeing a man, runs toward him. Yes, Lena she loves to lure 'em and leave 'em All trembling with anger and passion intense; She gets a huge thrill when she thus does deceive 'em Notwithstanding there's one she'll someday incense To the point where he'll grab her, and woe betide her! She'll find, soon enough, a stirring inside her. Then poor little Lena, lamenting her tricks Will find herself caught in one heck of a fix, And may her poor mother persuade to believe That she was immaculate when she did so conceive. But Mom will tell Pop, an excitable Wop, Upon whom this version wil be a sad flop. No, indeed, not her father, will the story mislead. He'll know, for he's wise, that some beau did the deed, And with a gun, and a knife, and a loud cry of rage, He'll start out at once on a bloody rampage. The while, the sad beau, discretely may soar On a plane that will take him to a far distant shore. So at last we see Lena in a squalid dark flat, Alone, all alone, with her loud squalling brat. While its daddy, still free with the boys "over there", Has forgotten long since the maiden fair, Poor, foolish, young Lena, who out for a lark, Was pursued and subdued in New York's Central Park. Supposedly written as a warning, by the brother-in-law of Mrs. Rose Ivanoff, about 1926. I found it by going to American Memory and typing in Bad Girl's Lament. |
07 Mar 02 - 08:34 PM (#664714) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Alice As I wrote, " My source for this song is FOLK SONGS OF NORTH AMERICA by Alan Lomax...". Salivated is what was published - I don't know if it was mis-heard or misprinted or if it is correct. It was collected by Alan Lomax from Texas Gladden, Salem, Virginia, 1941. Maybe someone else can enlighten us on "salivated". Alice |
08 Mar 02 - 12:01 PM (#665111) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Midchuck Don't forget this. I was about to type it and ran a search and found it in several old threads:
'Twas a cold winter's evening, the guests were all leaving,
"Her mother never told her the things a young girl should know. Peter. |
08 Mar 02 - 12:20 PM (#665125) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Fibula Mattock I thought a wee link to this thread BS: The PubWatch might be appropriate - no more lying in the gutter when you can be guided safely home by your watch after a night out on the beer. |
08 Mar 02 - 06:43 PM (#665428) Subject: Lyr Add: PLEASE SELL NO MORE DRINK TO MY FATHER From: Joe_F Please Sell No More Drink to My Father Please, sir, will you listen a moment? I've something important to say. My mother has sent you a message. Receive it in kindness, I pray. It's of father, poor father, I'm speaking. You know him: he's called "Ragged Gore" [?]. But we love him and hope we may save him If you promise to sell him no more. Please sell no more drink to my father: It makes him so strange and so wild! Heed the prayer of my heartbroken mother, And pity the poor drunkard's child. My father came home yestereven, Reeled home through the mud and the rain. He upset the lamp on our table And struck my sick mother again. Then all through the hours till the morning He lay on our cold kitchen floor, And this morning he's sick and he's sorry: Please promise to sell him no more. When sober, he loves us so dearly -- No father is kinder than he. He wishes so much to stop drinking, But this is the trouble, you see: He cannot resist the temptation He feels when he passes your door As he goes to his work in the morning. Please promise to sell him no more. -- On Elsa Lanchester, _Bawdy Cockney Songs_, Everest 2065 S.|m.m.m.m.r.d.|m.r........ d.|T.l.s.f.m.r.|m.......... S.|m.m.m.m.r.d.|m.r........ d.|T.l.s.f.L.T.|d.......... Td|r.s.s.s.4..l|m.r........ r.|r.l.l.l.s..l|t.......... Td|r.s.s.s.4..l|m.r........ r.|m.t.d |
08 Mar 02 - 07:42 PM (#665457) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Kenny B (inactive) How about the two grand ould ladies of the drink, Dicey Reilly And Katy Dailly
<a href="url here">clickable text here</a> ---Jeff (PA)--- |
08 Mar 02 - 09:58 PM (#665506) Subject: RE: straight & sober song circle From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Dicey Reilly (and other notable Reilly girls)- Type Reilly into Lyrics search. |