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Songs about rough folk women

21 May 05 - 10:19 PM (#1490390)
Subject: rough folk women
From: GUEST,I live for the smell of women

Folk tradition...

who's dirtiest..??


men or women..?????


who gets punished worst for lust in folk songs..?

men or women...?????????


22 May 05 - 01:21 PM (#1490624)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: mack/misophist

You might elaborate nyour first question. Back in the old days, nobody bathed that much. Is that what you're asking?


22 May 05 - 03:28 PM (#1490709)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Leadfingers

It proves that the women are worse than the men
If they go down to hell they get kicked out again

'The Devil and the Farmers Wife' - Unquote .


22 May 05 - 03:43 PM (#1490728)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Allen

The wife in the Devil and the Feathery Wife is dirtier....


22 May 05 - 03:56 PM (#1490734)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Big Al Whittle

Yes its a strange business, theres never alot of foreplay in these trad songs, not even with the handsome cabin boy. She wished the night were seven year long...then its straight onto a life of degradation and possibly murder

as you say the smell may have been a factor, the king's syph, the black death, the bubonic bum fever....who knows.

Actually I'm not sure would have fancied it


22 May 05 - 04:16 PM (#1490748)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Allen

Everyone stinking is such a misconception of the past.
Anyway, traditionaly bawdy songs are usualy witty rather than filthy.


23 May 05 - 09:45 AM (#1491248)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Joe_F

There is a lively tape, _The Bawdy Ladies' Book_, "songs of love and lust from a female perspective sung by Wild Rose: Anne Goodwin and Anabel Graetz with Linda Lombardi" (1986). Out of print, like many good things.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

||: Mens sana qui mal y pense. :||


23 May 05 - 11:42 AM (#1491313)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Avril Betts

Who are you calling rough ? - OK perhaps I lack a little polish and sophistication, but at one time El Greko invited me out - OK he did stand me up - the sod, but the thought (or lust) was there.


23 May 05 - 12:02 PM (#1491329)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST

Rough folk women have always got large breasts, not that I am complaining.


23 May 05 - 03:26 PM (#1491509)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Avril Betts

Most men don't complain about my 40DD breasts - only about having to undo all the hooks and eyes at the back.

I always fancied being one of those milkmaids that handsome young men are always drawing fine fiddles out of their rucksacks for. NNow if Oaklet is reading this . . . . .


23 May 05 - 05:29 PM (#1491558)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: LesB

Cushy Butterfield!


24 May 05 - 08:02 AM (#1491837)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Dead Horse

I have heard it said that Avril is forever being stood up, but invariably falls back down again.
It maybe the alcohol content or it maybe she is top heavy - who knows?


24 May 05 - 08:14 AM (#1491846)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Betty Noir

That Avril Betts is a slag


24 May 05 - 08:43 AM (#1491879)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Abby Sale

Here's a woman clearly rough but she's a minor character in the song:

I was layin' round town in a house of ill fame,
Laid up with a rough, tough hustlin' dame,
When a hop-headed pimp with his nose full of coke
Beat me outta that woman and left me stone broke.

"The Castration of the Strawberry Roan" Text A (Collected from Baxter Black)

Here's one roughish:

She was slick as oil on water,
I didn't know what she was about
        A-singing, way, Niagara,
        Below Niagara Falls.
'Til I missed my watch and wallet,
Then I popped her on the snout.
        A-singing, way, Niagara,
        Below Niagara Falls.

"The Buffalo Whore" (Below Niagara Falls)


Sweet Betsy is pretty rough but doesn't get punished. (I'm not sure what the question is, either. Or is it several questions.)

And a naughty woman who is quite punished for running away with a demon:

He strack the tapmast wi' his hand
The foremast wi' his knee
And he brake the gallant ship in twain
And sank her in the sea.

"The Daemon Lover/House Carpenter"
Child #243
(Note the two Child women cited at the top of this thread are congratulated, not punished for their roughness.)

And in real bawdry there are numerous women with surprisingly agile, gunshot-proof, nutcracker-strong, and etc. cunts. They gotta be considered fairly rough but are rarely punished for it. When they are, as in "The Great Wheel," the moral issue can be pretty questionable.


24 May 05 - 08:51 AM (#1491881)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: HipflaskAndy

'Sixteen sailors pulling on a string
She come down and she let 'em ALL in'
(Yarmouth Town)


24 May 05 - 09:53 AM (#1491927)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Julia

I love the ones where the girl is not necessarily rough, but clever
The Maid on the Shore, Lovely Joan, Sovay- they had to be a bit tough to do what they did, but came out "smelling like a rose"
Cheers- Julia


24 May 05 - 10:12 AM (#1491941)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Allen

There is also the Frankie Armstrong song about the crafty maid who makes her would-be-rapist promise to give her what lies between his legs, and it's not what you are thinking either.


24 May 05 - 11:00 AM (#1491978)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Betty Noir

That Avril Betts looks years younger without a bra ....... her 40DD's droop and drag all the winkles out of her face


24 May 05 - 01:59 PM (#1492116)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Joe Offer

Isn't Buffalo above Niagara Falls?
-Joe Offer-


25 May 05 - 10:30 AM (#1492852)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Abby Sale

No


25 May 05 - 10:34 AM (#1492854)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Blackcatter

If it was above, one would think it was in Canada.


25 May 05 - 10:40 AM (#1492857)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: John MacKenzie

The wine it was brought to the table
There were bottles for everyone
When I asked for the change of me guinea
She tipped me the verse of a song

This lady flew into a passion
And she placed both her hands on her hips
She said sailor you know now our fashion
Do you think you're on board of your ship.

so when you give them some money don't expect anything back.
Giok ¦¬]


25 May 05 - 11:06 AM (#1492877)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Ellenpoly

I have an irrational fear of Avril Betts



Whoops! Wrong thread!

;-D


25 May 05 - 11:31 AM (#1492892)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Betty Noir

Rest assured it is not irrational she is a frightful woman


26 May 05 - 03:59 AM (#1493434)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Raggytash

I notice that even Dave Bryant is not coming to defend Avril from the slating she is receiving from Betty Noir


26 May 05 - 04:26 PM (#1493825)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: PoppaGator

Let's see some "Member Photos" of the ladies on question ~ not just Avril, Betty too ~ and we'll judge for ourselves!


27 May 05 - 06:01 AM (#1494111)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Betty Noir

I am far too ladylike to go showing my image on the Internet for others to drool over, I'll leave such practices to tarts like Avril


27 May 05 - 10:17 AM (#1494233)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Dave Bryant

Avril and I are not on the best of terms at the moment - Essex Girl is seeing to that. My remarks about the top half of her belly dancing costume being made out of two dustbin lids didn't go down very well either.

Anyway what Betty has to say is substantially true. There are several problems with Avril going bra-less though - she ends up with a bald bit on the back of her head and either trips herself up or knocks herself out when she runs for a bus, or chases after a male motorist who looks like stopping.


27 May 05 - 04:49 PM (#1494565)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST

Upstream from Niagara Falls the river has two sides: one Canadian, and one Yank, on which sits the fair city of Buffalo.


27 May 05 - 05:28 PM (#1494589)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Bert

rough folk women - is there any other kind?

And just how does that song go? "and if a woman was singing this song, it would be twice as dirty and three times as long"


28 May 05 - 03:58 AM (#1494867)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Kaleea

notice it isn't "rough folk ladies." I've noticed that in most folk songs it is she-the fairer sex-who is murderd, done wrong, abandoned, maligned, etc.


28 May 05 - 01:01 PM (#1495023)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST,Art Thieme

Bessie Smith was the roughest and toughest---in her music and in real life. Wondrous music was made by her.

Her "Electric Chair Blues" is a wonderful song.

Verses like:

Judge, judge, good kind judge,
Send me to the 'lectric chair,
Judge, judge, good kind judge,
You can fry me 'cause I don't care,
I cut him with my razor,
I kicked him in the side,
Stood over him laughin',
While he wobbled 'round---and died!
Judge, judge, please Mr. Judge,
Send me to the 'lectric chair.

Art Thieme


05 Jun 05 - 04:47 PM (#1500707)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: GUEST

Linda Lombardi - isn't she the Page Three Girl who turned respectable actress (By this I mean she played a criminals wife in "The Bill")?

This will only mean something to people in the UK!

Is my memory failing or is Avril Betts actually a man who had a long running but spoof thread about the "folk establishment" ganging up on her or something?


05 Jun 05 - 05:33 PM (#1500734)
Subject: RE: rough folk women
From: Susanne (skw)

Avril Betts is definitely female, albeit fictitious.

Dave, you really ought to have that multiple persona syndrome (or whatever it's called) seen to. If this goes on you will be able to have a Mudcat gathering on your own before long (not that we'd let you!). Anyway, did Avril and Betty both come to the barbecue, and what happened?